Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association

20/02/2019

What are the factors important for cross-sectoral cooperation, how to share the knowledge with people from different sectors or how to motivate your team and stakeholders to engage in such a collaboration? All this and more has been discussed at the co-creation workshop of the Interreg BSR project Healthy Boost!
The project started in January this year and over the course of 2,5 years will develop in a participatory way and pilot the model for cross-sectoral cooperation.

30/01/2019

Greetings from Rostock where we learned more about how to lead a transnational project succesfully! Healthy Boost is the biggest project so far in the history of Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association and we are very excited. The main objective of the project is to make urban policies for health more innovative, more effective and more integrated. How? The key words are community participation and cross-sectoral cooperation.

15/01/2019

Today is a happy day for the public health community in the Baltic Sea Region - the project is launching its networking platform - Better Prevention! Intervention model, tools, stories, contacts to the colleagues from other countries and other sectors - all this, open and free at www.betterprevention.eu
Welcome!

14/11/2018

MUCH MORE project video clip was launched at the Programme Annual Event today in Turku. The link to the video is in the comment :)

The MUCH MORE project's video clip has been launched today at the Programme Annual Event in Turku. Positive comments like ”It was an absolute pleasure to watch that video, thank you.” were received. You can find the link to the video in the comment 🙂

09/10/2018

The delegates of the WHO International Healthy Cities Conference in Belfast were asked to describe what Healthy Cities mean to them. WHO prepared this wonderful movie:

09/10/2018

The WHO European Healthy Cities Network officially adopted the Belfast Charter for Healthy Cities on 4 October 2018, at the conclusion of the 4-day International Healthy Cities Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The Charter ushers in Phase VII of action for the Network, spanning 2019–2024. It builds on the political vision and framework established by the Copenhagen Consensus of Mayors, adopted earlier this year.

The WHO European Healthy Cities Network officially adopted the Belfast Charter for Healthy Cities at the conclusion of the International Healthy Cities Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The Charter ushers in a new phase of action for the Network, committing members to fosterin...

08/10/2018

Iina Lenz from BRHCA presented the MUCH MORE project last week in Belfast at the WHO Healthy Cities conference. Learn about the MUCH MORE experience in engaging middle-aged men with past addition problem on the project website: www.projectmuchmore.weebly.com

​There was a crowd of people from all round the world discussing and learning about the projects and achievements of participating associations, organizations and cities, which are presented in...

04/10/2018

Iina Lenz from Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association presented today the MUCH MORE project at thw conference. Participation and inclusion are key topics of the Healthy Cities and every example of reaching out to vulnerable groups is of interest.

01/10/2018

The Association is present at the WHO Healthy Cities conference in Belfast, celebrating 30 years of . On Monday first out of three presentations was delivered - introducing our HEAT project, and exploring how increased biking improves health and contributes to prosperity.

19/09/2018

Our EmpowerKids project presented today at the ESI Funds for Health eHealth workshop im Budapest. What was challenging, what was rewarding and how the EmpowerKids Tool serves the needs of the users - children and professionals and how the game can be used by the other organizations? Karolina Mackiewicz from BRHCA was sharing the experience from
implementing this ’s.