Healthy Cities: from Planning to Action

Phase II of the EU funded Project entitled Healthy Cities: from Planning to Action, to which the Planning Authority (PA) in Malta is a project partner, has been recently approved. Building upon Phase I, this partnership is led by the Municipality of Vic (Spain) and consists of nine (9) entities based in Pärnu (EE), Farkadona (EL), Falerna (IT), Anyksciai (LT), Planning Authority Malta (MT), Alphen aan den Rijn (NL), Loulé (PT) and Bradford (UK). The main objective to this network of cities consists of deepening the relationship between health and urban planning.

An URBACT Local Group (ULG), which includes representatives from the Local Government Division, the Senglea Local Council and specialised doctors from the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate will co-design an Integrated Action Plan, which will focus on the possibility of creating a web-based application, to be used along a waterfronts to enhance mobility whilst connecting communities and places. Both phases of the URBACT Healthy Cities project have attracted a total of almost €750,000 in terms of EU Funding, of which €62,420 are allocated to Malta, through the Planning Authority with an EU co-financing rate of 85%. Within the Planning Authority, the project is managed by Dr Wendy Jo Mifsud who is assisted by Mr Patrick Mifsud within the Strategic Planning Unit in collaboration with the EU and Multilateral Affairs Unit in the Foreign Policy Research, EU, and Funding Division.

For more information please find below the link to the Planning Authority's website:

https://www.pa.org.mt/healthy-cities-from-planning-to-action