6Aika: Co-Created Health and Wellbeing
CoHeWe program
Funders
Project information
Project duration
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Funded by
European Structural and Investment Funds - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Project funder
Funding amount
1 894 253 EUR
Project coordinator
Tampere University Hospital (Pirkanmaa Hospital District)
Contact information
Project leader
- Professor of practiceMaritta Perälä-Heape
Contact person
Project description
6Aika Co-Created Health and Wellbeing, shortly CoHeWe project, was one of the sustainable urban development projects of six main cities of Finland. The CoHeWe project developed the role of companies to operate as a co-innovator and co-developer with the health and wellbeing services of the cities, research organisations and other partners.
The project united existing different service innovation and development methods and created a co-creation process model and procedures for the health, wellbeing, and social service’s business development and procurement. The needs for co-development was gathered from citizens, customers and healthcare professionals. The project focused especially on the service development of a proactive and active wellbeing. The project completed 35 co-creation cases with companies in total and six of them was piloted in Oulu. Key focus in Oulu was in piloting mobile solutions for the health and welfare and for the social care services.
Project results
The CoHeWe innovation piloting offered the companies both the possibility for the validation of the new service concepts and models as well as market references for procurement on national level. The co-operation and innovation with the cities resulted practices and tools to support the co-creation process model. The project resulted an open publication From Need to Solution - Co-creation handbook for social welfare and health care (In Finnish: TARPEESTA RATKAISUKSI – Yhteiskehittämisen opas sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollossa).