Smart Health Age-Friendly Environments are the purpose of the SHAFE Foundation. NWA has the great honour of participating in the EU Week for Sustainable and Inclusive Communities: the future is SHAFE – taking place October 1-3, 2024.

NWA participated with a presentation on “Looking at the future: health and wellbeing European citizens” and talk about trust, accountability and KPIs, about cross-sector collaboration, and about horizon scanning as a tool for strategy and progress.

Read more at the event site here – or read about the SHAFE Foundation here and their amazing work explore and promote age-friendly progress in Europe.

The theme of EHFG 2024 was the shifting sands of health – a core challenge for health and wellbeing in Europe is the ever shifting strategic interests of health in both the Member States and in the EU.

The policy forum in Gastein offers a unique opportunity to connect with organisations and policy makers – check out both recordings, presentations, themes, photos and more at ehfg.org

NWA participated in both networking events and facilitated both workshop session environmental determinants for health in EU policy – and also helped crowd source input on ideation for Commission and Parliament on future health policy.