CALLIOPE – One Health Open Innovation Living Lab Taranto

Hosted by the Municipality and Local Health Authority of Taranto in collaboration with CTE Taranto, CALLIOPE is a Living Lab advancing One Health and urban health through interdisciplinary research, citizen engagement and evidence-based innovation. Operating within the Inter-institutional Centre for Urban Health (ASL Taranto, Municipality of Taranto and ARPA Puglia), it investigates how environmental, social and lifestyle determinants interact across human, animal, food and ecosystem health.

CALLIOPE combines population-based epidemiology, cross-ecosystem multi-omics, biomarkers and artificial intelligence to understand how urban exposures—including air pollution, environmental noise and social inequalities. Moving beyond siloed approaches, it applies causal-inference AI and planetary health analytics to generate actionable evidence for prevention and public policy.

CALLIOPE translates scientific knowledge into citizen-centred solutions and scalable health interventions. Its work is grounded in the evidence that coordinated, multidomain lifestyle interventions can enhance health outcomes, promote healthy ageing and strengthen cognitive resilience across the population.

Areas of work:

• Emerging Technologies (e.g. AI, AR/VR)
• Environment/Climate Change
• Food
• Health and Well-being
• Smart Cities and Regions
• SME and Start-ups
• Social Innovation and Inclusion
• Urban
• Water (Blue Economy)
• Zero Pollution and Decarbonization