HEPCOM is supported by the EU’s Health programme (2008-2013), The views expressed are purely the authors' own and do not reflect the views of the European Commission

Hepcom

The Learning Platform for Preventing Childhood Obesity in Europe

Giuseppe PetitoBrussels, June 2013

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H E A LT H Y E AT I N G

A N D P H Y S I C A L

A C T I V I T Y

I N L O C A L

C O M M U N I T I E S

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Obesity highlights at European level …

of children and adolescents are overweight,

And of these are obese

The challenge

Over of children who are overweight before

puberty will be overweight in early adulthood

20%

60%

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children in the EU are considered overweight or obese,

with the numbers growing by per year

22M400.000

Source: WHO and European Commission

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… is affecting more and more health and growth of the young generation

The challenge

Risk factor for cardiovascular

diseases

Type II diabetes

Orthopaedic problems

Mental disorders

Underachievement in school

Lower self-esteem

Childhood obesity

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The main project features (1/5)

Why an online platform?

To promote the actual use and up scaling of the existing high quality tools, making them easy accessible and

usable to incorporate in the daily work of policy makers and professional

practitioners.

The project

What will the project aim to

do?

To increase the quality and level of local community and school

interventions all over Europe on promoting healthy eating and physical

activity among children and young people.

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Who is the target

audience?

Policy makers and professional practitioners will directly benefit from the project, as they will gain knowledge

and inspiration from the learning platform, which can assist them to

improve their daily work with health promotion. Therefore it will also have an impact in children and young people

and their families.

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When the platform will be ready?

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The plaform will be released in 2014 and continuously updated on the basis of the feedback received from the stakeholders

collaborating to the project

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The project

Who is involved in the project?

The 21 HEPCOM partners, coming from 16 EU countries, will closely collaborate with: • Local communities: authority on

local or regional level that has the political and economic mandate to plan, develop and implement health promoting activities• Other organizations working on Public Health projects

How is the project funded?

The total budget for the project is about 1,7 million EUR of which about 60% is cofunded by the EC Health Programme

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How local communities

will be engaged?

The project

Local communities will be involved at two different levels: • Need analysis phase focused on how

local authorities manage their obesity prevention intervention and which tools they need in order to improve and qualify their work in this area • Piloting phase focused on coaching and training local communities and schools to use and work actively with HEPCOM learning platform and apply the good practice tools in their daily work in order to develop local strategies and implement concrete interventions

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The project

Which tools we are going to consider?

All methods, guidelines, conceptual frameworks and templates that local communities apply in order to plan and structure their health promoting activities towards children and young people.

How tools will be used for?

Selected tools can be used for improving the following processes:• Policy development, • Strategic planning, • Action planning, • Implementation of interventions /

health promoting activities • Evaluation of interventions / health

promoting activities

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The challenge

The project

The methodology

The project partners

The methodology

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The project will be developed in 4 main phases…

The methodology

A need analysis will be carried out in order to make sure that the design of the

platform is in line with real needs of local communities.

Based on the preparation phase, the HEPCOM learning web platform will be designed, developed and launched for

testing.

To ensure relevance, usability and sustainability of the platform, 45 local

community pilots around Europe will be carried out.

Through national seminars in the countries and through a final European

conference, the final version of the HEPCOM learning platform will be launched

for future use.

Needs analysis

Development of the platform

Piloting

Promoting

From Feb 13 to Oct 13

From Nov 13 to Feb 16

From Apr 14 to Aug 15

From Sept 15 to Feb 2016

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Good practice tools library

… aimed to create an integrated learning system

The methodology

Web Portal

CoachingCollaborative tools

Usersvia web

Info & Promo

Users (also potential)

NeedsAnalysis

and Mapping of good

practices

Vocational Guidance

Stakeholders

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The web portal (1/2)

The methodology

The learning platform will offer several services:

1. Good practice tools repository from former and existing European projects

2. Philosophies, missions and main activities

3. Stories from other local communities

4. Recommendation and guidelines

5. Provide evidence-base and research results

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The web portal (2/2)

The methodology

The learning platform will have severalbenefits:

1. Offer a solid basis for sustainable networking between projects

2. Provide with a better uptake, exploitation and up scaling of initiatives among local communities around Europe that have already been proven successful.

3. Combine health evidence with practical tools and inspiration material and

4. Create an excellent foundation for better health promotion that provides knowledge and a focus on possible changes in the local settings.

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Good practice tools library

The methodology

HEPCOM wants:

• to create an overview of good practices through a needs analysis

• an update of the EU wide overview of community based initiatives to reduce childhood obesity and

• a gap analysis, focused on childhood obesity prevention in local communities and schools.

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The coaching process is related to three phase

The methodology

Promoting practices

Exchangingpractices

Enhancingpractices

The intention is to implement 1 pilot project within each of the 2 target groups for a total of 45 pilot projects

All 45 pilot projects will be evaluated via a self evaluation form and feedback from the evaluation will be used to fine-

tune the learning platform

Coaching will focus on applying strategic approaches and

develop policies and strategies on local level

For local policy makersCoaching will focus on applying

strategic approaches and develop policies and strategies

on local level

For professional practitioners

When

What

How

Why

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The project partners will work together with other actors to promote, exchange and enhance practices

The project partners

Project partners

Local communitie

s

Other stakeholder

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21 HEPCOM partners, coming from 16 EU

countries

Other organization working on Public Health projects

Authority on local or regional level that has

the political and economic mandate to

plan, develop and implement health

promoting activities

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Aarhus University (DK)

Bergen University College (NO)

Business Solutions Europa (BE)

Croatian National Institute of Public Health (HR)

Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO (NL)

Institouto Ygeias tou Paidiou (EL)

Istituto Superiore di Sanità (IT)

Leuphana Universitat Luneburg (DE)

Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft GmbH (AT)

Maastricht University (NL)

Mykolas Romeris University (LT)

National University of Ireland (IE)

P.A.U. Education (ES)

South Denmark European Office (DK)

Steno Diabetes Center (DK)

Stichting euPrevent EMR (NL)

University Blalse Pascal Cermont-Ferrand 2 (FR)

University of Brighton (UK)

University College Syddenmark (DK)

University of eastern Finland (FI)

Universidade do Minho (PT)

The project partners

List of the project partners