Project Details

Urban Health aims to create healthy and equitable living conditions in cities. Despite existing knowledge and strategies, in practice there are often implementation deficits in health-promoting urban development that need to be overcome. Old industrial areas in particular, which are affected by social inequalities, face major challenges that manifest themselves, for example, in unequal health opportunities, poor environmental quality and a lack of social participation. At the same time, these urban areas also offer potential for socio-ecological transformation and have extensive experience in overcoming various challenges.

The experimental spaces project investigates barriers to implementation in urban neighborhoods affected by environmental injustice and tests innovative methods for implementing technical and social innovations for socio-ecological transformation. A central component is the integration of transdisciplinary and participatory cooperation, in which various actors from science, practice and the population work together on the development and implementation of measures. The aim is to derive concrete changes in funding frameworks, legal frameworks and local work processes to promote environmental justice. The focus is on climate adaptation strategies and the expansion of active mobility in selected urban districts in the state of Bremen and the Ruhr region.

The three-year project is being implemented in collaboration with the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy gGmbH, the ILS - Institute for Regional and Urban Development Research, the State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony Bremen e.V. and the North Rhine-Westphalia State Health Center. The team from the Department of Social Epidemiology at IPP is contributing its expertise in environmental and climate justice and the promotion of active mobility and is integrating elements of a health equity impact assessment into the process and outcome evaluation in the project. Together with LVG & AFS, IPP is responsible for project implementation in the state of Bremen.