As part of the course Urban ecosystems and nature-based solutions the students of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Urban Climate and Sustainability (Murcs) spent two weeks in Germany in the spring of 2023, as well and going on excursions to Helsinki, Tampere and Turku in Finland. Throughout these visits one central task of the students was to make observations of good examples that could be used in pilot cases of the ERDF project Pilot Green, of which LAB University of Applied Sciences is a partner.