Building Healthy Communities

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Health is important for the wellbeing of individuals and society, but a healthy population is also a prerequisite for economic productivity and prosperity. The Lisbon strategy underlines the importance of health as a key factor for economic growth. However there is a limited awareness of the contributions that a "healthy" urban policy can make to tackle challenges in health.

Partners

LEAD PARTNER : Turin - Italy
  • Lecce - Italy
  • Amaroussion - Greece
  • Bacau - Romania
  • Baia Mare - Romania
  • Lodz
  • Lidingo - Sweden
  • Barnsley
  • Belfast
  • Madrid - Spain

Timeline

Project launch

Project completed

Stories

Articles

  • The Power of Investment in Small Cities: Keeping Residents and Attracting New Talent

    Small cities across Europe are at a crossroads. Many are seeing young people leave for larger urban centers, chasing better job opportunities and lifestyles. This phenomenon, known as urban shrinkage

    Krešimir Grubić

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  • Municipality of Vratsa organized the third ULG meeting under the "BiodiverCity" project

    On 11.11.2024, the third meeting of the URBACT local group was held in the Municipality of Vratsa within "BiodiverCity: Communitybased approaches to foster urban biodiversity" project. The purpose of

    András Merza

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  • Participants in URBACT Campus Germany, Leipzig

    URBACT Campus Deutschland: Auf dem Weg zur Umsetzung der Integrierten Handlungskonzepte

    Wo stehen die aktuellen URBACT-Städte der Aktionaplanungsnetzwerke mit ihren Integrierten Handlungskonzepten (Integrated Action Plan, IAP)? Wie können sie ihre Maßnahmen weiter ausdefinieren und

    Heike Mages

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    Preserve, Contain, Improve: Towards Integrative Policies For Urban Growth Management

    The consequences of the unleashed urbanization process before the real estate crisis are today very explicit on the building stock as well as on the spatial configuration of cities. As for the

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