Budapest is reshaping urban spaces through the adaption and scaling of the Healthy Streets methodology, creating safer, healthier, and climate-resilient public spaces.
Budapest’s Healthy Streets Knowledge Center (HSKC) is the city’s flagship initiative under the Horizon Europe UP2030 project, designed to foster healthier, more climate-resilient, and people-centered streets. Acting as both a physical and digital hub, the Center promotes the Healthy Streets methodology—originally developed by Lucy Saunders in London and now adapted to Budapest’s local context—to guide the city’s journey toward climate neutrality and inclusive urban living.
The HSKC ensures coherence and collaboration across districts by providing methodological, professional, and coordination support. Through this framework, Budapest is transforming its streets into green, safe, and socially vibrant public spaces, where sustainability, mobility, and well-being are interwoven.
Urban planners, local communities, district officials, designers, and other relevant stakeholders, such as local businesses.
Impact and Long Term Vision
The Healthy Streets Knowledge Center establishes a lasting foundation for integrating health, climate, and equity into Budapest’s urban policies and projects. By connecting methodology, data, and practice, it enables the scaling of sustainable street transformations citywide.
As a permanent hub, the HSKC will guide Budapest’s journey toward climate neutrality, providing the tools and partnerships needed to transform public spaces into vibrant, accessible, and future-ready environments.
- Municipality of Budapest
- Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK)
- Budapest Főváros Városépítési Tervező (BFVT)
- Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
- Mapping for Change (MfC)
- Design Clips (DC)
- Institute for Urban Excellence
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH)
- adelphi
- Delft University of Technology (TUDelft)
Leading development and implementation.
Leading development and implementation.
Leading development and implementation.
Coordination and advisory support.
Delivered Community Maps for citizen feedback on green spaces.
Developing youth engagement materials for schools.
Providing storytelling tools for community-led planning.
Creating Neutrality Story Maps to visually communicate climate challenges and solutions.
Creating Neutrality Story Maps to visually communicate climate challenges and solutions.
Supporting governance and justice components.
Supporting governance and justice components.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This project has received funding from the Horizon Innovation Actions under the grant agreement n° 101096405.