Nature-based Future Challenge: the winning team designed context-specific solutions

The jury commended Team Delta Harmonics for tackling the complex problems of the Bangladesh River Delta at the root by focusing on the upstream region. The team competed with ten other international student teams and won the first prize of € 9...

Nature-based Future Challenge: expert coaches help students to dream pragmatically

Industry experts coach each team competing in the Nature-based Future Challenge. Specialists in ecology, landscape architecture, international governance, and all the other aspects of nature-based solutions lend their insight to help the student te...

Nature-based Future Challenge: ‘The best teams tackle the problems at their source’

After the first selection moment, twenty student teams remain to compete in the Nature-based Future Challenge and envision a nature-positive future for the Bangladesh River Delta. Two members of the selection committee explain what set these teams ...

More than 700 students worldwide envision a nature-positive future for Bangladesh

Visualize a future in which nature and humans work together to mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. That is the Nature-based Future Challenge. Students from all over the world will compete with their vision for a nature-positive future for ...

New challenge has students design a ‘nature-based future’

During the Nature-Based Future Challenge, students learn that nature is key to a hopeful, green future. This international challenge has students collaborating in a pressure cooker to develop a future perspective for a delta. How can the flames be fanned?

The Netherlands in 2120

Climate change, urbanisation, biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather and increasing food production: these are just a few of the factors that help shape the spatial planning of the Netherlands. There appears to be a need to look to the future. With these ...