KliBUp

Climate Health in Living Environments – Developing Strategies and Approaches to Promote Resilience through Bottom-Up Approaches

Project duration: 01/02/2025 – 31/01/2028 (Concept development phase: 01/06/2023 – 30/11/2023)

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Olaf Neumann, Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär, Prof. Dr. Raimund Geene

Project staff: Maria Ihm (M.A., Research Associate), Tuan Anh Rieck (M.Sc., Research Associate), Kristina Kleinmann (B.Sc., Student Assistant), Carolina Marie Walz (B.Sc., Student Assistant)

Partners:

• Subproject “Kita”: Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences; Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Susanne Borkowski, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Baumgarten, Dr. Katrin Lattner, Dr. Elena Sterdt
• Subproject “Urban Public Health”: University Hospital Essen, Institute for Urban Public Health; Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Moebus
• Subproject “Urban Public Health – Spatial Analysis”: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes
• Subproject “Inpatient Long-Term Care”: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Michael Ewers
• Subproject “Care Settings”: Esslingen University of Applied Sciences; Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Petra Wihofszky

Abstract:
KliBUp is a research network within the BMFTR funding line “Intervention Studies for Healthy and Sustainable Living Conditions and Lifestyles”. The KliBUp consortium consists of six universities: Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. The overall coordination is carried out by ASH Berlin.

The project investigates the development and implementation of participatory measures for promoting climate health in the settings of early childhood education, elderly care, and municipalities. The focus is on the potentials and limitations of participatory processes. The aim is to identify supporting and inhibiting factors for both individual and collective participation and self-efficacy, using the setting-based approach to health promotion and the community resilience approach. KliBUp aims to show how participation can succeed and how the resilience of the selected settings and their participants can be strengthened in the face of climate change.

Funding: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

Conferences:
- 60th Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP)
“Participation and Co-Creation”, Berlin, 17–19 September 2025

Keywords: Climate, Climate Health Promotion, Participatory Health Promotion, Setting-Based Approach, Health Equity

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