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🏙️🌡️ Revisiting the 2nd ITW | Why and How to Re-Naturalize Schools – Mamen Artero 🎤

28/05/2026

Within the framework of the RE-ACT Schools Project – “Transformation of Schoolyards to Combat Climate Change Effects and Promote Healthy and Active Environments”, Mamen Artero delivered a presentation focused on the reasons and methods for re-naturalising schools.

📅 The presentation was delivered on 20 November 2025 in Mataró, during the thematic workshop sessions of the 2nd Interregional Thematic Workshop.

💡 Mamen explored how nature can be integrated into school spaces as both a climate-adaptation strategy and a pedagogical tool. She shared experiences from Playgrounds for Climate, presenting transformation processes, benefits, challenges and lessons learned from real projects.

📍 This contribution offered practical guidance and inspiration for future schoolyard transformations, reinforcing the social and environmental impact objectives of the project. 🌍💚

🎥 Watch the full presentation in the video below.