The brochure of SHE Network has been revised and can now be downloaded.

The SHE Secretariat also made a communication plan which can also be downloaded.

Innovative approaches and promising practices by European and international health promotion bodies to counteract obesity and improve health equity.

This new edition of the report describes projects that are running in twenty-four different countries in Europe, and also four countries outside the EU (Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States). It has become a ve

The IUHPE has published a new document: Promoting Health in Schools: from Evidence to Action. This document complements the recommendations to establish and sustain health promotion in schools set out in the Achieving Health Promoting Schools: Guidelines for Promoting Health in Schools. It is an advocacy document for the health and education sectors to undertake school health promotion act

NIGZ received funding from the EU for an operating grant for the SHE network. Part of the operating grant is the organisation of the first SHE Summer School in 2010. The objective is to design and to deliver a summer school for the main SHE stakeholders. Another part of the work is to evaluate the work carried out under the operating grant SHE 2010, both on process and

The final programme is out!

20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion will take place in Geneva, Switzerland

The thematic scope of the Conference will particularly focus on:
Sustainable environment and health: What are the inter-linkages between urbanization, environmental degradation, environmental justice and health development?
Equitable and susta

The EU Divison Agriculture and Rural Development has launched a new campaign about healthy eating and exercise. During eight weeks three Tasty-Bunch teams will be travelling in a bus through Belgium, North of France, UK, Republic of Ireland, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, each day visiting two schools. They aim to reach 18.000 children in 180 schools with their message: Eat it, Drink

To assist Member States in Diet, Physical Activity and Health implementation at the country level, WHO produced the document 'School Policy Framework, implementation of the global strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. The overall purpose is this toool is to guide policy-makers at national and subnational levels in the development of policies that promote healthy eating and ph

Three independent research reports are published which contribute to the evidence of the positive benefits Healthy Schools is bringing about to the health and well-being of children and young people:

An Evaluation of the National Healthy Schools Programme: Interim Report (NatCen, 2009).

Relationship between National Healthy School Status (N

This document aims to set the scene for discussing young people's participation in different domains that have an impact on their lives. It outlines the meaning and different interpretations of the concept of 'participation' before reviewing why participation is an important issue in relation to young people and society. It then describes different forms, modes or qualities of parti

Involving young people more actively in developing EU health policies is the aim of an initiative launched by the European Commissioner for Health, Androulla Vassiliou at the conference on Youth Health in Brussels on 9 and 10 July 2009. As part of the Youth Health initiative, the Commission has set up the website "Be Healthy - Be Yourself" accessible from the EU Health Portal and avai

The Youth Opinion publications provide a platform for the European Youth Forum member organisations to voice their opinions. This issue includes information regarding health and how young people are involved in the differnt issues affecting them.  Some burning issues such as alcohol, drugs or HIV/AIDS are tackled in the publication, as well as the determinants of health such as sport. You

The Commission - DG SANCO invites young people between 15-25 to take part in a competition with health-related videos, posters and pictures.

Taking part in the European youth health competition will give you the opportunity to share your views across Europe about the health issues that concern you most - from obesity, smoking and drinking to the effects of poor housing and poverty - and

Together with the adoption of the Communication "An EU Strategy for Youth - Investing and Empowering", outlining a new youth cooperation framework in the European Union, the Commission is also publishing a Youth Report. The Youth Report is a compilation of data, statistics and brief analyses on the situation of young people in Europe. It provides an overview of the situation in the EU Member St

Two briefing papers on the relationships between physical activity and mental health improvement in children and young people are now available to download from the NHS Health Scotland website. These papers are based on an evidence review carried out by the University of Glasgow for NHS Health Scotland.  In December 2008, NHS Health Scotland held 3 half-day workshops with representatives f

The report from the fourth data collection of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) is published. In it data on more than 100,000 European students are presented in a large number of diagrams, maps and tables.

For more information click here

The Commission - DG SANCO invites young people between 15-25 to take part in a competition with health-related videos, posters and pictures.

Taking part in the European youth health competition will give you the opportunity to share your views across Europe about the health issues that concern you most - from obesity, smoking and drinking to the effects of poor housing and poverty - and

During the second SHE assembly meeting, held 11-13 February 2009, the SHE strategic plan 2008-2012 was ratified. The SHE strategic plan describes the objectives, core values and pillars and position for the SHE network until 2012.

The complete text of the SHE strategic plan can be downloaded from the SHE website.

The

Better schools through health: third European conference on health promoting schools
15-17 June 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania

The third European Conference on Health Promoting Schools acts as a European forum to invest in school health promotion and is meant for policy makers, researchers and practitioners. There will be active participation of children and young people. The deadline fo

This constitutes a long-term undertaking for the Council of Europe, and should therefore be partnered with continuous action. As a contribution to the development of this important strategy, the Spanish Chairmanship will organise a conference in the spring of 2009 in Toledo on the theme of children in the justice system. 

For more information about "Building a Europe for

An opportunity for over 1000 participants from across Canada and beyond to build skills and knowledge by networking and attending various professional development sessions.
Provides sessions that support the implementation of the Physical Education and Health curricula, strong athletic and intramural programs; and the development of healthy

The WHO/HBSC Forum 2007 process, dedicated to "Social cohesion for mental well-being among adolescents", engaged intersectoral policy-makers, researchers and programme managers from 17 Member States in considering the following issues:
- Translating research into policies and action.
- Intersectoral action.
- Addressing health inequities.
- Involving young people.

The European Commission held a major School Fruit Scheme (SFS) conference on 15 and 16 December 2008 in Brussels. This conference is one of the Commission initiatives in the fight against obesity and for the promotion of healthy life styles.
The aim of the conference was to exchange views, ideas and experiences on how to design and manage schemes to provide healthy food for healthy childr

From 7-11 December the Youth Partnership organised a seminar for researchers working on the topics of health and well-being of young people in Europe. The Partnership is a close colaboration between the Council of Europe and the European Commission. The Partnership provides an added value to the programmes of the two institutions and their institutional partners, fosters co-operation, complemen

The document "School Policy Framework: Implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health" has been published. The overall purpose of this tool is to guide policy-makers at national and sub-national levels in the development and implementation of policies that promote healthy eating and physical activity in the school setting through changes in environment, behaviour an

SHE network has publiced the second issue of the SHE newsletter.

New plans to give free fruit and vegetables to schoolchildren - and extend the range of dairy products already available.

An estimated 22 million children in the EU are overweight. More than 5 million are obese - and it gets worse: the figure is expected to rise by around 400 000 every year.

Eating habits formed in childhood are usually carried over into adulthood and then passed

A competition for 12-18 year old adolescents.
Design a postcard that makes your friends think about healthy food, but also makes them realise it is very easy to stigmatise people just because they are fat.
Prize to win: a Nintendo Wii, (and possibly printing and distribution of your postcard).
Jury: Pedro Teixeira (Eurobese), an artist and a PR-person
Closing date: Octob

An EU High-Level Conference "Together for Mental Health and Well-being", taking place on 13 June 2008 in Brussels, established the "European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being".

The Austrian Gesunde Schule (Healthy Schools) project has developed the Gesunde Schule quality standards. The standards can be downloaded on the website www.gesundeschule.at. An English translation will be made available later in the project.

On 17th June a new international report1 from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children: WHO Collaborative Cross-National Study: 'Inequalities in Young People's Health' will be published.  

This international report from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) World Health Organization collaborative cross-national study

The EU high level conference "Together for mental health and well-being" will be broadcasted live on  http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/news/live_streaming/highlevelmhconf_en.htm All day long, you will have the possibility to watch the different speakers taking part at the Conference.

A new study in the Journal of School Health reveals that children with healthy diets perform better in school than children with unhealthy diets.

More information: Blackwell Publishing

Physical activity and environment. Guidance on the promotion and creation of physical environments that support increased levels of physical activity.
This guidance offers evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the physical environment, of amongst others schools, to encourage physical activity. It demonstrates the importance of such improvements and the need to evaluat

This book brings together recent international scholarship on the links between education and health, and recent research evidence evaluating the processes and outcornes of health promoting school initiatives.
The publication arises out of the Education and Health in Partnership conference, which took place in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, in September 2002. The key aims of th

Press release 

Since 2007 the Schools for Health in Europe network (SHE network) is being coordinated by the Netherlands institute for health promotion, NIGZ.  NIGZ can call itself a WHO Collaborating Centre for School Health Promotion.

The Schools for Health in Europe network is the continuation of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools, operating since 1991.

There are already 3 million obese children in Europe and this figure is rising by an estimated 400,000 a year. Bad diet and a lack of physical activity are believed to be the causes. They form a part of the 14 million overweight people in the EU. This condition can lead to osteoporosis and heart disease - which can develop early. Next week MEPs will debate measures to tackle obesity. One option

With regard to the food and physical activity offered at secondary schools, improvements can be made that can contribute to the reduction of overweight among the youth. This was shown in the first national survey on the prevention of overweight at Dutch secondary schools.

The survey cited canteens and/or soda vending machines in almost 90% of the schools, and candy dispensers in 77%. Mor

Students of Radauti School no. 3 in Romania have won the European prize in the EU Mini-chefs drawing contest. The drawing contest was launched through the website http://eu.mini-chefs.eu/ which was launched in preparation of The European Day of Healthy Food and Cooking. The aim of this day is to encourage children to eat and cook health

Welcoming the European Commission's intention to develop a Community framework for safe, high quality and efficient health services, the IUHPE has called on the Commission to define and progressively raise the standards of effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention practice in

Candace Currie was invited to participate in the Economic and Social Research Council/ Department for Education and Skills joint seminar series entitled ‘Debating childhood: understanding the evidence'. She gave a presentation at one of two public policy seminars that took place in March 2007 in London. The seminar was focussed on Risk Taking and her paper was on ‘Social pressur

The IUHPE has warmly welcomed a proposal from the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate of the European Commission, for a new overarching strategic framework -with health promotion at its core - to set aims and objectives to guide future EU work on health.

In its response, the IUHPE has drawn attent