Roadmap/Workplan
N-HABIT milestones timeline
WP1 - (Cordoba) Culture and heritage hub in Cordoba
The role of culture and heritage in boosting IHW has mainly been analysed through a silo approach: i.e., the role of some activities in increasing health and wellbeing, or the influence of indigenous cultures and identities.
Cordoba will use its cultural heritage to deliver new evidence-based knowledge on how to promote more sustainable, accessible and inclusive public spaces and cultural consumption patterns to boost IHW.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Include all parts of society in Cordoba’s path towards sustainability and inclusive urban development.
• Reduce segregation and disconnection in the Las Palmeras neighbourhood.
• Remove barriers to inclusive health and well-being (high unemployment, low quality social housing, lack of green areas and recreational public spaces, and low educational standards).
• Drive healthier diets and lifestyles in the neighbourhood.
Cordoba will use its cultural heritage to deliver new evidence-based knowledge on how to promote more sustainable, accessible and inclusive public spaces and cultural consumption patterns to boost IHW.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Include all parts of society in Cordoba’s path towards sustainability and inclusive urban development.
• Reduce segregation and disconnection in the Las Palmeras neighbourhood.
• Remove barriers to inclusive health and well-being (high unemployment, low quality social housing, lack of green areas and recreational public spaces, and low educational standards).
• Drive healthier diets and lifestyles in the neighbourhood.
WP2 - (Riga) Agenskalns food hub in Riga
Riga will examine how sustainable food systems and healthy lifestyles can interlink with cultural and social life, promoting health-conscious food habits.
Riga will deliver information and best practices on how the integration of physical and social innovations can stimulate collective activities that allow individuals from different backgrounds and ages to interact around healthy food. How this fosters behavioural changes in food habits and educational and consumption practices will also be established.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Provide opportunities for cultural life, physical activities and social life, particularly for families and young professionals.
• Enhance the area’s social desirability, removing the perception that Āgenskalns is insufficiently safe.
• Make the Āgenskalns neighbourhood of more interest to young families, making use of green areas for recreational zones.
• Ensure the local community is cohesive, welcoming students from abroad and professionals in creative industries without
disrupting the social equilibrium.
Riga will deliver information and best practices on how the integration of physical and social innovations can stimulate collective activities that allow individuals from different backgrounds and ages to interact around healthy food. How this fosters behavioural changes in food habits and educational and consumption practices will also be established.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Provide opportunities for cultural life, physical activities and social life, particularly for families and young professionals.
• Enhance the area’s social desirability, removing the perception that Āgenskalns is insufficiently safe.
• Make the Āgenskalns neighbourhood of more interest to young families, making use of green areas for recreational zones.
• Ensure the local community is cohesive, welcoming students from abroad and professionals in creative industries without
disrupting the social equilibrium.
WP3 - (Lucca) Human-animal city in Lucca
Lucca will become the first European city with an integrated Hum-An (human-animal) policy. It will deliver evidence on how visionary and integrated actions around human and animal links might support the mobility and inclusion of the elderly.
It will also explore the benefits of woman-animal interactions (both in terms of caring and feeling safer).
Animal assisted interventions will be performed in public and dedicated spaces. Services for people accompanied by their companion animals, both for Lucca inhabitants and tourists, will be implemented.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Bring together the city centre inside the walls, where an older population lives, and the outside part of the city.
• Support cultural identity, intergenerational links, family management, and effective provision of services for the city's diverse social groups.
• Build on the pro-active social policies adopted by the municipality to help the Roma community in the more peripheral part of the city better connect with other parts of the population.
It will also explore the benefits of woman-animal interactions (both in terms of caring and feeling safer).
Animal assisted interventions will be performed in public and dedicated spaces. Services for people accompanied by their companion animals, both for Lucca inhabitants and tourists, will be implemented.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Bring together the city centre inside the walls, where an older population lives, and the outside part of the city.
• Support cultural identity, intergenerational links, family management, and effective provision of services for the city's diverse social groups.
• Build on the pro-active social policies adopted by the municipality to help the Roma community in the more peripheral part of the city better connect with other parts of the population.
WP4 - (Nitra) Reversible Multifunctional Open-source Urban Landscape
Nitra will combine art and environment with social innovations to create multifunctional spaces with the aim of integrating economic migrants in the city’s social life.
Based on the impact of their actions and lessons learnt, Nitra will contribute sound knowledge on how to bridge divides between people from different origins. Additionally, Nitra will provide information of interest for Eastern cities, where collective action and migrant integration have a more limited tradition.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Ensure the economic activities and influx of foreign investors do not have negative effects on the city’s health and wellbeing.
• Improve living standards and quality of life for immigrant workers.
• Better integrate the industrial park’s immigrant workers into the community, preventing them from feeling isolated.
• Promote use of alternative modes of transport, such as cycling, by residents of Nitra and employees in the industrial park, reducing the perception that cycling is dangerous and ineffective.
Based on the impact of their actions and lessons learnt, Nitra will contribute sound knowledge on how to bridge divides between people from different origins. Additionally, Nitra will provide information of interest for Eastern cities, where collective action and migrant integration have a more limited tradition.
IN-HABIT can help:
• Ensure the economic activities and influx of foreign investors do not have negative effects on the city’s health and wellbeing.
• Improve living standards and quality of life for immigrant workers.
• Better integrate the industrial park’s immigrant workers into the community, preventing them from feeling isolated.
• Promote use of alternative modes of transport, such as cycling, by residents of Nitra and employees in the industrial park, reducing the perception that cycling is dangerous and ineffective.
WP5 - Inhabitant Engagement, Inclusive Business Models and PPPPs to Boost IHW
● WP5 deals with the engagement process of inhabitants and stakeholders in the four local PPPPs (public-private-people partnerships) in order to ensure an inclusive distribution of the benefits of the IN-HABIT project.
● In order to do so, the following outcomes will be delivered throughout the project:
1) GDEI Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit: A set of guidelines, methods and tools for the engagement of stakeholders in the PPPPs.
2) Inclusive Transition Pathways: The multi-stakeholder participatory strategy aimed at leading the co-design and implementation of local projects.
3) Guidelines and Lessons Learnt: The main guidelines and lesson learnt from the Inclusive Transition Pathways defined in each city.
● In order to do so, the following outcomes will be delivered throughout the project:
1) GDEI Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit: A set of guidelines, methods and tools for the engagement of stakeholders in the PPPPs.
2) Inclusive Transition Pathways: The multi-stakeholder participatory strategy aimed at leading the co-design and implementation of local projects.
3) Guidelines and Lessons Learnt: The main guidelines and lesson learnt from the Inclusive Transition Pathways defined in each city.
WP6 - Enabling Behavioural Changes with a gender, diversity, equity and inclusion perspective (GDEI)
WP6 has four key objectives:
● to embed the GDEI perspective into the IN-HABIT Inclusive Transformation Plans and Inclusive Transition Pathways;
● to produce behaviour change among local inhabitants, with an emphasis on empowering local women as community leaders and active changemakers within the co-management of re-designed urban commons;
● to produce behaviour change among city planners by enhancing their competences and skills;
● to enhance scientific and public knowledge and debate around GDEI-based co-design and co-management of urban commons for IHW.
To meet these objectives, behavioural games will be used to foster cooperation, reveal stereotypes and evaluate solutions, and promote behaviour change. Gendered landscapes will examine the links between economic, social and environmental aspects of gendered policy decisions, the connections between local actors and levels of government, and the relationship between hard and soft investments.
● to embed the GDEI perspective into the IN-HABIT Inclusive Transformation Plans and Inclusive Transition Pathways;
● to produce behaviour change among local inhabitants, with an emphasis on empowering local women as community leaders and active changemakers within the co-management of re-designed urban commons;
● to produce behaviour change among city planners by enhancing their competences and skills;
● to enhance scientific and public knowledge and debate around GDEI-based co-design and co-management of urban commons for IHW.
To meet these objectives, behavioural games will be used to foster cooperation, reveal stereotypes and evaluate solutions, and promote behaviour change. Gendered landscapes will examine the links between economic, social and environmental aspects of gendered policy decisions, the connections between local actors and levels of government, and the relationship between hard and soft investments.
WP7 - Assessing the Impact of Visionary and Integrated Solutions (VIS) on IHW
A work package dedicated to the impact assessment of the project with specific regard to changes affecting inclusive health and wellbeing (IHW) by capturing the short to medium term changes affecting people’s condition, with specific regard to groups at risk of discrimination by age, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, also considering city specific minorities and intersectionality.
1) It aims to isolate the changes which are at least in part attributable to the IN-HABIT solutions from those which are not due to the project;
2) It aims to measure the quality and quantity of this change compared to a baseline in order to judge the success of the solutions in improving inclusive health and wellbeing;
3) It will look at both expected and unexpected changes on people's health and wellbeing as a result of the solutions.
1) It aims to isolate the changes which are at least in part attributable to the IN-HABIT solutions from those which are not due to the project;
2) It aims to measure the quality and quantity of this change compared to a baseline in order to judge the success of the solutions in improving inclusive health and wellbeing;
3) It will look at both expected and unexpected changes on people's health and wellbeing as a result of the solutions.
WP8 - Dissemination, Exploitation, Communication and Outreach Strategy (DECO)
● The dissemination and communication strategy for IN-HABIT is collaborative. Dissemination activities will be co-defined and co-developed with project partners to create a stronger network, foster better information around the project's topics and raise awareness.
1) DISSEMINATION STRATEGY: It is crucial to identify target groups and dissemination channels to address the project's messages to vulnerable groups, IN-HABIT target groups in each city, public administrations, city authorities and city councils, urban planners, health and wellbeing providers, entrepreneurs and businesses, educators, teachers, trainers and society at large.
2) COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: When working together with partners from very different backgrounds, having a good connection and “speaking the same language” when it comes to communication is essential.
1) DISSEMINATION STRATEGY: It is crucial to identify target groups and dissemination channels to address the project's messages to vulnerable groups, IN-HABIT target groups in each city, public administrations, city authorities and city councils, urban planners, health and wellbeing providers, entrepreneurs and businesses, educators, teachers, trainers and society at large.
2) COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: When working together with partners from very different backgrounds, having a good connection and “speaking the same language” when it comes to communication is essential.
WP9 - Project Management and Coordination
General objective:
To adequately manage and coordinate the project.
Specific objectives:
To provide overall technical and scientific direction and to drive the progress of the project, steering efforts of the partners for the achievement of milestones and ensuring that the work is undertaken with appropriate quality levels.
To elaborate a project management handbook defining the rules of financial-administrative management as well as the common general procedures for deliverables and related reports of the project.
To perform exhaustive progress monitoring to avoid deviations and facilitate the execution of the project.
To ensure that the project is not hampered by ethical problems and respects all relevant international and national regulations.
To comply with the HORIZON 2020 rules in terms of financial and administrative issues. To organize and participate in coordination meetings on a regular basis.
To define clear Data Management and IPR policies allowing a joint exploitation of the results while avoiding conflicts among partners.
To foster clustering and synergies with other complementary EU projects.
To adequately manage and coordinate the project.
Specific objectives:
To provide overall technical and scientific direction and to drive the progress of the project, steering efforts of the partners for the achievement of milestones and ensuring that the work is undertaken with appropriate quality levels.
To elaborate a project management handbook defining the rules of financial-administrative management as well as the common general procedures for deliverables and related reports of the project.
To perform exhaustive progress monitoring to avoid deviations and facilitate the execution of the project.
To ensure that the project is not hampered by ethical problems and respects all relevant international and national regulations.
To comply with the HORIZON 2020 rules in terms of financial and administrative issues. To organize and participate in coordination meetings on a regular basis.
To define clear Data Management and IPR policies allowing a joint exploitation of the results while avoiding conflicts among partners.
To foster clustering and synergies with other complementary EU projects.
