With its focus on well-being, EUniWell responds to the Council of the European Union’s invitation for member states to pursue a horizontal, cross-sectoral, knowledge-based approach to advance the ‘Economy of Wellbeing’ (24 October 2019), a virtuous circle between society, science and the environment, leading to greater well-being across those dimensions. It implies an understanding of the relations between these dimensions and the capacity to boost their synergies. Well-being thereby offers us a new way to measure progress, beyond GDP and with humane, societal and sustainable developments at the centre