Imagine you're a city planner or a company trying to make people healthier while also cutting pollution — but every department works in its own silo. INHERIT figured out how to get health, environment, and climate teams to actually work together. They tested real interventions across 12 European countries in three areas: how people live, what they consume, and how they move around. The result is a ready-made policy toolkit and training course so decision-makers can copy what worked.
Cities and companies trying to improve public health outcomes often ignore the environmental and social inequality dimensions — or handle them in separate departments with conflicting goals. This leads to policies that solve one problem while creating another, wasting resources and missing the populations most at risk.
The project produced a Policy and Investment Kit with actionable interventions for policymakers, and an online course module for health professionals covering environment and sustainable development. These were backed by pilot interventions tested across 12 European countries and a Common Analytical Framework for measuring combined health, environmental, and social benefits.
If you are a public health consultancy helping cities tackle health inequalities — this project developed a Policy and Investment Kit with tested interventions across 3 areas (living, consuming, moving) that were piloted in 12 countries. You can use these ready-made models of good practice to design evidence-based programmes for your municipal clients faster.
If you are an ESG advisory firm helping companies integrate health and environmental targets — this project built a Common Analytical Framework with quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure social, environmental, and health benefits together. This lets you offer clients a single assessment tool instead of juggling separate health and environment audits.
If you are a training platform serving health promotion professionals — this project created an online course module specifically designed to upskill health decision-makers in cross-sector environmental work. You could license or adapt this content to expand your catalogue with an EU-validated course covering 12-country evidence.
The Policy and Investment Kit and online course module were developed with EU public funding and are available through the project website (inherit.eu). Based on available project data, pricing for commercial licensing or adaptation is not specified — you would need to contact the coordinator for terms.
The interventions were tested across 12 countries with 18 partner organisations, suggesting the methods are adaptable to different European contexts. The analytical framework uses both quantitative and qualitative indicators, which can be applied at municipal, regional, or national scale. However, each deployment would need local calibration.
The project was funded as a Research and Innovation Action (RIA), which typically means results are owned by the consortium. The Policy and Investment Kit and online course module are the main licensable assets. Contact the coordinator EUROHEALTHNET ASBL in Belgium for IP and licensing terms.
INHERIT was designed to contribute directly to European environment, health, and sustainable development policy agendas. The tools align with EU public health and climate policy goals. However, the project ended in 2019, so regulatory alignment should be verified against current directives.
The project ran for 4 years (2016–2019) to develop and test its tools. For an organisation adopting the existing toolkit, implementation would be significantly faster since the pilot testing across 12 countries is already done. Based on available project data, specific deployment timelines are not published.
EUROHEALTHNET ASBL, a Brussels-based European health network, coordinated the project. They have ongoing capacity to support adoption. The online course module was specifically designed to build leadership skills in health professionals working across sectors.
The 18-partner consortium spans 12 countries but is heavily tilted toward research and policy rather than industry — only 2 industry partners (11% ratio) and 2 SMEs. The coordinator, EUROHEALTHNET ASBL, is a well-connected European health policy network based in Belgium. With 6 universities and 5 research organisations, the consortium excels at evidence generation but lacks strong commercial channels. The 5 "other" partners likely include public health agencies and NGOs, which means the tools are well-validated for policy use but would need a commercial partner to bring them to market.
EUROHEALTHNET ASBL is a Brussels-based European public health network — reach out through their organisational website for partnership or licensing discussions
SciTransfer can connect you with the INHERIT consortium to explore licensing the Policy and Investment Kit or online course module for your market.
