GESUNDHEIT IN BEWEGUNG: Exploring and Shaping the Health of Tomorrow

Our understanding of health and our scope for action in matters of health are changing through new knowledge and technologies, as well as through a new generation of patients, users, and co-creators. GESUNDHEIT IN BEWEGUNG (Health in Motion) examines, from the perspective of children and adolescents, the transformation of everyday life through medical research and medical technology, as well as the planning and use of social infrastructures and the associated social change.

The tasks of the disciplines of medicine and planning—both of which emerged in parallel in the 19th century—are increasingly intertwined. Health is present in more and more diverse forms and in many places at once, as health infrastructures become smaller and more mobile. In the health landscape of tomorrow, the boundaries between centralized and decentralized care are becoming fluid, and everyday, public, and private spaces are taking on new health-related responsibilities.

Automation and digitalization are establishing new fields of action, opening up new professional opportunities, and confronting us with a wide range of new questions and challenges. These developments require innovative inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. Disciplines that were once separate are already becoming research partnerships of the future. Today’s students are becoming tomorrow’s researchers and developers.

Active participation in shaping the health of tomorrow is at the core of GESUNDHEIT IN BEWEGUNG: in five workshops, children and adolescents work together with experts and educational partners to explore, in a playful manner, the many perspectives surrounding the digitalization of health and care, while gaining insights into related professional fields. At the end of the project, all participating students and teachers are invited to a jointly organized closing conference to present the knowledge developed about the health of tomorrow and to open it up for public discussion.

Participating Schools

Offene Volksschule Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse

Ganztagesvolksschule Aspernallee

Volksschule Kreindlgasse

KO50 – Mittelschule mit Schwerpunkt Informatik und Junior High School

Neue Mittelschule Mira Lobe Weg

Hans Radl Schule I – Schule für Kinder und Jugendliche mit Körperbehinderung