Funding: Horizon Europe
Location: Nantes (France), Valencia (Spain), Rybnik (Poland), Berlin (Germany), Augsburg (Germany)
Year: 2026-2029
Each year, pollution claims thousands of lives across Europe, yet city administrations struggle with limited resources and the need to balance the multiple and uncertain effects of potential solutions.
PUREPOLIS is a new Horizon Europe project which aims to improve pollution management and protect urban health in cities across Europe by pioneering advanced tools that empower policymakers to take high-impact action. It will bring together 19 partners from around Europe to develop strategies for management of urban air, water, noise and soil pollution to combat urban pollution and its impacts on public health.
Approach
Healthy Cities’ role within the project will help plan and design urban environments that address urban pollution and improve people’s health, by:
- Facilitating co-creation workshops with city stakeholders and supporting citizen science with the Healthy Cities Generator, to identify user needs and ensure high levels of community participation.
- Providing policymakers with recommendations for city prescribing initiatives, positioning urban environments as health assets.
- Developing an enhanced data-driven tool for optimised healthy urban planning, integrating the Healthy Cities Generator with cities’ digital twins.
- Design, test and evaluate Dynamic Abatement Strategies to address urban pollution, considering real-time data and environmental conditions, and serve as a blueprint for sustainable, healthy cities across Europe.
Partners
- Helmholtz Munich, University of Twente, UMIT Tirol, UNINOVA, LUT University, University of Augsburg, Universidade de Vigo
- Leitat, Healthy Cities, The European Public Health Alliance, Tree Technology, Substitute ApS, UrbanThink, Euroquality
- Nantes Métropole, Valencia Innovation Capital, Rybnik
- Air Pays de la Loire, Acoucité
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