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Urban Observatory for Multi-participatory Enhancement of Health and Wellbeing

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In favour of healthier urban environments

The EU-funded URBANOME project aims to build a common EU framework to comprehensively evaluate multi-sector policies in urban settings in support of the 'health in all policies' approach of the WHO. The project’s overall objective is to promote urban health, well-being and liveability by integrating health concerns in urban policies and the activities of urban citizens, on the basis of detailed and comprehensive evidence on environmental health determinants, their spatial distribution in the city and the social distribution of their impact among different population groups, accounting for different lifestyles and behaviours.

Objective

URBANOME aims at building a common EU Framework for evaluating comprehensively multi-sector policies in urban settings supporting the “Health in all Policies” approach of WHO. In this light the overall objective of URBANOME is to promote urban health, wellbeing and liveability, through systematically integrating health concerns in urban policies and the activities of urban citizens, on the basis of detailed and comprehensive evidence on environmental health determinants, the spatial distribution of these in the city, and the social distribution of their impact among different population groups, accounting for different life styles and behaviours. Integration of health concerns, environmental stressors and social equality in public and private activities help alleviate a wide range of contemporary urban challenges, specifically social cohesion and health inequality, and promote the transition of European cities to sustainable, climate proof, smart and inclusive urban economies.
URBANOME brings together the complete set of environmental, social, and functional features of a city in an integrative analytical framework that would facilitate the identification of the main determinants of urban health and wellbeing and support co-creation and testing of policies and precision interventions designed to improve urban health and wellbeing through Urban Living Labs.
The URBANOME approach will be applied through pilots built by the Urban Living Labs in Aarhus, Athens, Aberdeen, Madrid, Milan, Ljubljana, Stuttgart, Paris and Thessaloniki tackling various levels of environmental exposures, age-dependent susceptibility windows, inter-individual variability, gender differentiation of exposure, and socio-economic disparities. These will allow us to draw conclusions regarding the determinants of urban health and wellbeing that will be translated into evidence–based policy recommendations considering socio-economic and environmental factors leading to urban health inequalities.
URBANOME is part of the European Cluster on Urban Health which includes other research projects funded in the frame of the same call.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SC1-2020-Two-Stage-RTD

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

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ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
Net EU contribution
€ 752 500,00
Address
Kedea building, tritis septemvriou, aristotle university campus
546 36 Thessaloniki
Greece

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Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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