Clustering webinar with OneHealth4Cities project
As the proud exploitation Leader of the OneAquaHealth project, Wise Angle Consulting S.L. (WISE) organized on 05.02.2025 a networking session with the OneHealth4Cities project, to bring together research and policy partners committed to advancing healthier and more sustainable urban environments. OneHealth4Cities promotes the integration of the One Health approach into urban strategies by developing tools and action plans that help decision-makers enhance the well-being of people, animals, and the environment. Funded under the URBACT programme, it offers to the OneAquaHealth project inspiring opportunities for its city network and supports its scaling-up ambition.
Webinar Objectives: To establish a bridge between a R&I groundbreaking project and an urban policy planning network, by deepening mutual understanding of each project’s goals and activities. To present the OneAquaHealth indicators framework and technological offerings, exploring how these tools can be scaled and adapted to different urban contexts. To explore synergies with ongoing initiatives in the cities belonging to the OneHealth4Cities network to amplify impact. Among the key takeaways of the webinar are the highlighted importance of adaptable solutions that meet local needs while promoting global OneHealth goals. The OneAquaHealth’s indicators framework and its digital tools development sparked dynamic discussions on the essential role of stakeholder engagement, the barriers and enablers to meaningful citizen involvement. Several cities are working towards effective data-driven decision-making, increasing transparency and accountability e.g., Ville de Lyon that is planning to expand their data collection and analysis capacities with One Health related information: this draws routes for potential integration of the OneAquaHealth tools. The OneAquaHealth consortium is excited to build on this momentum and keep working to expand the project’s International City Lab, an informal group of cities sharing similar challenges in the management of their blue & green areas and streams
Author(s): Georgia Karyami, Wise Angle Consulting S.L. (WISE)