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HEPS- Development and implementation of a national policy for promoting healthy eating and physical activity for schools in Europe

The HEPS project which started on 1st May 2008 is co-funded by the European Commission for the next three years. It is working towards reducing childhood obesity through improved practice in the school setting. Across member states there are many initiatives on reducing the number of children who are overweight with a practical focus towards developing activities, programmes and teaching methods. However, currently no EU member state has effective national school policy in operation. HEPS aims to bridge this gap by being a policy development project on a national level across Europe. HEPS will help to implement these programmes in a sustainable way at school level. HEPS will develop a Schoolkit. The HEPS Schoolkit is to help member states develop national policy to promote healthy eating and physical activity in schools based on the health promoting school approach. It consists of the following six components:

1. HEPS guidelines: a set of principles on promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools, meant for organisations working on the national level in Europe;

2. HEPS advocacy guide: a tool assisting those advocating for the development of national school policy towards promoting healthy eating and physical activity;

3. HEPS inventory tool: a set of quality criteria for school programmes on promoting healthy eating and physical activity;

4. HEPS tool for schools: a manual that will help schools in the member nations to introduce and implement a school programme on promoting healthy eating and physical activity;

5. HEPS teacher training resource: a programme that will be used to train teacher trainers in promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools;

6. HEPS monitoring tool: used to monitor how effectively the HEPS schoolkit is being implemented in each member state of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools called “SHE” (= Schools for Health in Europe”; www.schoolsforhealth.eu”). The Leuphana University of Lüneburg is responsible for the development of the HEPS inventory tool.

Further informations

Time scale: 2008-2011

Project partner:

The NIGZ (The Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Prevention, Woerden) is coordinator of the HEPS project in collaboration with:&nb

  • Free University of Brussels, Belgium
  • Welsh Ministers, Wales
  • Danish University of Education, Denmark
  • Institute for Child Health, Greece
  • University Maastricht, Netherlands
  • NHS Health Scotland
  • Warsaw University, Poland
  • University of Bergen, Norway
  • Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
  • National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Austria
  • State Environmental Health Centre, Ministry of Health, Lithuania.

Project staff

29.04.2011, IfP