Overview
Creating healthier, greener, and more inclusive cities requires more than improving mobility. It demands an interdisciplinary approach that connects urban planning, public space design, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and community wellbeing. This Learning Pathway demonstrates how European policy priorities can be translated into practical knowledge and skills for professionals, policymakers, local authorities, social services, entrepreneurs, and anyone involved in shaping more sustainable communities. Through three short online courses, learners explore how people-centred street design, green infrastructure, and nature-based solutions work together to create climate-resilient, attractive, and inclusive cities.
Starting with child-friendly street design, the pathway expands to city-wide green infrastructure before exploring how urban nature can shape the cities of tomorrow. Along the way, learners develop practical knowledge to connect mobility, public space, environmental health, biodiversity, and urban planning into integrated solutions that improve liveability, strengthen climate resilience, and support healthier communities.
Potential careers
Urban planners, public space designers, sustainable mobility specialists, green infrastructure coordinators, climate adaptation officers, landscape and urban designers, community engagement practitioners, and urban innovation entrepreneurs. Learners may contribute to creating safer streets, expanding urban green networks, and implementing nature-based solutions that support climate-ready cities.
Pathway approach
Learners progress from people-centred public space design to climate adaptation through green infrastructure before exploring how nature-based solutions contribute to healthier, more resilient, and inclusive communities. The pathway demonstrates how interconnected challenges can be addressed through integrated approaches, creating a clear and practical learning journey that translates knowledge into real-world action.
Key skills you can develop through this pathway
- Improve urban liveability: Design safer, more accessible, and child-friendly public spaces.
- Strengthen climate resilience: Apply green infrastructure and nature-based solutions to address heat, flooding, and environmental stress.
- Support sustainable mobility: Reclaim streets for people and encourage active travel.
- Align with European priorities: Integrate New European Bauhaus principles of sustainability, inclusion, and quality of experience.
Courses (3)
The pathway includes the following three modules:
Course ･ Beginner ･ 0-4 hours ･ Free Streets for Kids: Urban Spaces for Children to grow (Urban Mobility)
Course ･ Beginner ･ 0-4 hours ･ Free Urban Green Infrastructure: Introduction (Urban Mobility)
Course ･ Intermediate ･ 4 - 8 hours ･ Free Bringing Urban Nature Into the Cities of Tomorrow (New European Bauhaus)