The project aims to develop a common approach for examining and connecting with actors and stakeholders important to the provision and maintenance of social infrastructure at the neighbourhood level in the Baltic Sea region. The project seeks to inform policies to promote healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities.
Global and national policy objectives emphasize the urgency of creating healthy, inclusive, and socially sustainable cities, promoting healthy lifestyles, and ensuring good-quality educational, health and care facilities. Social infrastructure represents a crucial element of the built environment in healthy local communities. The provision and maintenance of social infrastructure requires integrated sectoral policies and priorities as well as specific civic, public, and private actor relations and funding arrangements. This can lead to a potentially fragmented and uneven distribution of social infrastructure across countries, cities, and even neighbourhoods.
Poject activities include the development of an agenda and framework for examining differences and similarities in governance arrangements for social infrastructure at the neighbourhood level among the Baltic Sea countries as well as mapping and identifying actors and stakeholders integral to the provision and maintenance of social infrastructure.