New policy tools challenge Europe to act against youth obesity
Our new policy indexes show the status of nutrition & physical activity policy in Europe and enable young people to advocate for better policies to tackle obesity.
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Six considerations for organising a multi-actor Dialogue Forum
A set of considerations has now been published on how to establish multi-actor Dialogue Forums.
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CO-CREATE project publishes novel methods for youth engagement and benchmarking of national obesity prevention policies
EU Research project pioneers new methods for youth engagement in policy research and development, aiming to give young people a voice in decisions that affect their health.
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Launch of the NOURISHING and MOVING policy indexes
As part of the CO-CREATE project, WCRF International are launching two policy indexes rating and ranking the design of nutrition (NOURISHING) and physical activity (MOVING) policies from 30 countries in Europe.
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Learning from the Arts’: Youth Taskforce reports on WHO Europe’s expert meeting on NCD prevention
One of CO-CREATE’s Youth Taskforce members, Mafalda Gonçalves, has composed the below report on the WHO Europe-led event “Expert meeting on NCD prevention and control: learning from the arts”.
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CO-CREATE at Youth4Health event in Tirana
Members of the CO-CREATE Youth Taskforce were delighted to attend the WHO Europe-led Youth4Health - Health and Well-being Forum for Youth” in Tirana, from 25-27 October 2022.
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Policy Briefs assess data on socioeconomics of obesity and pan-European SSB consumption
Two CO-CREATE policy briefs have been produced by researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, with support from teams at World Cancer Research Fund, World Obesity Federation, EAT and World Health Organisation.
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CO-CREATE joint workshop at ICO 2022
Saturday 22 October, CO-CREATE and sister project STOP provided innovative ideas and learnings on addressing childhood obesity.
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Preventing obesity across Europe: A call to action
CO-CREATE, in collaboration with three other European projects is calling on the EU and national governments to commit to new policies and research investment to help prevent NCDs and improve nutrition and physical activity policies across the region.
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CO-CREATE joins forces with three other European projects for a 3-day policy symposium
The symposium "Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe" takes place 14-16 June in Brussels.
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Youth leaders meet in Norway to discuss policy solutions to childhood obesity
By 2030, obesity will affect over 100 million children and over 150 million adolescents worldwide. This weekend, 70 young change-makers are meeting outside of Oslo, Norway, to share and co-create policy ideas addressing the rising obesity across Europe.
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World Obesity Day 2022: Everybody needs to act – with and for youth
This World Obesity Day, everyone needs to act. We need to join forces to advocate for action to address rising levels of childhood obesity and to improve the systems that contribute to obesity around the world.
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Stronger together – CO-CREATE joins forces with other EU projects to address the childhood obesity epidemic
Between June-September, 2021 a joint World Café series was convened with STOP, JA Best-ReMaP, and PEN.
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CO-CREATE Dialogue Forums: on the road to 20
On September 20th, 2021, CO-CREATE youth met with policymakers, business leaders, and experts at the first in-person National Dialogue Forum in Cascais, Portugal.
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Transforming Food Systems: what role do you(th) play?
On August 17th, the CO-CREATE Youth Taskforce and Consortium convened with youth activists from Bite Back 2030 and Act4Food Act4Change to celebrate International Youth Day.
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Calling Global Change Makers - Join us for the CO-CREATE Youth Conference
CO-CREATE will welcome young people from Europe to the CO-CREATE Youth Conference in Norway this March 2022!
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Adolescents views on drivers of obesity
Working with young people is at the heart of CO-CREATE and the first way they were directly involved in the research was in creating ‘system maps.
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WCRF MOVING database celebrates its first birthday!
The MOVING database is a repository of global data on physical activity policy actions.
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World Café - Let's talk about childhood obesity
We are delighted to welcome you to the second event of the World Café series hosted by European projects STOP, CO-CREATE, PEN and JA Best-ReMaP to take place on June 29th 2021 at 13:00 CEST
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Generation changemakers: How youth are transforming the UN Food Systems Summit
This year, the United Nations is convening the first Food Systems Summit aimed at empowering people to leverage food systems to deliver progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
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