It is clear that current approaches to achieving environmental sustainability and addressing climate change are not achieving change fast enough. Whilst a good first step, we need bolder approaches to tackling Europe’s environmental and climate challenges. Biomimicry offers a bold approach, one based on 3.8 billion years of research conducted by nature.

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BioLearn II helps young people think about what sort of future they would like. How can they contribute to that future? Can it become reality? BioLearn II provides pupils with the core competences to observe and question the natural world, to understand how nature provides lessons for humans to live sustainability, and encourage pupils to become curious as to how they can make a contribution. Critically, biomimicry offer a hopeful set of practices for a better and sustainable future, not the doom, gloom limited vision offered by many education programmes.

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BioLearn II wants to deliver learning which can tangibly contribute to schools supporting a more sustainable Europe. We want to use biomimicry as a uniquely valuable pedagogical teaching practice because of its dramatic potential to engage students’ interests and generate excitement. No subject can be taught successfully if it doesn’t generate sufficient student interest. Because student interest is a pre-requisite to learning, teacher pedagogies must be evaluated with this all important criterion in mind. Fortunately, biomimicry education has a track record of success in generating student interest, as well as a strong theoretical foundation to explain its merit.