Who can get involved?
All parts of a university have a role to play, whether you are a student, researcher, member of staff or faculty. Find out about our Student Ambassadors programme, network with researchers working on Nature Positive themes, and share resources with staff tackling their impacts on nature in our global community of institutions.
Explore more ways to get involved
Student Ambassadors
We are developing a thriving Student Ambassadors programme, empowering students to take action for nature on their campuses towards Nature Positive and share experiences and resources with other students across the world. You can connect with us directly as a student, or as part of a team at your institution.
2024 Webinar series
The 2024 Nature Positive Universities webinar series was a series of six webinars for members of the NPU network to learn more about the work member institutions have been undertaking in several key areas of biodiversity action, and take inspiration from their work.
All webinars in this series have now taken place and can be viewed on our Youtube channel.
University Staff
The staff responsible for managing university grounds and facilities, estates and sustainability teams, procurement and catering all have an important role to play in addressing an institution’s impacts on nature. A working group with representatives at all levels and including management, academic experts and students is likely to be the best way to achieve long lasting change. Visit our resources page to see the latest tools and guidance to help you on your journey.
Collaborate with us
We are interested to link up with researchers, higher education, sustainability and youth networks to help scale our impact and explore new approaches to tackling shared problems. We are establishing Regional Hubs to provide support and develop communities of institutions working together to overcome common challenges. Please contact us to find your nearest Hub or to explore collaborations.
‘Staff Champions’ is a social media series by Nature Positive Universities which aims to honour those who go above and beyond in their work towards a nature positive goal. Through this series, we will showcase individuals from different institutions around the world and celebrate their amazing work.
NPU has partnered with the Campus Biodiversity Network (CBN) to help institutions share their campus biodiversity observations through the community-science platform iNaturalist.
By creating a project for your university under the CBN, all the species recorded within your campus boundaries (past and present) will be collated together, allowing you and others to see what biodiversity is found on your campus and at other participating institutions. Such a project can offer an initial snapshot of the kinds of nature that exists on your campus, as a baseline (along with other measures) for your university’s campus biodiversity.
Members Map
The grey dots on the map represent people from universities that are part of the Nature Positive Universities network. These are people from across universities – students, researchers, staff and senior management who have signed up to be part of our community.
Please contact us to connect with other members of your organisation who are part of the network. (Please note that pledges take a day or so to appear on the map.)
Universities who's senior management have taken the nature positive pledge are highlighted in blue.
Universities with student ambassadors are circled in orange.
Resources
We are developing tools and guidance for each stage of the Nature Positive Pledge. We will provide links to all reports and documentation here as we develop them. We encourage you to make the Pledge and join the other Founding universities who are starting this journey. We would love to hear how you have approached each aspect of the Pledge so we can share it with our wider network and inspire change.
