Projects
We collaborate with other public health and social actors on many European and international projects and Joint Actions.
Through our project work, we enable collaboration. We help design policy, drive implementation, and advance research in the field of health inequalities and determinants of health.
Current projects and EU Joint Actions
Led by EuroHealthNet and funded under the EU4Health programme, Schools4Health (2023-2025) strives to introduce, strengthen, and sustain the adoption of participatory health promoting school approaches (HPS). The initiative is working with schools to analyse, implement, and evaluate good practices in the fields of healthy nutrition, physical activity, and mental health - as an entry point to better embed HPS approaches and health equity in educational settings. To this end, Schools4Health aims to demonstrate the importance of providing the right conditions for children and adolescents to:
- Adopt healthier behaviours
- Promote active engagement across the school community
- Improve academic performance and health literacy, and
- Address societal challenges like equity, climate change and environmental degradation.
- Find all Schools4Health outputs on our website.
- Read more on Schools4Health here.
BEST-COST is a research initiative aiming to improve methodologies for understanding the socioeconomic cost of environmental stressors, with a focus on air and noise pollution.
The initiative aims to improve burden of disease based methods for estimating the socioeconomic cost of environmental stressors, and to develop a coherent methodological framework to assess social inequalities.
BEST-COST will inform better policymaking across Europe.
EuroHealthNet leads on communications, dissemination and exploitation activities.
BeWell aims to support the upskilling and reskilling of Europe's health and care workforce for a digital and sustainable future.
The initiative builds comprehensive curricula and training programmes targeting all professionals of the health workforce, including health students, health professionals and professionals of emerging occupations.
EuroHealthNet is helping shape the blueprint skills strategy for green and digital skills by developing an evaluative 'Theory of Change' framework, which underpins the importance of health promotion, public health, and equity.
BlueAdapt investigates how climate change affects coastal water and its impact on human health.
It develops tools for policymakers and citizens, such as early warning systems and safe swimming apps. Partners are developing an extended One Health conceptual framework which will link with existing models of ecological public health, while taking into account health equity considerations.
EuroHealthNet is helping extend the framework by leading the policy work, engaging with policymakers and developing recommendations to facilitate the uptake of BlueAdapt results.
FEAST aims to advance research and innovation in supporting the creation of a healthy and sustainable EU food system.
It leverages current best practice and co-designs novel solutions with food system stakeholders, including diverse underserved groups, to identify how they can be supported to benefit from healthier and more sustainable dietary behaviour.
EuroHealthNet leads the co-design of policy recommendations for engaging stakeholders, supporting the transition towards sustainable diets.
Icehearts Europe aims to integrate mental health into the grassroots of sport programmes, aiming to benefit the wellbeing of disadvantaged children. By scaling up at European level, Icehearts aims to do this by using the Finnish Icehearts model, which uses team sports as a tool for engaging children with social work.
The final goal is to implement the developed Icehearts model in five European countries.
EuroHealthNet gathers and assesses barriers and opportunities to facilitate implementation across pilot countries.
Invest4Health aims to incentivise innovative financing for health promotion and disease prevention using a model called 'smart capacitating investment' (SCI). This model ensures financial benefits outweigh initial costs, providing sustainable returns.
Objectives include improving SCI communication, developing SCI-compatible business and finance models, and creating a collaborative platform for governing SCI in health promotion and prevention.
EuroHealthNet leads the work package on operational readiness and capacity building.
Mentality aims to transfer and disseminate promising practices in mental health care, with a specific focus on children, healthcare and other care workers, people with pre-existing mental health problems and psychosocial disabilities, migrants, and service providers.
Partners collaborate to implement best practices in their respective countries, host training events and produce informational and educational materials.
EuroHealthNet is a key partner in the Consortium, focusing on the transfer and implementation of good practices for mental health and social inclusion.
The EU Joint Action PERCH advances European efforts to improve vaccination rates for HPV across the European Union. It provides training activities for health professionals on vaccination communication and promotes national vaccination campaigns.
EuroHealthNet’s role is to support the Joint Action in the understanding of the health inequalities related to the uptake of HPV vaccination.
PSLifestyle aims to close the gap between climate awareness and individual action.
The initiative develops a digital app to help citizens get informed about the environmental impact of their day-to-day lives as well, inspiring them to think about their current habits and how they could be changed through smart everyday actions.
EuroHealthNet supports this initiative by ensuring diverse participation and sharing learnings for future implementation.
Resonate investigates the impact of nature-based therapy (NbT) on health, environment, society, and the economy. By studying existing practices and implementing new ones, it aims to create practical tools and to increase the use of NbT in healthcare across Europe.
EuroHealthNet is leading a work package analysing the health equity impacts of the initiative’s case studies, and developing greater clarity about the challenges, barriers, needs, and opportunities of NbT.
RIVER-EU investigates how health systems impact vaccine uptake in underserved communities, focusing on two vaccines, MMR and HPV.
This initiative will collect evidence on health system determinants of vaccine uptake levels, and develop strategies to address barriers and increase trust in the healthcare system.
EuroHealthNet leads RIVER-EU's work package on communication and dissemination.
Previous projects and EU Joint Actions
AFE-INNOVNET (2014-2016)
AFE-INNOVNET aimed to create a broad EU-wide network of stakeholders to develop innovative, evidence-based solutions for active and healthy ageing and age-friendly environments.
The initiative elaborated best practices and methodologies to help local and regional authorities to assess the socioeconomic impact of age-friendly environments. It developed key tools for assessment and implementation, and launched the EU Covenant on Demographic Change, mobilising over 350 stakeholders.
EuroHealthNet contributed by providing expertise and coordination.
JA Best-ReMap (2022-2026)
Best-ReMaP was an EU Joint Action aimed to contribute to the creation of an environment that ensures healthy food by helping to improve the quality of food supplied to EU citizens.
It developed a standardised system for monitoring food reformulation, established guidelines for reducing unhealthy food marketing to children, and enhanced public procurement practices for healthier food options across Europe.
EuroHealthNet supported this effort by transferring and integrating results into EU policy through policy dialogues.
CHAIN (2019-2024)
CHAIN Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research in Norway brings together academia, public health experts, the UN system and civil society organisations to examine the causes and extent of health inequalities and identify solutions to decrease disparities.
It aims create a global transformation in actionable health inequalities research.
EuroHealthNet led the work bridging research, policy and practice, and developed communcations materials, including study factsheets and annual reports to support and disseminate CHAIN's work.
JA CHRODIS (2014-2017)
CHRODIS was an EU Joint Action, which aimed to share best practices among EU Member States to address chronic diseases, particularly focusing on prevention, multi-morbidity, and diabetes.
The initiative developed practical tools and guidelines for chronic disease management and fostered collaboration among stakeholders.
EuroHealthNet led dissemination efforts and co-led a work strand with the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) focused on identifying, selecting, and implementing effective practices in this area.
JA CHRODIS+ (2017-2020)
CHRODIS+ was an EU Joint Action which followed up from CHRODIS (2014-2017). The initiative fought chronic diseases in Europe by sharing successful prevention, patient care, and management, with the aim of lowering healthcare costs and improving quality of life for Europeans.
The initiative refined and expanded practical tools, deeper integration of multi-morbidity strategies, and dissemination of successful interventions and policies.
EuroHealthNet coordinated the work of the Crossing Bridges initiative.
Crossing Bridges (2011-2012)
Crossing Bridges supported EU Member States in implementing Health in All Policies (HiAP). It created tools and training to turn HiAP principles into practical public health improvements.
It investigated inter-sectorial collaboration in Education and Transport, and developed capacities of national and regional Institutes of Public Health for implementing HiAP through assessments and an interactive training workshop.
EuroHealthNet coordinated the work of the Crossing Bridges initiative.
Dialogical-Work (2022-2024)
Dialogical-Work aimed to improve collaboration among healthcare, social and educational professionals by providing training in integrated approaches to address complex societal challenges. It equiped professionals with the skills needed to work together effectively across sectors.
The initiative set up Training Labs for implementing dialogical approaches, and developed formation modules to educate tutors in creating multi-professional teams adaptable to changing environments.
EuroHealthNet has an advisory role and is involved in the evaluation of the initiative.
Drivers (2012-2015)
Drivers investigated how early childhood development, fair employment, and social protection affect health inequality.
It analysed existing research, policy briefs and advocacy tools, including new methods to guide policymakers in tackling these issues.
EuroHealthNet researched the best methodologies for effective advocacy and knowledge transfer and translation.
Equity Action (2011-2014)
Equity Action supported EU Member States to develop tools to address health inequalities within their policies. It identified tools like Health Impact Assessments and Health Equity Audits, as well as learning from best practices to better adress health equity in policymaking.
The initiative focused on collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve healthcare access across regions, and organised a conference bringing together experts, officials and policymakers from accross the EU.
EuroHealthNet members were involved throughout the initiative and EuroHealthNet led a work package on engaging stakeholders.
ESI Funds for Health (2018-2019)
The ESI Funds for Health initiative mapped and assessed over 7,000 health-related initiative supported by the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds. It also contributed to building the capacities of relevant actors for the effective use of funds.
EuroHealthNet worked within a Consortium of partners to explore the impacts the ESI Funds had on health by mapping EU Member State programming and initiative spending. The idea was to uncover the extent to which the funds support various health-related interventions.
Health4LGBTI (2016-2018)
Health4LGBTI was a pilot initiative aimed at reducing health inequalities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. The initiative developed research to better understand the specific health inequalities experienced by LGBTI people, and developed training guidelines, which sparked implementation across EU Member States.
EuroHealthNet was part of the Consortium that explored the health needs and challenges faced by LGBTI people and analysed the key barriers faced by health professionals when providing care for LGBTI people.
IMMUNION (2021-2023)
IMMUNION aimed to improve vaccine confidence and uptake across EU Member States. Building on learnings from vaccination efforts at national, regional and global level, IMMUNION increased stakeholder collaboration to address issues of access to accurate information about vaccination.
It provided training and resources to improve communication, especially with disadvantaged communities.
Led by EuroHealthNet, the initiative brought together members of the Coalition for Vaccination, as well as partners across the EU with the ultimate goal to increase vaccine confidence and uptake.
INHERIT (2016-2019)
INHERIT examined how our daily choices affect our health, environment, and fairness. This large-scale initiative sought solutions to promote healthy and sustainable behaviours for a better future. INHERIT resulted in the analysis of case studies, the development of policy recommendations and practical tools, including a toolkit and an online learning module.
Coordinated by EuroHealthNet, the initiative brought together experts from the health, environment and other sectors, including technology, to investigate policies, practices and innovations.
IROHLA (2012-2015)
IROHLA aimed to develop evidence-based guidelines to improve health equity in ageing populations. The initiative reviewed existing health literacy programs and designed a comprehensive plan for Europe. This plan, incorporating input from various stakeholders, provided evidence-based interventions to address the needs of ageing populations.
EuroHealthNet was responsible for communication and dissemination.
Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE) (2018-2021)
JAHEE was an EU Joint Action aimed at improving health and wellbeing of European citizens and achieving greater equity in health outcomes across all groups in society. The initiative also included a specific focus on disadvantaged groups and migrants. It resulted in the development of strategies, policy recommendations and best practices to support EU Member States in reducing health inequalities across Europe.
EuroHealthNet contributed to JAHEE by facilitating policy development, knowledge exchange, and coordination.
Label2Enable (2022-2024)
Label2Enable aimed at supporting the development and implementation of an EU quality label for health apps, enhancing trust and accessibility across EU Member States while promoting equitable access to reliable health technologies.
The initiative helped identify reliable apps, improve healthcare accessibility, and create a more sustainable health ecosystem.
EuroHealthNet supported the initiative by testing the label with the target audience, contributing to better digital health literacy.
Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality (2020-2021)
EuroHealthNet joined Med Dialogue in December 2020 to improve access to public health information in Middle Eastern and North African countries during COVID-19. The initiative provided expertise for webinars and advocacy aimed at journalists and public health officials.
EuroHealthNet supported the initiative's coordinator, the Maharat Foundation in Lebanon, by bringing an EU dimension to the initiative and supporting communication and policy activities with relevant expertise.
Quality Action (2013-2016)
Quality Action improved HIV prevention effectiveness in Europe. It trained specialists and developed tools to ensure high-quality prevention programs across EU Member States.
EuroHealthNet contributed expertise in public health policy and strategic coordination to enhance the effectiveness of HIV prevention efforts across Europe.
JA RARHA (2014-2016)
RARHA (Reducing Alcohol Related Harm) helped EU Member States tackle alcohol-related harm. It improved data collection and shared best practices to inform public health policies. The Joint Action produced tools to support action and public health policy planning to address alcohol as a key determinant of health and contribute to health inequalities.
EuroHealthNet took part by providing expertise in public health policy and by contributing to the development of evidence-based good practices.
VulnerABLE (2015-2017)
VulnerABLE identified best practices to improve the health of isolated and vulnerable populations in Europe, such as homeless people and people with disabilities. The initiative conducted detailed research, developed policy guidance, including a framework for action, and materials, such as a toolkit for capacity-building.
EuroHealthNet was part of the consortium that explored how best to improve the health of people who are living in vulnerable and isolated situations across Europe.
