Sprint projects
The Healthy Start Sprint projects are short term high impact projects, financed by the Healthy Starters Fund. Healthy Start invited researchers and their external partners in 2023 to submit proposals for projects that foster societal impact or educational innovation related to the six Healthy Start ambitions. These ideas varied from podcast to theatre production and from co-creation labs to VR.
2024
PISA study
Accessibility of mental healthcare is poor, with substantial waiting lists for youth with suicidal thoughts.
Cradled in Safety
New life is fragile. While every newborn is at risk for a life-threatening bacterial infection (sepsis), some carry particular risk.
Play it, Move it, Improve it
Towards a novel approach for physical therapy at the children’s hospital: integrating Mixed Reality makes physical therapy more engaging and enjoyable.
SPARK
In this transformative project, convergence researchers, children (aged 8-12 years) and (mental) health care professionals explore three important challenges of child participation in research.
AI- based Digital Health Assistants
We will co-create an ethically legitimate LLM prototype digital health assistant that can support youth in healthy behaviors and essential skills, and provide crucial knowledge on Inclusive Human-Centric AI for youth mental health.
Music’s Mental Toolbox
This project explores music’s role towards well-being and societal engagement among young people in Rotterdam.
Smoke-Free Start
A healthy start is a smoke-free start.
Health, economic, and equity impact of early-life interventions in the Netherlands
Early-life interventions carry the largest potential for improving long-term health, opportunity, and equity.
Wearables in pediatrics
Wearables can provide ambulant measurements of vital parameters and physical activity, which can aid in promoting healthy lifestyle adaptations.
Let’s Movez together
Researchers and professionals often struggle to engage children in a fun and appealing way in intervention design and development.
2023
Solid Start
Innovative digital care for a healthy start
Just-In-Time-Adaptive Mechanisms
To Prevent Mental Health Problems in Youth
Never Mind
A theater production on mental health and social inequality made by and for youth
Healthy Start ServiceLab
Innovating healthcare services through experience-centric codesign
Developing insights through Virtual Reality
Read moreWhat is happening inside my head?
Online lesson series on mental health and the brain
HERSENSPIN
HERSENonderzoek en educatie voor SPeels INzicht
Designing for impact
Strengthening partnerships along the first 1000 days to improve risk screening
Reflect, Share & Inspire
Develop your own impact narrative with our tool
Local to Global
From a transdisciplinary elective to a Healthy Start minor
Breaking Barriers
Co-creation Lab empowering Forensic Young Adults and Psychology Master’s Students towards Innovative Research
Start with Impact
Developing Stakeholder Engagement Methodology and Teaching Modules for Healthy Start Education
(Re)Searching a Healthy Start
An Educational Podcast Project