Innovation Labs

Innovation labs are the heart of NATURANCE. They are places for experimental, disruptive innovation and deep-learning which bring together cross-disciplinary and -functional expertise to create new products or services.

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Exploring ideas through Innovation Labs

Innovation Labs are collaborative spaces designed to boost Nature-based insurance solutions. These labs bring together experts from different sectors to co-create climate adaptation financing pathways. By fostering experimentation, dialogue and cross-industry sharing, the format allows participants to challenge dominant and business-as-usual models and trigger societal transformation. A key success factor is ensuring all voices are heard and diverse knowledge is taken into account. The Nature Labs follow good governance principles, promoting diversity, participation and high-quality decision-making.

Explore the Lab

Between April 2023 and January 2026, Naturance is conducting 9 Innovation Labs. The main outcomes of the labs are available in the related sections.

Reflecting Nature-based Solutions’ background

Ecosystem-based approaches as NbS, though cost-effective and having multiple benefits, are systemically not accounted for their true social value, distorting the market and ensuring insufficient level of protection. A nature based insurance solution is an insurance framework that takes into account the financial value of a natural asset and can create incentives for their protection.

To unlock the full potential of nature-based solutions, NATURANCE addresses challenges in financing, insurance, governance, investment and equity. With this wide-range scope, in order to represent the true scale of the operative ecosystem, Innovation Labs engage with actors from NbS networks, local governments, insurers, researchers, knowledge brokers and stakeholders.