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Creating healthy living conditions in cities – that is the goal of the InnovationsCommunity Urban Health (ICUH). This large-scale transfer project supports innovative solutions for health-promoting, equitable, and heat-adapted urban development.
It is obvious to many that cities must adapt to new situations due to advancing climate change and that creative measures are needed to protect against heat. However, there are often obstacles to implementing such measures.
The InnovationsCommunity Urban Health therefore focuses on the question of why scientific findings and established principles such as environmental justice, sustainability, and health-promoting urban development are often not put into practice. It is for this reason that science and industry are to work together in real-world experiments and implementation-oriented projects to test innovative approaches that can overcome obstacles and at the same time contribute to a socio-ecological transformation.
Call for Ideas for Shaping Heat-Adapted Urban Development
In order to find suitable partners, the project team has published its first call for ideas: We are looking for innovative, creative, and practical approaches to health-promoting, equitable, and heat-adapted urban development. Funding will be provided to networks from academia and industry in the State of Bremen or the Ruhr region.
The Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research is further expanding its research and transfer activities in the field of environmental and climate justice and health-promoting urban development with the joint ICUH project: “The InnovationsCommunity Urban Health provides an opportunity to develop and test social innovations in order to help shape healthy and equitable cities for all and achieve greater environmental justice,” explains Professor Gabriele Bolte, Managing Director of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen. “In order for the socio-ecological transformation to succeed, it is important to reduce social inequalities in health.”
A total of around three million euros in project funding will be available for innovative solutions within the framework of the ICUH over the next three years. The call focusing on climate justice and heat-adapted urban development will be followed by a second call focusing on the promotion of active mobility.
"With our call for ideas, we invite everyone to contribute their suggestions and become part of the InnovationsCommunity Urban Health. Together with strong partners from the fields of research and practice, we offer a unique platform for exchanging ideas, developing solutions, and implementing them. Applicants will benefit from valuable networks, practical expertise, and the opportunity to turn their ideas into reality and overcome existing barriers to implementation of a socio-ecological transformation," says Thomas Altgeld, Managing Director of the Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen Bremen e. V., a non-profit professional association for health promotion and prevention.
InnovationsCommunity Urban Health in the State of Bremen and the Ruhr Area
ICUH will receive a total of five million euros in funding from 2025 to 2028 as part of the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space's (BMFTR) DATIpilot initiative. ICUH was selected from almost 500 applications from across Germany and is one of only 20 initiatives nationwide to receive funding, together with another project in Bremen. The joint project is being implemented in the State of Bremen by the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen and Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen Bremen e. V. (LVG & AFS). The cooperating partners in the Ruhr area are the Bochum University of Applied Sciences (Department of Health Sciences), the TU Dortmund University (Urban and Regional Planning), the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and the NRW Centre for Health.
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte
Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP)
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-68820
Email: gabriele.bolte@uni-bremen.de
Dirk Gansefort
Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen Bremen e.V.
Phone: +49 511 3881189-303
Email: dirk.gansefort@gesundheit-nds-hb.de
https://urbanhealth-digispace.de/call-for-ideas/
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