Today we had our second work package leader and researcher meeting for the HOPE project (see http://www.hopeproject.eu/) at the EMGO Institute (http://www.emgo.nl/) in Amsterdam. HOPE is a European Commission funded FP7 project. In this project we aim to bring the scientific knowledge on overweight, obesity and their determinants together and use the expertise of researchers all over Europe to help to tackle the obesity epidemic. This project aims to integrate and further enrich the widely available and diverse knowledge on all these topics across Europe and use this information for designing various scenarios based on careful evidence-based epidemiological modelling. This will provide entry-points for policy making, and will help the European Commission and member states to set priorities for curbing the obesity epidemic.
The project also aims to build a network of researchers across Europe active in the further study to inform obesity prevention efforts.
The HOPE team consists of international experts in the field of the study and prevention of obesity, such as Philip James and Tim Lobstein of the International Obesity Task Force (www.iotf.org/), Frank van Lenthe and Anton Kunst of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam (http://www2.eur.nl/fgg/mgz/), Knut Inge Klepp of the University of Oslo (http://www.uio.no/), ILse de Bourdeaudhuij and Lea Maes of Ghent University (http://www.ugent.be/), Adriano Cattaneo of the institute of child health in Trieste (http://www.burlo.trieste.it/), Jean Michel Oppert of INSERM, France (http://www.inserm.fr/fr/), and Agneta Yngve of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden (http://ki.se/).
Today in Amsterdam we prepared a ‘network-ofnetworks meeting’ that will be held preceding the European Congress on Obesity (http://www.eco2008.org/), where we will present the HOPE project to our colleagues from across Europe and where we hope to learn from our colleagues to further inform and target our efforts within the HOPE project.
The project also aims to build a network of researchers across Europe active in the further study to inform obesity prevention efforts.
The HOPE team consists of international experts in the field of the study and prevention of obesity, such as Philip James and Tim Lobstein of the International Obesity Task Force (www.iotf.org/), Frank van Lenthe and Anton Kunst of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam (http://www2.eur.nl/fgg/mgz/), Knut Inge Klepp of the University of Oslo (http://www.uio.no/), ILse de Bourdeaudhuij and Lea Maes of Ghent University (http://www.ugent.be/), Adriano Cattaneo of the institute of child health in Trieste (http://www.burlo.trieste.it/), Jean Michel Oppert of INSERM, France (http://www.inserm.fr/fr/), and Agneta Yngve of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden (http://ki.se/).
Today in Amsterdam we prepared a ‘network-ofnetworks meeting’ that will be held preceding the European Congress on Obesity (http://www.eco2008.org/), where we will present the HOPE project to our colleagues from across Europe and where we hope to learn from our colleagues to further inform and target our efforts within the HOPE project.
1 comment:
I hope you will factor in the effects of addiction to food.
See here
http://www.foodandyou.co.uk
Althea
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