Continuing professional development courses

We are offering short courses compiled by leading researchers in the field of green-blue-grey infrastructure (GBGI).

Explore how GBGI can address environmental and societal challenges such as air pollution, biodiversity loss, carbon storage, flooding, mental health, noise and urban overheating.

Why take our courses

Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice: The courses equip participants with the knowledge and skills to design, monitor, and evaluate green-blue-grey infrastructure solutions for sustainable urban development.
Providing knowledge of ways to reduce climate change: Learn various green-blue-grey infrastructure types, their origins, and functionalities in reducing climate change
Gain insights into the latest advancements and techniques: Implementing, protecting, and conserving green-blue-grey infrastructure.
Flexible learning tailored to your schedule: There is no set schedule, so you can do these courses at a time that suits you.

Who should take our courses

Our short courses are designed for:

Local citizens committed to sustainability
Non-governmental organisations, municipalities, and private investors
Policymakers
Researchers and educators
Urban designers, architects, and contractors.

Available short courses

Each course takes 45–50 minutes to complete and you will receive a certificate of completion once successfully finished.

Each course has three sections; background, case studies and recommendations and further reading followed by quizzes.

Green Infrastructure for Air Pollution

Explore the physical and chemical processes affecting air pollution and what role nature based solutions have in mitigating this at micro and macro scales.

Green Infrastructure for Urban Cooling

Understand what causes urban heating and how nature based solutions can mitigate this.

Green Infrastructure for Surface Water Management

Understand the physical and chemical processes that govern water quality and quantity in urban environments, sensing techniques that can detect this and how to translate this data.

Green Infrastructure for Noise Mitigation

Explore the different types and metrics of urban noise and how nature based solutions can help mitigate this.

Green Infrastructure for Urban Biodiversity

Explore the biodiversity qualities of nature based solutions and urban greenspaces and the relationships between ecological processes, habitat types, locations and more.

Tower blocks in a city, viewed from nearby green fields

Green Infrastructure for Carbon Storage

Understand carbon and greenhouse gas budgets in terrestrial and aquatic systems and gain knowledge of how to quantify carbon stocks and sequestration.

Green Infrastructure for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Explore the relationships between nature based solutions and health and wellbeing and the methods that help measure individual health and quality of life to improve public health.