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VeBS - The good use of Green and Blue spaces for the promotion of health and well-being

The second presentation event of the PNRR-PNC project "The good use of Green and Blue spaces for the promotion of well-being and health" financed by the Ministry of Health will be held on May 10th in L'Aquila.
The VeBS Project - The good use of green and blue spaces for the promotion of well-being and health - is financed by the National Plan for Complementary Investments (PNC) to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), as part of the Investment 1.4 dedicated to the promotion and financing of applied research with multidisciplinary approaches in specific areas of health-environment-climate intervention, of which the Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Health Prevention is the implementing body. It was started in 2023 and will be completed in 2026.

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  • VeBS - The good use of Green and Blue spaces for the promotion of health and well-being
  • 2024-05-10T10:00:00+02:00
  • 2024-05-10T17:00:00+02:00
  • The second presentation event of the PNRR-PNC project "The good use of Green and Blue spaces for the promotion of well-being and health" financed by the Ministry of Health will be held on May 10th in L'Aquila. The VeBS Project - The good use of green and blue spaces for the promotion of well-being and health - is financed by the National Plan for Complementary Investments (PNC) to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), as part of the Investment 1.4 dedicated to the promotion and financing of applied research with multidisciplinary approaches in specific areas of health-environment-climate intervention, of which the Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Health Prevention is the implementing body. It was started in 2023 and will be completed in 2026. Web site project Program
  • When May 10, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
  • Where L'Aquila, Centro Congressi Luigi Zordan - Sala San Basilio
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The green (parks, gardens) and blue (canals, rivers and bodies of water) infrastructures provide various services to citizens whose importance has recently been recognized by the WHO (World Health Organisation), however the development of new areas and the very management of existing ones often does not take into account the potential impacts they can have on the well-being of citizens and on the physical and/or mental state of health or on diseases.

The Project, with the scientific coordination of the ISS and with the Calabria Region as leader, sees the involvement of 7 Operational Units, in addition to ISPRA: ARPA Calabria, ARPAE Emilia-Romagna, Department of Epidemiology SSR Lazio Region - ASL Roma1, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, University of Bologna, National Interuniversity Consortium for Environmental Sciences, ARTA Abruzzo. The project includes in-depth analysis of some case studies and with reference to four regions of our country: Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Abruzzo and Calabria.