INHERIT - Exploring joint solutions for healthy and sustainable lifestyles
The CSCP has just kicked off its work on the new project INHERIT. The 18-partner, 4-year Horizon 2020 research project will examine the health and environmental implications of our living, moving and consuming patterns.
The new EU-funded H2020 project – Intersectoral Health and Environment Research for Innovation (INHERIT) – brings together experts from the health, environment and other sectors, including technology, to investigate how to ensure environmental sustainability and improve health equity and well-being. The goal: to see how we can modify our lifestyles to simultaneously protect the environment and our health.
Our current lifestyles, characterized by ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ models of economic growth, are damaging the environment and our health. The proportion of adults in EU Member States that are considered to be overweight or obese range between 37.0 % (Italy) and 56.7 % (UK) for women and between 51.0 % (France) and 69.3 % (Malta) for men. A report released in the UK last week sets out that around 40,000 of deaths in the country per year are attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution, which has also been related to cancer, asthma, stroke and heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and changes linked to dementia.
Experts will identify effective inter-sectoral policies, interventions and innovations that encourage individuals and communities across Europe to lead healthier and more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. The research will focus on the areas of living (housing, the built environment), moving (active travel) and consuming (food, nutrition, eating habits). It will identify promising practices, test and evaluate pilot activities, roll-out models of good practice, evaluate them on (cost) effectiveness and support decision makers in efforts to strengthen well-being and environmental sustainability.
The CSCP will contribute to the project with its expertise in impact areas of and promising practices for sustainable lifestyles and will lead a foresight process on ideal futures for sustainable and healthy lifestyles in 2030.
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ABOUT INHERIT:
INHERIT is about defining effective inter-sectoral policies that promote better health and greater well-being across social gradients by looking at key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, moving and consuming. INHERIT aims to identify and promote linkages that support greater inter-sectoral cooperation in order to address health, climate and environmental issues in a comprehensive and positive scenario-oriented manner for a more sustainable future. INHERIT receives funding (5,952,902.50 EUR) from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 667364. INHERIT was launched in January 2016 and will run until December 2019.
The following Institutions are involved in INHERIT:
EuroHealthNet, the European Partnership for improving health, equity and wellbeing
Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
University College London (UCL) Health Equity Institute
Institute of Preventative Medicine Environmental and Occupational Health (PROLEPSIS)
University of Exeter Medical School, European Centre for Environment and Human Health (UNEXE)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management (NTNU)
Riga City Council, Housing, Environment and Welfare Department (RIGA)
Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
Swedish Public Health Agency (FoHM)
National Institute of Public Health Macedonia (IJZRM)
Basque Research Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)
Univerzita Karlova Pare (CUNI), Environment
University of Alcala (UAH)
Revolve Media (REVOLVE)
Philips Electronics Netherlands (PHILIPS)
Flemish Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (VIGeZ)
Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
For more information please contact:
Rosa Strube • Project manager
+49 (202) 459 58 13 • rosa.strube@scp-centre.org