Mobility & Health

Enhancing and maintaining people's mobility across their life course is an important societal challenge, as mobility is a fundamental to how people function, participate, and live their daily lives. Maintaining and enhancing mobility across the life course is therefore an important societal challenge. Mobility has implications for prevention, functional recovery, rehabilitation, and healthier, more inclusive living conditions. Addressing these challenges requires collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, bringing together knowledge, expertise and innovation to develop and exchange ideas and create meaningful impact on real-world mobility and health challenges.

Mobility is fundamental to healthy, meaningful and fulfilling lives and thriving societies

Connecting knowledge, people and society

Utrecht Mobility & Health brings together researchers, teachers, students, healthcare professionals, policymakers and societal partners from across Utrecht Science Park to build connections around shared challenges in mobility and health. Through community-building, knowledge exchange, and interdisciplinary collaboration, the platform creates opportunities to share expertise, explore emerging developments, and develop new partnerships.

Our mission

Our mission is to bring people, knowledge, and disciplines together to improve people's mobility and health across the life course. By connecting expertise, enabling exchange and building partnerships across science, healthcare, policy and society, we create opportunities for interdisciplinary research, innovation and education that contribute to prevention, functional recovery, rehabilitation and healthier, more inclusive lives.

Our approach

We facilitate, connect and strengthen Mobility & Health initiatives across Utrecht Science Park via three core functions:

Network - Connecting people and disciplines around shared challenges in mobility and health.
Exchange - Sharing knowledge, expertise and ideas, and creating opportunities for collaboration.
Societal Impact - Connecting science with societal partners to address real-world mobility and health challenges.

Research Innovations & Impact

Utrecht Mobility & Health positions mobility as a connecting concept across fundamental research, functioning and participation, and the living environments that enable healthy and active lives. Our work links to the following Life Sciences Innovations and impact themes:

Cell & Tissue modeling
Biofabrication & Artificial Organs
Quality of Life
Data & AI models
Environmental resilience
Imaging & Imaged guided interventions

Connected partners & research groups

HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

University Medical Center Utrecht

Utrecht University

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Hubrecht Institute

Hubrecht Institute: Molecular & Developmental Biology

Data and Knowledge Hub Healthy Urban Living

Network organisation of public and private partners

Utrecht Bike Community

A bike community for the city of Utrecht

Ambassadors

Stefan Elbers, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Knowledge Center of Healthy and Sustainable Living, Research group Innovation of Movement Care (U-Move Research Group)
Eva Bax, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Karin Valkenet, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy Science & Sport (U-Move Research Group)
Rosalie Hegeman, University Medical Center Utrecht, Public Health, Data- and Knowledgehub Healthy Urban Living
Roel Custers, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Thomas Hoogeboom, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy Science & Sport (U-Move Research Group)

Join the Utrecht Mobility & Health community to connect, share expertise and develop joint initiatives. Do you have any questions about Utrecht Mobility & Health? Don't hesitate to contact us at utrechtmobilityhealth@uu.nl