Health4EUkids

• The "Health4EUkids" specific objectives are:

• To increase data and survey the requirements and prerequisites for each Member State to implement the proposed best practices

• To strengthen a cooperative approach in tackling childhood obesity by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and learning skills among Member States

• To select and implement actions according two best practices Grünau moves and Smart Family that provide the best opportunity to tackle childhood obesity among participating Member States

• To improve the planning and development of the policies to tackle childhood obesity in Member States at the European, national, regional and local level using either of best practices

• To facilitate transferability and sustainability of Best Practices to Member States

• The expected results focus on the identification of concrete challenges in the prevention of non-communicable diseases and policy solutions in the form of best practices and innovative solutions for collective action between the Member States and the European Commission, to tackle this important public health challenges.

• Health4EUKids aims to support Member States in implementing best practices and held promotion strategies. This involves a coordinated approach across two technical work packages for transfering best practices to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent chuildhood obesity. A further four management and support work packages will ensure that a project's technical outputs reach the right audiences, are implemented in a sustainable way and meet ethical standards.

• WP1: Coordination
  Ensuring efficient and effective project coordination, communication, and decision-making to achieve the project's objectives and deliverables. The management team is responsible for organizing and facilitating project meetings, maintaining communication channels among project partners, monitoring progress, and ensuring compliance with project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

• WP2: Dissemination and Communication
  Developing and implementing effective communication strategies and activities to promote the project's goals, outcomes, and results to a wider audience. The communication team is responsible for creating and maintaining the project's website, social media accounts, and other communication channels, producing high-quality promotional materials, organizing events, and engaging stakeholders.

• WP3: Evaluation
  Designing and implementing an evaluation framework to measure the project's progress, outcomes, and impact against its objectives and expected results.

• WP4: Transferability and sustainability
  To provide an added value in the policymaking process at the EU and national level, by ensuring the development of guidance by each specific work package on how existing EU policies and tools can support Member States in tackling childhood obesity and health promotion.
  General objective of this work package is to focus on governance and systems, that is, on Health and Equity in All Policies at local, regional, national and EU levels, with a broad vision of society.

• WP5: Grünau moves
  Main objective of this work package is to transfer this best practice to a collection of deprived neighbourhoods in different countries around Europe. "Grünau moves" is a complex multilevel long-term intervention with focus on social work and community organizing.
  It is a participatory intervention with a vocation for sustainability and culturally adapted with particular consideration of social and environmental conditions. The intervention focuses on building strong relationships, networks, and social bonds, transparency, trust and activation.

• WP6: Smart family
  Support Member States to develop a monitoring system on childhood obesity adapted to the national contexts, well suited to policy requirements and sustainable over time. This work package will be based in the "Smart Family" approach that provide professionals with a method and tools (cards, picture folder, website) for health counselling and targets families expecting a baby or having children aged 0-12 years.

As main beneficiaries, Fisabio and the General Directorate of Public Health (DGSP) coordinate the transfer of the "Grünau Moves" best practice, which is being adapted and transferred to six European countries through 16 pilot projects in vulnerable neighborhoods.

Grünau Moves is a physical activity program aimed at combating childhood obesity by promoting healthy living environments, including regular physical exercise and dietary changes. The practice focuses on promoting conditions for children to participate in fun and dynamic environments in order to increase physical activity and improve overall health. The ultimate goal is to enable children in various regions to adopt healthier lifestyles and prevent obesity, addressing a major public health problem. This transfer enables other nations to benefit from its proven success in the Grünau district of Leipzig, Germany. It is being transferred to the other European countries through the Health4EUkids project by creating environments that:

- Promote health (in kindergartens and schools) by increasing awareness, knowledge and skills, professional self-esteem and cooperation among local actors;

- Encourage physical activity and health through promotion and persuasion of policy makers: changes in street design and youth welfare planning;

- Increase physical activity and access to healthy food for families and children, focusing on social norms, recognition and self-esteem.

This transfer is being carried out in the following pilot intervention areas:

Belgium

Sciensano
Flanders - Maasmechelen municipality
Flanders - Eeklo municipality

Spain

Consellería de Sanidade - Xunta de Galicia
Galicia - Ponteareas municipality
Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana
Valencia - El Raval (St. Agustí), Cullera
Valencia - La Coma neighborhood, Paterna municipality
BIOSISTEMAK
Basque Country - Erandio municipality
Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Fundación Progreso y Salud
Andalusia - Polígono Sur district, 6 neighborhoods (Sevilla)
Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears
Balearic Islands - Llevant Sud district, 3 neighborhoods (Palma)
Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla
Torrelavega - La Inmobiliaria neighborhood
Torrelavega - Covadonga neighborhood

Greece

Dioikisi 6is Ygeionomikis Perifereias Peloponnisou, Ionion Nýson, Ipeirou kai Dytikis Elladas i University of Patras
Patras, 2nd district, Achaia Prefecture

Hungary

Nemzeti Népegészségügyi Központ
Budapest district III - Obuda-Bekasmegyer, one school
Pest county - Jászkarajenő municipality, one school

Malta

Ministry for Health - Government of Malta
Hamrun - Northern Harbour district, Hamrun town

Portugal

Ministério da Saúde - República Portuguesa
Alto Alentejo - Alter do Chão municipality 
Alto Alentejo - Portalegre municipality 

• Competent Authority

• Also, Fisabio and the General Directorate of Public Health (DGSP) act as the Competent Authority of the project in Spain. Therefore, they coordinate the participation at national level of the affiliated entities:

Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP)

Consellería de Sanidade de Galicia (CSG)

Kronikgune

Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)

Fundación Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL)

Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa)

Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS) i Fundación Pública Andaluza Progreso y Salud (FPS)