NBRACER at NetworkNature Annual Event 2025 – Choose Nature
On 16 September 2025, the NBRACER team participated in the NetworkNature Annual Event 2025 – “Choose Nature”, held in Brussels. This key gathering brought together a wide spectrum of stakeholders from across Europe to explore how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can help forge resilient economies and combat biodiversity loss.
A Gathering with Purpose
The theme “Choose Nature” underscored the urgency of aligning economic growth, human wellbeing, and ecological integrity. With biodiversity in decline and ecosystem functions under pressure, the event provided a platform to reflect on both the risks of inaction and the opportunities of acting now.
Through four thematic sessions, Work with and for nature, Trust nature and people, Invest in nature, and Partner with nature, speakers shared case studies, insights, and pathways forward. These conversations emphasised that NbS are not just a theoretical concept, but a practical means to deliver solutions across climate adaptation, sustainable urban development, finance, innovation, and wellbeing.
NBRACER’s Role: The NbS Fresco© & Collaboration
One of the highlights of the event for NBRACER was the presentation and prototype testing of the NbS Fresco©, an interactive workshop tool designed to help diverse actors understand and apply NbS in urban, rural, coastal, and marine landscapes. The tool aims to foster collaborative learning and to make NbS more accessible and actionable across different contexts. The feedback from Task Force members and partners has already started informing improvements with a final version expected early 2026.
Participating in the event also allowed NBRACER to engage directly with the NetworkNature Labs, other Horizon Europe projects, and stakeholders interested in peer-to-peer exchange, capacity building, data tools, and awareness raising. These interactions reaffirmed NBRACER’s commitment to supporting cross-project collaboration and ensuring that NbS knowledge is shared broadly beyond the project circle.
Looking Forward
As the world faces ecological and social challenges of increasing scale, the NBRACER project is more determined than ever to support pathways that integrate nature into decision making, finance, business, and everyday life. The momentum built at NN Choose Nature event will carry into developing the NbS Fresco to its final form, as well as promoting tools, partnerships, and dialogues that scale Nature-based Solutions across Europe and globally.
Together, we choose nature. Together, we scale impact.
