In-Habit

IN-HABIT is an EU Horizon 2020 project that aims to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing (IHW) in peripheral small and medium size cities (SMSCs). The project will focus on Cordoba (Spain), Riga (Latvia), Lucca (Italy), and Nitra (Slovakia), four SMSCs located in the Southern, Northern and Eastern peripheries of Europe and with populations ranging from to inhabitants. In each city, the project will mobilise existing undervalued resources (culture, food, human-animal bonds and environment) to increase IHW, with a focus on gender and diversity. The integrated approach will combine technological, digital, nature-based, cultural, and social innovations in selected urban public spaces. These solutions will be co-designed, co-deployed and co-managed with and by local stakeholders. IN-HABIT will focus its actions on underserved areas and vulnerable target groups within each city, and on the integration of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ visionary solutions articulated around heritage and culture (as a nexus for inclusive societies), food (nurturing daily healthier lifestyles), animals (human-animal bonds as new relational urban goods) and art and environment (to connect places and people). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869227.