REPORT ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING 17th-19th September 2025: GreenME PROJECT

Once again, from 17th-19th September, ILS was represented by its researchers at this years’ 3rd General Assembly Meeting (GAM) of the GreenME project in Warsaw Poland. Kathrin Specht, Noriko Otsuka, Lizzy Moonga and XU, Shaojuan were in attendance.

The GreenME project is an EU Horizon project that aims to identify ways in which effective nature-based therapy and a broader green care framework can be scaled-up to improve adult mental health and wellbeing equity while contributing to multiple socio-ecological co-benefits.

The project is comprised of 7 partners countries -Sweden, Poland, Italy; Spain, Germany, UK and the US; and is structured into 6 work packages (WP). The ILS spearheads work package 5 which aim to:

• Develop co-creation methodology and methods for stakeholder workshops
• Establish a green care community for constant knowledge exchange
• Develop a pilot standardized training program for nature-based therapy providers informed by the latest evidence and knowledge produced by GreenME
• Develop a set of guidelines to enable the upscaling of nature-based therapies in a range of settings for each consortium country.

At the GAM, the ILS team presented the method they developed for the stakeholders’ co-creation workshop planned for November 2025. They also presented the first draft framework for national schemes and international Green Care guidelines, and led an interactive brainstorming session aimed at collecting perspectives from country partners on who a Green Care End user is, based on their Green Care country specific objectives. The 3 days GAM concluded with a nice excursion exploring local green spaces in Warsaw, putting theory into practice. Participants visited the Cooperative Urban Farm “Most”, the Open Jazdow Neighbourhood and the Warsaw Uprising Mound Park.

To know more about the GreenME project, you can follow this https://greenme-project.eu/