Limerick Framework for Action
Building on the Okanagan Charter, the Limerick Framework for Action: Advancing the Global Health Promoting Campuses Agenda emphasizes a whole-campus approach to integrate health, well-being, and sustainability across higher education. It drives inclusive participation, partnerships, and measurable progress to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals and create healthy people, healthy places, and a healthy planet. The Framework serves as a guiding tool, empowering action rather than prescribing it, so all actors, regardless of location or stage of development, can take meaningful steps forward.
Okanagan Charter
The International Health Promoting Universities & Colleges Network is guided by the Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting University and Colleges, which calls on post-secondary schools to embed health into all aspects of campus culture and to lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally. Created in June 2015, the Charter provides institutions with a common language, principles, and framework to become health and wellbeing promoting campuses.
The Charter has two Calls to Action:
1. To embed health into all aspects of campus culture, across the administration, operations and academic mandates.
2. To lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally
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Edmonton Charter
Developed in 2005 at the 2nd International Conference on Health Promoting Universities in Edmonton, Canada, delegates were asked to participate in the development of the Edmonton Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Institutions of Higher Education – the first international charter focused on the higher education setting.
The purpose of the Charter was to:
Identify what it means to be a “health promoting” university/institution of higher education.
Create dialogue and promote understanding about health promotion concepts within the university/higher education setting
Provide a tool for creating a “health promoting” university/institution of higher education for those who want to influence decision makers.