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From community garden to steering committee: Cities@Heart sees Cork's approach to urban heart health first-hand On 22 September 2026, the Cities@Heart coordinators and several project partners spent a day in Cork. They met local community leaders, health service managers, and researchers to see how the city is tackling cardiovascular disease (CVD) at neighbourhood level. The day ended with a hybrid Steering Committee meeting, so the whole consortium could take part. Where the

From Safe Hearts to Healthy Cities: Cities@Heart Sets Out Its Approach at ESC Congress. Speaking on ESC TV Connect at this year's ESC Congress, Cities@Heart Project Director Dipak Kotecha, Industry Lead Franck Perraudin (Novartis), and Donna Fitzsimons, Professor of Nursing at Queen's University Belfast, set out how the project intends to turn the European Union's Safe Hearts Plan into practical change for Europe's cities. Adopted by the European Commission in December 2025,

Bringing Our Work to the Global Cardiology Community. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress is the largest annual gathering of cardiovascular health professionals in the world, and this year, it brought together close to 34,000 participants in the field. Cities@Heart made its presence known. Over the course of the event in Munich, our team took part in a series of activities designed to strengthen the project internally and share our work with the wider cardiovas

New video series highlights how seven WHO Healthy Cities will strengthen local action to prevent cardiovascular disease through the Cities@Heart project. How can cities play a leading role in reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease? A new series of videos from the Cities@Heart project gives the floor to representatives from the participating WHO European Healthy Cities, who share how they plan to use the project to strengthen local interventions, foster collaboration an

A video series of three short clips featuring Project Leader, Dipak Kotecha, and Industry Lead, Franck Perraudin, introducing Cities@Heart are now available on the Cities@Heart YouTube channel. The videos talk about Cities@Heart in the contexts of "Why cardiovascular disease is so important", "How important are communities in addressing CVD" and "How Cities@Heart will be driving impact over 5 years". Check out the links below and subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notifi