HEPCOM: community initiatives to prevent obesity among children and adolescents (2013-2016)
Led in the UK by Dr Nigel Sherriff of the Centre for Health Research (CHR), the long-term objective of this European project is to contribute to preventing obesity among children and young people in the EU. Specific objectives of HEPCOM include:
- To create a systematic overview of good practice tools from former and existing public health and other European projects
- To ensure equal visibility for all public health and other European projects, being relevant for local communities and schools
- To facilitate networking, dissemination and up-scaling of good practice results from public health and other European projects through a web-based learning platform
- To raise awareness and create concrete and innovative interventions in 45 local communities around Europe
- To disseminate project results and good practice throughout Europe
- To ensure sustainability of the learning platform through the development of a sustainability document
Further information
Starting in February 2013, HEPCOM will run for three years and is coordinated by CBO BV in the Netherlands. For further information about the UK project work, contact Dr Nigel Sherriff (N.S.Sherriff@brighton.ac.uk) or Carol Williams (C.Williams2@brighton.ac.uk)
