Curious about rewilding and wondering where to start? Join our pioneering free online rewilding course, which brings together practical insights from leading practitioners and academics across 20+ European countries. Accessible and interactive, it will equip you with the tools you need to start making a difference in your own field.
Want to turn your passion for nature into impact?
This is why this course should be part of your journey:
Clear, practical, and rooted in experience
Learn from those leading rewilding on the ground across Europe. This course offers new perspectives and practical tools for anyone working with land, water, or wildlife.
Be part of the future of conservation and learn how you can contribute
Rewilding complements more established methods of nature conservation. Learn to be an innovative thinker through this course, empowered by state-of-the-art rewilding knowledge.
Rewilding has something for everyone — this course does too
Whether your background is in ecology, law, communications, tourism, or something else, this comprehensive course provides content and tools to integrate rewilding into your field of expertise.
A unique and exciting opportunity
Today, we stand at a turning point. Rewilding gives us a unique and exciting opportunity to ensure nature recovery delivers game-changing impact. An opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with wild nature to improve our own health and well-being.
By creating vibrant and resilient ecosystems, we can tackle climate change, safeguard biodiversity, and breathe new life into landscapes across Europe. Rewilding offers hope of a world where people can thrive alongside healthy, resilient nature – if we act together, now.
Nelleke de Weerd
Empowering future rewilders
To scale up rewilding and the benefits it delivers as quickly as possible, we need to empower future rewilders. With this in mind, we are now offering you the opportunity to learn about rewilding through “Introduction to Rewilding” – a completely free, interactive course created by Rewilding Europe, hosted by Open University. It brings together insights from leading rewilding academics and practitioners across more than 20 European countries, making practical rewilding knowledge accessible to everyone.
Whether you’re an undergraduate, early-career or seasoned professional, nature enthusiast or someone considering a career change, this course will equip you with the knowledge and inspiration to start or advance your own rewilding journey.
What will you learn?
No prior knowledge is needed – just your passion and willingness to explore. The course is packed with clear, engaging, highly relevant content from the cutting-edge of rewilding theory and practice. Across eight modules, you will:
Discover why wilder nature is vital for both people and nature
Learn how rewilding works on land, in rivers, and in the sea
Explore inspiring examples grounded in real-life practice from across Europe
Develop your own personal rewilding action plan
As you explore Introduction to Rewilding in Europe, you will benefit from:
Interactive content
Read, watch, listen, and act as you learn about rewilding in Europe.
Flexible study
Learn at your own pace at times that suit you.
Real-world examples
Hear from the people rewilding on the ground and learn from their challenges, insights, and triumphs first-hand.
Recognition
Celebrate your progress with module badges and a certificate for completing the course, as proof of your growing expertise and rewilding commitment.
By the end of the course, you won’t just understand rewilding. You’ll be ready to make it happen!
Nelleke de Weerd
Join a growing movement
Every day, more and more people across Europe are stepping up to enable nature recovery. Not just because nature is amazing, but because rewilding can help us solve so many of our most pressing challenges.
All those involved with European rewilding are motivated by the conviction that giving nature the space and capacity to heal itself is the best way to simultaneously address climate change, enhance biodiversity, and deliver a sustainable and prosperous world for all.
Nelleke de Weerd
Co-creating a wilder Europe
Through this unique rewilding course, we aim to empower and inspire people across Europe with the practical knowledge, examples, and contacts to take their own rewilding actions – however large or small.
At the end of the course, you’ll create your own personal rewilding action plan — a hands-on tool to help turn your ideas and new-found knowledge into real steps forward. Guided by inspiring examples, you’ll define your focus and explore what you might need to get started or to take your rewilding ambitions to the next level.
Everyone has a role to play in the rewilding movement, regardless of age, nationality, or career. We invite you to take this course and help us co-create a wilder Europe together.
“Rewilding is growing at a phenomenal rate across Europe. Every day we’re asked ‘how can I start rewilding?’ The truth is, everyone can be part of the rewilding movement – from poets to town planners, divers to drivers, ecologists, anthropologists, and economists. We created this course to share our experience and showcase the best rewilding efforts across Europe, so that everyone has the information and inspiration to start rewilding.”
Amy Duthie
Head of Upscaling, Rewilding Europe
Transform your new-found knowledge into impact
Graduated from the course? Congratulations! You’re now equipped with fresh insights and tools to support rewilding in your own way. We invite you to stay connected, continue building your skills, and use what you’ve learned to drive real-world change. Take advantage of practical tools, community support, and opportunities to grow as a rewilding practitioner in your own field:
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