Focus on Youth, Football and Alcohol

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Focus on Youth, Football and Alcohol (F.Y.F.A.) This project will contribute towards efforts to reduce alcohol related harm with special focus on underage drinking and on heavy episodic drinking. It will aim at generating good practices targeting the reduction of heavy episodic drinking among young people and develop guidelines for youth sport clubs regarding alcohol across EU. F.Y.F.A. project will facilitate networking to build EU and national capacities. It will among others: 1) To review policies related to young people, sport, marketing and alcohol with particular focus on football on international, national and local level. 2) To interview relevant stakeholders and decision makers at international, national and local level regarding young people, sport, marketing and alcohol. 3) To identify one local youth football club in six Member States, where young people, aged 13-15 participate in regular sporting activities 4) To interview football club management to find out: attitudes, strategies to reduce drinking and harms for young people 5) To interview 8 young people in six countries to discuss and to make recommendations to policy makers about young people, sport, marketing and alcohol. 6) To make a video in three settings, using ESPAD framework – with 6 young women and 6 young men aged between 13 and 15 from three countries. 7) To amalgate the country videos into one video with sub-titles for different countries which will be produced and disseminated. 8) Strengthening capacity of the stakeholders and partners involved through EU networking and good practice exchange. Excluding tobacco and caffeine, alcohol is the psychoactive substance used most by young people in the European Union. Underage drinking and heavy episodic drinking of alcohol is of particular concern in Europe because it is related to the health and welfare of the population. A number of studies have linked alcohol use by young people to various problems, both short and long term.