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Project
the project addresses the combination of air quality, environmental comfort, noise and consequently the aspects related to urban mobility, urban planning and health inequalities.

Start date: 01/03/2021
End date: 28/03/2025

Partnership
Lead partner: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Partner:
• Sorbonne University (France)
• University of Stuttgart (Germany)
• Municipality of Milan (Italy)
• Athens Development and Destination Management Agency (Greece)
• Aarhus University (Denmark)
• Upcom (Belgium)
• ENVE.X (GREECE)
• Ambiente Italia Srl (Italy)
• University Institute of Higher Studies of Pavia (Italy)
• Jozef Stefan Institut (Slovenia)
• Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Center (Spain)
• Carlos Iii Health Institute (Spain)
• European Network Of Living Labs (Belgium)
• The Robert Gordon University (UK)
• Vilabs Ltd (Cyprus)
• Mesaep (Greece

Aims
The general objective of URBANOME is to promote the health, well-being and liveability of cities, through the systematic integration of health issues into urban policies and citizens' activities. The integration of health-related aspects, environmental stressors and social equality into public and private activities will contribute to alleviating a number of contemporary urban challenges, in particular social cohesion and health inequalities, in order to promote transition of European cities towards sustainability, climate change-proof, innovative and inclusive.

Actions
As a partner of the project, the Municipality of Milan will be involved in the organization and management of local activities connected to the project. In particular, the city of Milan will become an "Urban living lab", and the Municipality will be responsible for the coordination and implementation of the stakeholder engagement activity and co-monitoring in the pilot area, identified in the Open Squares project, of which one will be chosen from the list of 10 squares that will be built by the end of 2020. Quantitative and qualitative monitoring will be carried out, both of environmental indices in particular in relation to liveability in terms of healthiness of the space, and of indices social in terms of evaluating the use of space and user satisfaction.

Expected results
• reduce air quality challenges, combat climate change and promote social equity and environmental justice by taking into account the effect of socioeconomic status on population vulnerability to poor air quality and extreme weather and through processes co-creative governance with the participation of diverse stakeholders, including hard-to-reach communities;
• promote social cohesion, inclusiveness and cost-effectiveness in environmental management by integrating socio-economic dynamics into the analysis of the system;
• Filling key information and knowledge gaps can be identified as a priority for future work and risk management actions.