EmpoweRIng Citizens to adopt Healthy lifestyle Habits: A data-enaBled communIty-based ciTizen Science approach (EnRICH-HABITS)

The project focuses on raising awareness and processes of changes to promote contextually relevant knowledge for the local environment. To ensure contextual relevance in all participating countries (NL, DK, LV), the specifications and definitions of health risks will be applied based on the results of research based on citizen science approaches, harmonizing them between the project members. Results will be obtained by merging, harmonizing and interpreting data.

Work packages:

1. Identify risk profiles functional impairment and disability associated with poor diet and physical activity habits based on population-based data and the living environment.
2. Build capacity in communities with clustering of individually based risk profiles or area-based risk indicators.
3. Gain better understanding of the pathways of influence and innovative co-created solutions to empower citizens.
4. Integrate findings from the enriched population-based studies as well as the in-depth analyses and citizen science-based projects, and thus to create a prototype of a co-created local approach to successfully reach and empower citizens to improve their own diet and physical activity habits.
5. Coordinate and manage the project, ensure communication and cooperation with project partners and other involved parties. 

Project Coordinator

• University Medical Center Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)

Project partners

• Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Groningen, Netherlands)
• University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark)
• Rīga Stradiņš University (Riga, Latvia)