The members of the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association are the City of Turku, the University of Turku, the Åbo Akademi University, the Turku School of Economics and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. The member organisations of the Association provide expert services to support the goals of the Healthy Cities activities in the Baltic Region.

The City of Turku was the first Finnish city to join the European Healthy Cities network in 1987. Nationally Turku is renowned of its good practises in health promotion, especially in promoting physical activity. Turku has 175 000 inhabitants and is the oldest city in Finland, founded in 1224. Turku will be the European Capital of Culture in 2011 .

Turku University of Applied Sciences  belongs administratively to City of Turku. It is a multi-disciplinary educational institute offering a wide range of degree programmes, many of them cross-disciplinary.

The University of Turku founded in 1920, is an internationally distinguished multidisciplinary scientific university. The university has six faculties of which the largest are the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Åbo Akademi University is a Swedish language university with seven faculties spread over three campuses: Turku, Vaasa and Pietarsaari. Research and teaching activities may be found in humanities, natural sciences, political sciences, chemical engineering, business and administration, theology, education and teachers training as well as social and caring sciences.

The Turku School of Economics provides research and higher education in the field of economic and business sciences. The School offers graduate, postgraduate and continuing education. Offering expert consulting services is and increasing part of the School's activities.