Follow-up project of SALVE+ receives funding

The HEAD Genuit Foundation is pleased to support the three-year follow-up project to SALVE+ from January 2026: sonic.shift – Effects of sustainable urban development measures on the acoustic environment.

The cooperation project between the Institute for Urban Public Health Essen and the Technical University of Berlin will help to close a research gap in terms of knowledge about the immediate and long-term effects of sustainable urban development measures on the acoustic environment.

Various sustainable urban planning interventions in the Ruhr area will be accompanied by longitudinal and high-resolution audio recordings. In addition, comparative recordings are planned at selected locations in the Berlin area to investigate the transferability of the results from the Ruhr area to other locations. The changes in the acoustic environment before, during and/or after the urban planning interventions will be analyzed using (psycho)-acoustic indices developed in the SALVE+ project.

Based on this systematic evaluation of urban planning processes with regard to their effects on the acoustic environment, measures are to be derived that go beyond the approaches of conventional noise reduction measures and characterize the acoustic environment as a resource for the health and well-being of the population.