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EU Interreg project WiWa2

WiWa2 = Economicrk factors of the natural healing resources Wasoil and waters to improve health and quality of life as a tourist contribution to sustainable habitat development.

Preventive, rehabilitative & therapeutic services have always been individual and indication-specific - and have known how to use the special features of healing resources as a USP and field of development for medical services.

 

Building on this tradition & economic strength, the project investigates new evidence-based approaches to the effectiveness of natural spaces on the health and quality of life of the population and specific patient populations. To this end, clinical studies will be conducted to generate medical evidence for nature-based therapies that integrate new rehabilitation formats in the surrounding nature - especially forest and water - based on the clinical area and its indications. For example, indication-specific forest therapies are being evaluated and nature-based and health-promoting offers are being developed.

 

As a result, regional value chains can be strengthened through the valorization of the surrounding healing resources and the natural environment can be better managed and protected.

Project consortium

  1. LEAD: Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg (PMU) - Institute of Ecomedicine
  2. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) - Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research (IBE)
  3. Innovation Salzburg GmbH
  4. Bad Hofgastein Spa and Tourism Association
  5. German Pension Insurance Bavaria South - REHAFACHZENTRUM Bad Füssing - Passau

Project outcomes

  1. Potential maps for the valorization of natural healing resources to increase the quality of life for locals and guests
  2. Guidelines for sustainable habitat development through nature-based health tourism
  3. Sustainability strategy for clinics, tourism and communities to create resilient and diversified health services at local level

 

Project volume: €875,000

 

Project period: 01/2023 to 12/2025

 

Project code: BA0100027

 

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