Event Description Nature-based solutions is a growing area for engineers in Ireland and presents its own challenges. Two years ago, Engineers Ireland together with the Irish Planning Institute, the Local Authority Waters Programme and the Department of Housing Local Government (DHLGH) and Heritage ran a webinar on “Urban planning and nature-based surface water management: from theory to practice” on November 9th, 2020. Over 500 people attended. A key recommendation from that webinar was the development of training for practitioners. Subsequent to that meeting, webinars have been organised targeting URDF, RRDF and Active Travel projects and are available at Nature-based Solutions - Local Authority Water Programme (lawaters.ie). Now, Engineers Ireland are working with partners on next steps, in support of water, climate and biodiversity objectives, to develop training which would be of direct relevance to engineers. To kick this off, Engineers Ireland intends to hold a free lunch time webinar on Thursday 13 October, focusing on some of the practical considerations to taking a nature-based approach when addressing surface water management from the engineers perspective.