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.
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.
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.
The pathway includes the following three modules (free courses):
🚸 1. Streets for Kids: Urban Spaces for Children to Grow
Start at street level by exploring how public-space design, mobility, and accessibility can create safer and more inclusive environments for children and other urban residents.
🌳 2. Urban Green Infrastructure: Introduction
Expand to the city scale and learn how parks, trees, green corridors, and water systems can work together to support biodiversity, wellbeing, and climate resilience.
🌿 3. Bringing Urban Nature Into the Cities of Tomorrow
Explore how nature-based solutions, regenerative design, and New European Bauhaus principles can be integrated into future urban planning and development.
The Healthy Streets, Greener Cities, Nature for Tomorrow pathway offers a structured way to develop multidisciplinary urban skills without having to search for and compare disconnected courses yourself.
💡 You can complete the courses according to your own schedule, follow the suggested order, or begin with the topic most relevant to your work.
Register for free on EIT Campus to track your progress and earn a digital badge after completing the full pathway - click REGISTER below.