Training and capacity building
Arm your team with the skills to maximise your organisation's potential.
Skill up nature-based enterprises with our range of capacity building measures.
Our high impact training and capacity building services are tailored to different audiences:
Public sector organisations working at local, national or global scale:
Finance, business models and governance - using tools tried and tested with multiple end-users, we provide a range of practical, jargon-free training and capacity building solutions on the financing, business models and governance of nature-based solutions. From free online resources to once-off webinars or ongoing mentoring, contact us to find out what best suits your stage of development.
Nature-positive economy - Understand the growing momentum around the nature-positive economy and how to translate it into policy and practice in your context. Benchmark your knowledge and activities against key recommendations to understand where and how to improve,
Nature-based entrepreneurship strategies - nature-based enterprises offer much potential for a just transition to carbon neutral, nature positive economies. We have worked with cities to put in place a range of strategies to stimulate nature-based entrepreneurship from awareness raising to focused accelerator programmes.
Project coordinators and partners
Knowledge management and IPR: From protecting knowledge to maximizing impact through different exploitation routes, we provide a range of knowledge management and IPR training and capacity-building services for project partners developing new innovations.
Nature-based entrepreneurs and start-up’s
Business planning- our business planning workshops are designed to help you capture the vision, mission and ethos of your business using a “Theory of Change” Model. We work with you through each stage to develop a practical step by step plan to guide your growth and which you can adapt to present to funders. Our workshops are ideally delivered in person or potentially online
Business start up support programmes - we work with experts to upskill nature-based entrepreneurs in the following areas: idea generation, feasibility studies, market research, pitching, presentation and networking skills;
Business scaling: We are experts in helping you to scale your business and can provide workshops on scaling options for business ranging from franchising, licensing, creation of spin-offs to joint ventures. We can advise on finance options to help you grow such as crowd financing, grant funding, equity investment and venture capital;
Investment Readiness: We provide investment readiness training tailored to different types of investor needs from angel investors, impact investors to institutional investors
Cities, municipalities, development agencies and organisations implementing nature-based solutions
Project coordinators for Horizon Europe and other national and EU funding calls and projects
Nature-based innovators and entrepreneurs
Industry bodies
NGO’s
Who is this service for?
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Case studies
Burgas business model workshop and testimonial
Doing the Business Model Canvas workshop with Horizon Nua, helped change our way of thinking: we started to think a little bit more outside the box; to search for new approaches and ideas on how the park could be renovated and supported other than with the municipal budget. This means that through the activities in the park, financial income could be generated, which could later be used for the maintenance of the park in its further development. This was a stepping stone for our project”
Ivaylo Trendafilov, Chief Expert,
Burgas Municipality, Connecting Nature City, November 2019
Our work with Burgas Municipality
As a result of completing the workshop on Finance and Business Models with Horizon Nua, the city of Burgas is exploring a number of private sector financing options to co-fund the restoration of St Teresa’s Park located in the city centre. Discussions have opened with the Church which is sited right in the middle of the park to contribute some private funds towards the restoration works and other sources of private income generation to support the long term management of the park include plans to develop a co-working hub with outdoor campus similar to a co-working space in the US called Second Home.
Green4C entrepreneurship workshop
“Thank you so much Isobel for your contribution to the School, it was a truly inspiring seminar! We hope we will have the chance to meet again and learn more from you in the future”.
Giulia Corradini,
Green4C Summer School organiser
Our work with Green4C
As part of the first Green4C Summer School on Green Care Entrepreneurship, Horizon Nua was invited to deliver a workshop to course participants on business planning for nature-based enterprises. The summer school, held at the University of Padua in Italy, attracted course participants from across the globe with ideas for green care business ranging from social farming in Africa, to forest bathing in India, sustainable tourism in Guatemala to social agriculture with the homeless in Dublin.