Archives des nature - Recetas https://www.recetasproject.eu/tag/nature Nature, Wellbeing, Connections in cities Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:25:16 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.recetasproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/cropped-RECETAS-logo-design-FINAL8-1-32x32.png Archives des nature - Recetas https://www.recetasproject.eu/tag/nature 32 32 RECETAS featured in a BBC article! https://www.recetasproject.eu/recetas-featured-in-a-bbc-article Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:52:06 +0000 https://www.recetasproject.eu/?p=3336 Bat-watching, beach explorations and ‘sniff’ walks: How nature can provide a tonic for loneliness, an article by Julia Hotz, on 27 December 2024. The importance of nature of one’s health: Interactions with nature, such as forest bathing, have been shown to improve both one’s mental and physical health : ‘lower blood pressure, a stabilised nervous […]

L’article RECETAS featured in a BBC article! est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]> Bat-watching, beach explorations and ‘sniff’ walks: How nature can provide a tonic for loneliness, an article by Julia Hotz, on 27 December 2024.

The importance of nature of one’s health:

Interactions with nature, such as forest bathing, have been shown to improve both one’s mental and physical health : ‘lower blood pressure, a stabilised nervous system, fewer stress hormones, boosted immune function, and reduced anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue’, the list of benefits is long, the results pointing in that direction are numerous.

 

From 2019… To now:
In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the RECETAS project started by taking this knowledge into account, with the intention of researching what would happened if it was combined to social connection in a group.

Now in its fourth year, RECETAS is currently running trials in our six pilots cities, advocating in favor of nature-based social prescriptions as a way to efficiently alleviate loneliness. The nature-based social prescriptions menus are co-created with participants to respect their desires, accordingly to local contexts.

Focus on one of our pilot cities: Melbourne
Nature helps us focus on the present but also has the capacity to help us remembering what is bright from our past, providing a sense of home when needed. This is particularly powerful in settings such as the one of our Melbourne pilot, where RECETAS researchers work LGBTI asylum seekers.

One of RECETAS participants spoke to Julia Hotz and said: « When the group was ending, I realised how much I was going to miss that routine of seeing the same people each week, just spending some time in nature, and feeling that sense of belonging […] It kind of killed my loneliness. »

 

L’article RECETAS featured in a BBC article! est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]> News – Article HaDEA https://www.recetasproject.eu/news-article-hadea Thu, 16 May 2024 15:20:59 +0000 https://www.recetasproject.eu/?p=3054 L’article News – Article HaDEA est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]>

RECETAS featured in HaDEA’s new article: « European Mental Health Awareness Week: Horizon 2020 promotes natural spaces in cities to combat loneliness »

In light of #EuropeanMentalHealthWeek , RECETAS has been featured in an article by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency!

Find out more about addressing loneliness through nature-based solutions with details about our pilot sites, fundings, our methodology, etc.

👉 Read the article!

ALL NEWS

L’article News – Article HaDEA est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]> Your 2024 resolution should be to seek nature spots in your city https://www.recetasproject.eu/seek-nature-spots-in-your-city Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:49:45 +0000 https://www.recetasproject.eu/?p=2970 Nature is being harnessed in the EU to improve the wellbeing of city dwellers, including people suffering from loneliness.

L’article Your 2024 resolution should be to seek nature spots in your city est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]>

Your 2024 resolution should be to seek nature spots in your city

Loneliness is a widespread, increasing health issue that affects all sorts of people, with specific groups being more affected, such as older adults. In urban areas, areas of nature like parks or community gardens can play a big role in helping city dwellers to improve their mental health.

The power of nature and social connections is the subject of an article in Horizon magazine, which uses RECETAS as good practice!

RECETAS and GoGreenRoutes, another project funded by the European Union’s H2020 programme, aim at studying these links between mental health and nature, and at providing adequate solutions.

  • The RECETAS Project is testing a method of nature-based social prescribing on voluntary groups of people to evaluate the benefits on mental health and alleviate loneliness
  • The GoGreenRoutes project is implementing nature-based solutions (green corridors, walkways, etc) to enhance the physical and mental health of urban residents.
These two projects tend to strengthen the evidence demonstrating that spending time in nature, in a group but also alone, can alleviate feelings of loneliness and beis positive on both physical and mental health. The article mentions a few examples of how the projects are being implemented and their results:

  • In Prague, where the RECETAS Project formed a group that has been helpful to people going through tough times.
  • In Lahti, where a forest walkway has been built to bring the benefits of nature to workers, patients and visitors.

–> Find out more: https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-magazine/health-powers-birdsong-breezes-and-bushes

Sources
ALL NEWS

L’article Your 2024 resolution should be to seek nature spots in your city est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]> Loneliness, societies and nature: Reflections of a changing world https://www.recetasproject.eu/workshop-in-barcelona-loneliness-societies-and-nature-reflections-of-a-changing-world Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:30:31 +0000 https://recetasproject.eu/?p=2572 In November 17, within the framework of the World Mental Health Day, UVic-UCC held a workshop on nature and loneliness

L’article Loneliness, societies and nature: Reflections of a changing world est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]>

RECETAS workshop in Barcelona
Loneliness, societies and nature: Reflections of a changing world

In November 17, within the framework of the activities around World Mental Health Day, Osonament in collaboration with UVic-UCC held the workshop « Loneliness, societies and nature: Reflections of a changing world ».

Laura Coll Planas, Laia Briones Buixassa and Aina Carbó Cardeña from UVic-UCC, as researchers of the European project RECETAS, carried out this workshop with participatory dynamics at the civic center of Can Pau Raba in Vic. In the first part, we reflected together about the loneliness that we feel and suffer. Questions such as « What is loneliness for you? » were answered through diverse and varied photographs that organizers brought. In the second part, we shared the ways we have to face loneliness, especially how nature helps us to feel less alone. In this dynamic, each participant explained the photographs they had previously brought to the workshop on these topics. It was very emotional to listen to the voices, experiences and opinions of each person who attended.

Finally, we explained that the RECETAS European Project has as its main objective to deal with loneliness by developing and testing social interventions based on nature following the Circle of Friends method originated in Finland. These interventions will be carried out in several cities around the world during 2023 such as Barcelona, Helsinki, Prague, Cuenca (Ecuador), Melbourne and Marseille and it is also planned to be carried out in Vic.

ALL NEWS

L’article Loneliness, societies and nature: Reflections of a changing world est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]> Nature in the city, an asset for health? Presentation of the survey results in Marseille https://www.recetasproject.eu/restitution-of-the-recetas-survey-in-marseille Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:21:15 +0000 https://recetasproject.eu/?p=2100 10th MAY 2022

L’article Nature in the city, an asset for health? Presentation of the survey results in Marseille est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]>

Nature in the city, an asset for health?

Presentation of the RECETAS survey results in Marseille

  • 10 MAY 2022
  • MARSEILLE (FRANCE)
  • ! Event in french only !

In Marseille, the concept of Nature-based social prescribing is very little known and even less used. However, with 10.000 hectares of natural areas and 57 kilometers of coastline, the city has a great potential that should be exploited!

In order to imagine how nature and health can interact in Marseille, AVITEM is organizing an event dedicated to this topic: Nature in the city, a health asset for all?

The day’s program will include speeches given by experts to better understand the concept, workshops to innovate and talks to think about Nature-based Solutions to improve the health of city dwellers in Marseille!

This event will be an opportunity to raise awareness among local actors about the benefits of nature on our physical, mental and social health, and the importance for the different entities to work together to implement Nature-based social prescribing.

It will also be an opportunity to present the results of the RECETAS survey, conducted in Marseille in November 2021 as part of the project, and also to present good practices implemented in other cities.

You speak French and you will be in Marseille on May 10th? Register now

ALL EVENTS

L’article Nature in the city, an asset for health? Presentation of the survey results in Marseille est apparu en premier sur Recetas.

]]>