WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop About Shape Up

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Shape Up in a nutshell - I Background: Obesity among young people: - increasing in Europe Health campaigns and health education: - not efficient Collaboration between schools and the community - a lot of hidden and unused potentials International collaboration - lot of hidden and unused potentials

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Shape Up in a nutshell - II A project covering all E.U. Member States based on an innovatory method that empowers children in 26 cities to influence the determinants of child obesity

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Determinants and actions

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop What influence eating patterns?

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop What influence eating patterns? Children’s views

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Physical activity Determinants?

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop What influence body movement patterns? Children’s views

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Models of collaboration

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Collaboration between school and community: challenges and barriers Changes are often defined by external actors from the local community – schools/students are viewed as ’means’ Lack of skills needed by teachers to integrate participation, authentic actions and collaboration in education? Lack of ‘preparation’ of pupils to go out in the community? Lack of ‘preparation’ of the community for ‘acting pupils’? Lack of joint language between main collaboration partners (teachers, key community people, parents…) (e.g. Shape Up philosophy and values)

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Participation: forms and fields

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Realistic Evaluation Contexts - Mechanisms - Outcomes What works, for whom, and under what circumstances?

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Methods 72 pages Methodological Guidebook in all E.U. languages All types of local material for the cities, schools, teachers, parents and children

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Training  Enabled all participants representing 17 cities to meet and work together jointly with the competence centres  Helped the partners to evaluate facilitators and coordinators needs  Participants got acquainted, exchanged ideas and shared experience/knowledge  Three regional meetings – Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Central Europe  Local staff trained on how to engage local promoting groups, train the teachers, use the evaluation tools and implement the project

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Cities and schools Participating schools All participating cities have selected at least three schools. They have already informed them about the project and started discussing about its implementation and to train the teachers. Local Promoting Groups In each city, the members of the local promoting groups are all identified and introduced into the project. Shape Up Staff A local coordinator and a local facilitator work in each city.

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Shape Up Portal

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop School Twinning

WHO European Ministerial Conference on Couteracting Obesity European Commission Workshop Partners Shape Up is a European project supported by the European Commission - Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs. The 26 participating cities bring their own funding to the project. The competence centres (P.A.U. Education, the Danish University of Education, Schulen-ans-Netz, the University of Hull and ABCittà) are also direct contributors. In addition, Shape Up is supported in part by a grant from Kraft Cares, the community partnership programme of Kraft Foods.