Discover the framework behind the HL4EU Platform
The Healthy Lifestyles Cross-Sectoral Platform is more than just a database—it's a dynamic tool designed to spotlight and connect innovative initiatives promoting healthy lifestyles. To make your experience seamless and impactful, we've carefully structured our platform around categories highlighting each initiative's key aspects.
Let’s dive into what these categories mean and why they matter!
A Clear Snapshot: General Information
Every great story starts with the basics.
Our General Information section provides a quick and consistent overview
of each initiative, ensuring you know exactly what you’re looking at and helping you submit your own good practices
Who’s Behind It?
Identify the organisation or partner championing the initiative.
What’s It Called?
The initiative’s title is your gateway to deeper insights.
When Did It Start?
Track the timeline of initiatives, from their inception to their current status.
Sectors and Sub-Sectors: Connecting the Dots
Healthy lifestyles are about collaboration across fields. Our platform categorises initiatives by:
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Sectors: Broad focus areas such as health, mobility, education, and community.
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Sub-Sectors: Zoom into specific topics like culture, arts, or urban planning.
This ensures you can quickly identify cross-sectoral efforts and the areas they target.
Efforts to shape urban environments in ways that encourage healthier behaviours, such as walking, cycling, or access to green spaces.
Government-led or supported programmes promoting healthy lifestyles.
Projects encouraging active or sustainable transport as a way to integrate physical activity into daily life.
Initiatives focusing on engaging local communities to promote healthier lifestyles.
Initiatives that connect health promotion with environmental goals, such as improving air quality or promoting green spaces.
Programmes directly aimed at increasing physical activity through organised exercise, sports, or individual fitness.
Core initiatives aimed at improving public health and healthcare outcomes.
Projects that leverage cultural activities and artistic initiatives to encourage well-being and physical activity.
Programmes that integrate health promotion into educational settings or provide learning opportunities for healthy lifestyles.
Where It Happens: Geographical Scope
Cities and Countries
Pinpoint where the initiative is implemented.
Continents
Broaden the perspective with regional and global trends.
Understanding the innovations
Innovation is at the heart of our project ensuring that initiatives promoting healthy lifestyles are impactful, dynamic, and forward-thinking. The platform focuses on three types of innovations—technological, methodological, and social. Each represents a unique approach to tackling challenges and improving outcomes, creating a comprehensive framework for progress.
Technological Innovation
Technological innovation refers to integrating advanced tools and digital systems to improve how initiatives are designed, implemented, or accessed. This includes harnessing technology to make health promotion more efficient, adaptable, and scalable, ensuring that it can cater to the needs of diverse audiences. These innovations empower users, enhance engagement, and enable the delivery of personalised solutions, making healthy lifestyles easier to adopt and maintain.
Methodological Innovation
Methodological innovation focuses on introducing new ways of working and thinking to improve the overall effectiveness of initiatives. This includes developing fresh processes, frameworks, or collaborative strategies that can adapt to evolving challenges. By rethinking traditional methods, methodological innovations ensure that initiatives are inclusive, well-structured, and sustainable. They also play a critical role in improving how results are measured and evaluated, offering insights to guide future actions.
Social Innovation
Social innovation addresses broader societal challenges by putting people and communities at the centre of the solution. It aims to create supportive environments, encourage positive behaviours, and improve access to health-promoting activities for all, particularly for those who may face barriers. These innovations focus on fostering equity, inclusion, and a sense of community, ensuring that the benefits of healthy lifestyles are accessible to everyone, regardless of their circumstances or backgrounds.
Partnerships
Partnerships are key for successful cross-sectoral initiatives, and finding what works best for the desired outcome is also part of it.
Public
Government agencies, public schools and universities, public hospitals, transportation systems, and municipal services such as water and sanitation
Private
Tech companies, retail stores, manufacturers, private schools and universities, private healthcare providers, entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses
Public & Private
Private companies providing specialised medical services under government contracts, private firms contracted to provide technology or facilities for public schools
Aims and outcomes
Clearly describing the initiatives' aims and outcomes will only increase their visibility and cohesion. HL4EU approach identifies and differentiates aims and outcomes by following the frameworks below.
Aims
The initiatives' aims part of HL4EU good practices are described following the C.A.P.I. framework: ensuring Clarity by stating the goal concisely, describing the Approach by specifying the cross-sectoral method, identifying the Population or target group, and highlighting the expected Impact to show long-term benefits.
Outcomes
When looking at the outcomes description, HL4EU's good practices follow the M./D.E.A.S. framework: making it Measurable /Descriptive by including clear indicators, ensuring it is Evidence-Based by comparing baseline data, keeping it Achievable, and emphasise its Significance by describing the broader impact