GreenME is a partnership project to advance green care in Europe and improve mental health equity. Green care leverages the connection between nature and health to help people in a structured, meaningful way.
About the project
GreenME is an EU-funded Horizon project in partnership with Salford University, Kent University and Kent MIND in the UK. The project aims to identify ways to scale up effective nature-based therapy and a broader green care framework to improve adult mental health and wellbeing equity while contributing to multiple socio-ecological co-benefits.
Green care is a scale that can include elements of the following:
- Nature-in-everyday-life, e.g. the existence of green and blue infrastructure for viewing and walking
- Nature-based health promotion, the promotion of active interaction with nature, such as gardening and conservation
- Nature-based therapy - the provision of treatment for individual patients
Our role in the GreenME project is to help gather case studies to provide evidence of Green Care interventions and deliver Online Training Resources for Nature-based therapy practitioners. Social Farms & Gardens member Clynfyw Care Farm with Tonic Surf will be providing an in-depth case study, along with Northern Roots in Oldham.
Resources
Read more about the GreenME project > (external link)
Read the GreenME project newsletter > (external link)
Subscribe to GreenME project newsletters > (external link)
Funders
Funded by Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation.
Contact
If you'd like to get involved or know more about our work across Wales, please email [email protected]