{"id":4714,"date":"2022-12-30T17:36:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:55:06","slug":"green4c-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/portfolio\/green4c-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and social inclusion through the innovative use of natural resources<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The megatrends<\/strong> are clear: people living in Europe will be older, living in urban areas, threatened by climate change effects. Already today, air pollution represents a serious hazard with adverse consequences on human health and stress affects a significant part of the population, to the point that it has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as \u201cthe Health Epidemic of the 21st Century\u201d, while increased immigration is putting additional pressures on the EU\u2019s inclusion policies. Overall, these megatrends are reflected in increasing costs for the public welfare and healthcare sectors and in increasing risk of social exclusions and marginalization of vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Recent studies have shown that nature-based private-public partnerships such as social agriculture, urban green infrastructures and forest therapy are providing cost-effective solutions<\/strong> to the above-mentioned megatrends. These approaches are defined as \u201cGreen Care<\/strong>\u201d (GC), an emerging concept which sees the private sector providing health and social inclusion through the innovative use of natural resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, for GC initiatives to emerge, some conditions must be realized: there needs to be cooperation between the health and green sectors<\/strong>, which in turn requires research-business networks in this field; specific training on GC related subjects, which is currently not sufficiently provided by Higher Education Institutions, is necessary to mainstream the sector; and scientific knowledge should be well commercialized in order to favour the establishment of new consultancy services and\u00a0 GC start-ups.<\/p>\n

The Green4C project \u2013 which responds to the needs of a changing political and social economy, creating opportunities for new careers, fostering nature-based solutions and enabling marginalized people, through interdisciplinary learning and cross-sectors research-business cooperation \u2013 aims at increasing Europe\u2019s innovation capacity among universities and businesses by promoting green and natural approaches to health and social care, focusing on the countries of Italy, Romania, The Netherlands, Ireland and Austria.<\/p>\n

It will do so by:<\/p>\n