NCDs prevention and health promotion through training, networking and awareness-raising across the EU

ongoing

"SAFE - Safe Food Advocacy Europe, together with a consortium of partners from across Europe including the Consumer Education and Information Center (Croatia), the Lithuanian Consumer Institute (Lithuania), the Union for Working Consumers of Greece (Greece), the Consumers Defense Union (Italy), ADOC (Italy) and Promote Ukraine (Belgium), have developed a 3-year duration project entitled ""NCDs prevention and health promotion through training, networking and awareness-raising across the EU"" (Preventia) with the overarching aims to: - Reduce health inequalities across the EU; - Decrease the spreading of NCDs across the EU, - Foster cooperation and exchanges between the EU Member States. Through a set of relevant Work Packages and tasks, the project unfolds according to 3 main dimensions: Capacity-building and training, Networking and cooperation and Campaigning and awareness-raising. The project's specific objectives are to: - Enhance the cooperation and peer-learning of civil society across the EU in the fight against NCDs, with a special emphasis on stakeholders from Ukraine; - Encourage the exchanges and best practices and mobility opportunities of health and nutrition workforce across the EU; - Improve health literacy of younger generations on NCDs prevention through training on healthy eating habits and childhood obesity; - Reduce health inequalities across the EU (and beyond) through inclusive activities for vulnerable groups; - Raise awareness of citizens at large through participatory and interactive campaigns; - Empower consumers to make better informed and more nutritious food choices through innovative digital tools; - Analyse and assess national policies related to NCDs prevention; - Advocate for new EU policy approaches based on the Member States’ needs; - Widely and effectively communicate about the project and give visibility to its activities; - To promote and disseminate the project deliverables among targeted audience across the EU."