PUREPOLIS
Funding: Horizon EuropeLocation: 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 […]
HCG€: valuing economic impact
Year: 2024 Co-funded by EIT Urban Mobility, €VALUE (HCG€) is on a mission to understand the economic impact of health-focused urban planning. This year-long initiative promises to help cities value health-promoting urban design by discovering just how much they can save on healthcare by making changes to the built environment. For the next year, the […]
HORUS: Health Outcomes in Raised Urban Settings
Horizon Europe funding Year: 2023 – 2026 Involved partners: University of Valencia (Polibienestar research institute), University of Rijeka Medical Faculty, Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Bax & Company (Healthy Cities), Polytechnic University of Valencia, Kveloce, Fisabio (Fundaicón para lel fomento de la investigación sanitaria y biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana) This European project aims to […]
Healthy Places Framework – Part 2
Client: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities, UK Year: 2022 Drawing on previous research and stakeholder consultation (Systematic review of existing tools and guidelines in the United Kingdom), a prototype Healthy Places Framework was built. The Framework is an assessment tool, enabling local communities and authorities to assess the health impact of their place. The […]
HCG Beta version
Client: URBACT Year: 2022 The development of the Beta version of the Healthy Cities Generator tool took place in the context of the European URBACT Healthy Cities project. The new version incorporated several improvements, including: Separate access to projects and possibility to save data to individual accounts. New Health entry point: by choosing the health […]
HCG Conceptualisation
Client: URBACT Year: 2021 The initial online development of the health impact assessment tool Healthy Cities Generator took place in the context of the European URBACT Healthy Cities project. Based on the knowledge acquired in the previous research projects on the relationship between urban environment and health, as well as findings from the review of […]
Review of tools
Client: Diputació de Barcelona Year: 2021 Research, review, and comparison of the most relevant existing european tools for incorporating health into urban environments, with the following objectives: Analyse user profiles, strengths and weaknesses, and the functionalities/features offered by existing tools Identify useful features and functionalities for the new tool Position the new tool in the […]
URBACT Healthy Cities
Client: ERDF-URBACT Location: EU Year: 2019-2022 This Action Planning network aims to deepen the relationship between health and the urban environment, planning actions that focus on improving the population’s health, while developing a rigorous health impact assessment around it. Urban Planning can become a health generator on many grounds. This partnership reflects the multiplicity of […]
