Nordic Healthy Cities

Nordic Healthy Cities is a collaboration project within the Nordic Smart City Network that runs until April 2022. The aim is to create supportive urban environments and living, to improve health and quality of life. NSCN will cooperate with private companies to deliver sustainable solutions to deal with the health challenges brought by increased urbanization. 

The Nordic Healthy Cities project serves to mitigate and prevent health challenges and set the public sector as a driver of innovation in close partnership with private companies. Efficient urban planning and management practices must be in place to deal with the health and wellbeing challenges brought by urbanization. Data-driven development of the urban environment serves to improve health and the quality of life, as well as functional city developments such as climate protection initiatives. 

The project has a total budget of 10.200.000 NOK of which 5.000.000 NOK is direct funding from Nordic Innovation. Nordic Healthy Cities supports Nordic Innovation’s vision of a sustainable and integrated health region included in their program “Health, Demography and Quality of Life”.

Nordic Healthy Cities consist of five projects that will test new innovative practices to tackle health effects in future urban areas. Each project is managed by a lead city and a number of participating cities from the Nordic Smart City Network.  By sharing knowledge and learnings from the innovation projects and by collaborating with private businesses, the Nordic cities will scale successful projects within their city to other partner cities.