Healthy Boost
Cross-sectoral cooperation can boost health and wellbeing in the Baltic cities
The Healthy Boost project brings together fourteen partners representing different levels of governance within various sectors. Their aim is to improve the capacities of local authorities to enhance health and well-being of citizens through cross-sectoral cooperation.
What’s the problem and Healthy Boost solution?
The project addresses the transnational challenge of the health burden due to unhealthy lifestyles of the city residents, which cannot be solved by the current fragmented, incoherent urban policies. The project wants to contribute to the improved – more innovative, effective and integrated – cross-sectoral urban policies. Healthy Boost enables the participation of citizens in planning policies for health and wellbeing, improves cross-sectoral cooperation in cities of the Baltic Sea region to support city administration in the provision of health services. In addition, the project enhances the innovativeness of the cities‘ administration in Baltic Sea region to respond better to current and future complex challenges in the municipalities.
What will stay after the project is over?
The main output of Healthy Boost project is a model for effective cooperation for cross-sectoral urban policies for health and wellbeing developed and tested by nine cities in six countries. Improved after the feedback from different stakeholders, it shall serve other cities in more integrated future work.
Budgets
in numbers
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2.54MillionTotal
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1.90MillionErdf
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0.15MillionEni + Russia
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0.00MillionNorway
Highlights by mid-term
The project developed a model for cross-sectoral cooperation for health promotion. It was based on scientific literature research and complemented by a self- assessment in the partner cities of Poznan, Klaipeda, Jelgava, Tartu and Turku. The self-assessment gave information of a city’s institutional capacity to implement cross-sectoral cooperation from two points of view: the formal structures for the cooperation (strategies, processes, practices) and the way cooperation works. The project identified gaps in five strategic and operational domains of cooperation: risk identification, leadership, communication, coordination, motivation.
After the model was completed, the partner cities ran several pilots along the lines of the specific roadmaps that the city partners designed beforehand (to set scope, timing, goals, actors). For instance, Jelgava Local Municipality developed a pilot concerning the creation of eco-friendly and healthy catering services for schools. Pilots found suitable ways of working with the virtual reality tools, for instance to display cycling routes in Klaipėda old town.
Throughout the project implementation partners were paired with the objective of enhancing the transnational peer-learning experience. The pairs were the followings:
- City of Turku (FI) and the Association “Healthy cities, districts and villages” (RU)
- Jelgava Local Municipality (LV) and Suwalki Municipality (PL)
- City of Poznan (PL) and City of Helsinki (FI)
- Tartu City Government (EE) and Klaipeda City Public Health Bureau (LT)
Outputs
Project Stories
Partners
City of Turku
- TownTurku
- RegionVarsinais-Suomi
- CountryFinland
- RepresentativeMaarit Luukkaa
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Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
- TownHelsinki
- RegionHelsinki-Uusimaa
- CountryFinland
- RepresentativeArja Liinamo
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- E-Mail
- Web
SUCCEEDED by PP01 (01.03.2019) Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association
- TownTurku
- RegionVarsinais-Suomi
- CountryFinland
- RepresentativeMaarit Luukkaa
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Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
- TownKaunas
- RegionKauno apskritis
- CountryLithuania
- RepresentativeAgnė Slapšinskaitė
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Jelgava Local Municipality
- TownJelgava
- RegionRīga
- CountryLatvia
- RepresentativeAnita Skutane
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- E-Mail
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Riga Stradiņš University
- TownRiga
- RegionRīga
- CountryLatvia
- RepresentativeAnita Villeruša
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- E-Mail
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City of Poznań
- TownPoznań
- RegionMiasto Poznań
- CountryPoland
- RepresentativeZuzanna Kwiatkowska
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- E-Mail
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Suwalki Municipality
- TownSUWAŁKI
- RegionSuwalski
- CountryPoland
- RepresentativeEmil Sieńko
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- E-Mail
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Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
- TownLodz
- RegionMiasto Łódź
- CountryPoland
- RepresentativePiotr Sakowski
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Västerbotten County Council
- TownUm eå
- RegionVästerbottens län
- CountrySweden
- RepresentativeAnna Nordström
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- E-Mail
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Association "Healthy cities, districts and villages"
- TownCherepovets
- RegionVologda Oblast
- CountryRussian Federation
- RepresentativeTatiana Shestakova
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Science Park Tehnopol
- TownTallinn
- RegionPõhja-Eesti
- CountryEstonia
- RepresentativePiret Hirv
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Tartu City Government
- TownTartu
- RegionLääne-Eesti
- CountryEstonia
- RepresentativePiret Väljaots
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- E-Mail
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City of Helsinki
- TownHelsinki
- RegionHelsinki-Uusimaa
- CountryFinland
- RepresentativeMinna Kaattari
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- E-Mail
- Web
Klaipeda City Public Health Bureau
- TownKlaipeda
- RegionKlaipėdos apskritis
- CountryLithuania
- RepresentativeLaura Kubiliutė
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- E-Mail
- Web
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Project managerAdham MaharramliCity of Turku
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Legal representativeBjörn GrönholmCity of Turku
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Financial managerJussi VälimäkiCity of Turku
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Communication managerLaura LuukkonenCity of Turku