#healthylongevityinnovation

2021-2030 has been declared the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing by the World Health Organization. Research into healthy longevity and the development of innovative approaches to aging have been a strategic priority at UZH for several years now. With the recently established UZH Healthy Longevity Center (HLC), UZH has a unique position to identify current and future societal challenges and help set the international research and innovation agenda in the field of healthy longevity for years to come.

UZH Healthy Longevity Center

Thanks to a grant awarded by the Velux Stiftung, the University of Zurich established the UZH Healthy Longevity Center (HLC) in 2022. The HLC is a research and innovation center that builds on the Healthy Longevity cluster. In its research activities it promotes and fosters the acquisition and use of data on the heterogeneity, complexity, and context-dependency of functional ability in healthy aging to create paradigm-changing research for healthy longevity. The Center currently includes 6 research and innovation groups spanning topics such as complexity medicine for healthy longevity to digital mental health management. The center has an innovative approach, where sciencebased innovation with societal impact involves the design and implementation of new solutions (e.g., concepts, processes, products, or organizational changes) that aim to improve the wellbeing and welfare of individuals and communities as they age. The Center is housed at a strategically central location near UZH's main buildings and Zurich's main station and will soon open an innovation space.