Projects & Collaborations
We are pleased to announce that Ph.d. / Postdoc stipends are available in the collaborative research project ‘Gene-diet interactions in obesity’ (GENDINOB).
The deadline for receipt of applications is 15th March 2010. Further information is available here.
EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity & Health
EASO plays an active role in the EU Platform for Diet, Physical Activity and Health which started in March 2005 with the purpose to create a forum for actors at European level who can commit their membership to engage in concrete actions designed to contain or reverse current trends.
Each year, EASO submits a series of activity commitments and a monitoring report which outlines how the association has achieved these commitments. EASO’s commitments include the organisation of the ECO; Task Force educational activities , Young Investigators United initiatives and participation in EU projects. The performance of all Platform members, in relation to submitted commitments, is independently monitored. The average NGO score is 2.96 (max 4.50) and EASO’s score is 3.75.
HOPE: Health Promotion through Obesity Prevention
HOPE: Health Promotion through Obesity Prevention Across Europe supports and advances the development and implementation of systematic, evidence-based European, national and regional policies effective for the prevention of obesity and its negative consequences on health and health inequalities. The HOPE project wants to bring all the scientific knowledge on overweight, obesity and their determinants together and use the expertise of researchers all over Europe.
EASO is a contributing partner to Work Package 2 of the European Commission-funded HOPE project. Work Package 2 is led by IASO. EASO’s particular added value includes strengthening the Eastern European component of the HOPE networking activities as well as general support for the HOPE programme of work.
EASO Project Involvement
Dietitians Improving the Education and Training Standards
DIETS is an acronym for Dietitians Improving the Education and Training Standards for dieticians across Europe. This Thematic Network already has 120 Partners from 30 European countries who all share a commitment to better nutritional health for the people of Europe.
EASO is a partner in the DIETS Thematic Network. Through the OMTF, PTF and Secretariat, EASO disseminates regular progress updates via the EASO website and e-bulletins, participates in DIETS meetings and helps to prepare project reports, thus giving an important obesity related perspective to the development of the project.
Diet, Genes & Obesity
Diet, Genes and Obesity: Diogenes is a pan-European Program targeting the obesity problem from a dietary perspective: seeking new insights and new routes to prevention.
An innovative multi-disciplinary, multi-centre research project to advance understanding of how obesity can be prevented and treated from a dietary perspective. It integrates studies of dietary, genetic, physiological and psychological/behavioral factors.
EASO member associations, Executive Committee member and Task Force members are all involved in this major European initiative. Diogenes held a satellite meeting during ECO2009.
HELENA
HELENA will provide, for the first time in Europe, harmonized and comparable data about food intake among male and female European adolescents, taking advantage of a computer-based dietary assessment tool.
EASO member associations, Executive Committee member and Task Force members are all involved in this major European initiative. The Helena Project held a satellite meeting during ECO2009.
The IMAGE Project
The IMAGE project has evolved from the DE-PLAN project (“Diabetes in Europe - Prevention using Lifestyle, Physical Activity and Nutritional intervention”), a European Union (EU) public health research project that commenced in 2004. Led by Prof. Jaakko Tuomilehto (University of Helsinki),the objective for the DE-PLAN is to develop the structures for a European prevention management concept which can be implemented into clinical practice. This concept is currently being tested in pilot projects funded by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate C - Public Health.
EASO has had a significant involvement in this project – from drafting the outline project, to writing part of the recommendation, with a special remit to ensure that the weight issue is appropriately represented in the final set of recommendations. EASO Executive Committee members have been key to the development of the project, specifically drafting a chapter on antiobesity pharmacotherapy in the prevention of diabetes.
Joint WHO EC project to monitor progress in improving nutrition and physical activity and preventing obesity in EU countries
EASO, as an important European Association with certain synergies with the project, is a partner in the project – acting as an information provider, as a channel to disseminate results, and as a provider of experts to be invited to meetings etc.
The project aims to develop an information and reporting system to describe progress in strengthening the promotion of healthy nutrition and physical activity, reduce obesity and to illustrate good practices in Europe. Member States will officially endorse data and results before they are entered in a database. National Information Focal Points will assist with this work.
