Tartu
Tartu is the second biggest town in Estonia, with approximately 100,000 inhabitants. It is a Smart City with active and creative people. Situated in the valley of River Emajõgi it provides citizens with the opportunity to experience the joy of water-related activities and nice walks along the river. Parks, bike roads, and sport grounds all over the town all invite citizens to be physically active.
Tartu is the second biggest town in Estonia, with approximately 100,000 inhabitants. It is a Smart City with active and creative people. Situated in the valley of River Emajõgi it provides citizens with the opportunity to experience the joy of water-related activities and nice walks along the river. Parks, bike roads, and sport grounds all over the town all invite citizens to be physically active.
What was the challenge to be solved?
There are many national programmes for children and their health, but not so much for adults. Adults often sit the whole working day and while travelling – after-work activities do not always compensate for this inactivity resulting problems arise with physical and mental health. It was necessary to start shaping the mindset, how to organize working day to be more active and also make exercising outdoors more accessible for everybody, no matter how experienced you are or what are your physical limits.
How do you feel model benefited your cross-sectoral cooperation in the pilot?
The Model gives structure to a meeting, helps you to look forward and be better prepared. The meetings are more successful. The model provides a supportive tool for a new colleague when starting a project. It helps to position oneself in the process and find suitable partners to reach the goals. While being stuck and out of ideas, the questions in the Model help to find a way out.
How did the pilot benefit the life of the residents?
The pilot engaged City residents to cooperate and cocreate during diferent activities. We are hoping that engaging City residents partially to designing process will create more value, attract cityzens and bring change in the mindset. Pilot team has cocreated a lot to develop ways to make information how to work out easyer to access by providing accessible information to people with any social and physical backround. Including sports ground app which is already launched and exercising information board which is developed but yet to be established.
How was XR used in pilot?
Tartu and flyAR Augmented Reality Studio Oy cooperated and developed a smartphone app introducing outdoor gyms in Tartu, which allows user to see the addresses, the 360 view of outdoor gyms and instructive videos how to exercise. The exercises are being introduced by volunteers, who also contributed to come up with ideas how exercise. The aim is to engage everybody, especially those, who have never had an experience to work out before.
What was the value of having transnational peers in Healthy Boost project?
Peer city was a comfortable shoulder to cry on when being stuck with the processes especially regarding the activities related to project management but also when carrying out pilot activities. A peer city was good colleague to discuss when preparing project outputs and someone to test the materials on (how to collect best practices). They gave us valuabel feedback as well as certainty of being on the right track.
News about the Tartu pilot
