SO Europe Eurasia Foundation is a not for profit organization that provides year-round public health services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities through grass roots sports training and competition, multi-disciplinary health screening and intervention programs, promoting public health and early childhood development in all 28 EUan Union Member States, serving over 450,000 participating athletes. SO Europe Eurasia Foundation (SOEEF)supports public health activities operating from offices in Dublin, Brussels and Warsaw, and supports the presence of national Special Olympics offices in all 28 Member States, SO cooperate and assist local services, agencies and organisations dedicated to the promotion of physical fitness and mental well being of people with intellectual disabilities and develops activities and programmes across EU and across borders that enables Special Olympics athletes to take a fuller and more active role in their community and society in general.
SOEE plays an active role in supporting the development of 28 National Special Olympics Programmes in EU- assisting them to become better known, better funded and more successful in both expanding and improving physical and mental health through sports opportunities and other initiatives which include
The Healthy Athletes program - multidisciplinary public health screening and intervention program for all participating Special Olympics athletes. Healthy Athletes is designed to improve the athlete`s ability to train and compete, as well as offer positive health outcomes for their daily lives. It has become one of the world`s leaders in offering specialized health training courses on the health status of persons with intellectual disabilities, as well as how to treat this often marginalized population. Healthy Athletes consists of seven disciplinary screening programs, including: vision care, oral health, hearing care, physical therapy, standard sports physicals, podiatric medicine, and nutrition counseling. Special Olympics has the potential to provide a number of health interventions to provide sustained positive impact.
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Mission
EFA is aiming to be a powerful European network of allergy, asthma and COPD patients’ organisations that:
1. Advocates at the EU level for the needs of patients of these disease areas,
2. Values all members equally,
3. Implements best practices
4. Creates patient-driven projects
5. Cooperates with healthcare professionals, scientists and other stakeholders and NGOs in order to achieve its goals, implement values and have holistic approaches to solving health & care problems which directly affect patients with allergy, asthma and COPD.
Vision
EFA is dedicated to making Europe a place where people with allergies, asthma and COPD
- have the right to the best quality of care and safe environment,
- live uncompromised lives and
- are actively involved in all decisions influencing their health.
The organisation’s activities either integrate all elements of EFA’s vision or specifically focus upon one element individually so as to strengthen the overall position of allergy, asthma and COPD patients in Europe as EFA seeks long-term and meaningful solutions to the everyday issues of the patients it represents.
The core values of the EFA organisation are (1) patient perspective; (2) involvement; (3) sharing knowledge and experience; (4) partnership and cooperation; and (5) visibility and presence. The values are guiding principles for the organisation in all it`s activities. All of EFA’s activities and planning purposefully integrate these central values to demonstrate consistency in EFA’s work plans. As values shared by all its members, they foster trust between the national organisations and EFA, which designates the work performed in Brussels as overlapping with their own interests. These values also demonstrate EFA’s legitimacy to other organisations and actors working at the European level, which signals EFA’s mission and vision are exclusively driven by its membership and the patients whom they represent.
The mission and vision are visibly communicated at EFA website, and EFA publications.

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The European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare) is an alliance of non-governmental and public health organisations with around 55 member organisations across 24 European countries advocating the prevention and reduction of alcohol related harm. Member organisations are involved in advocacy and research, as well as in the provision of information and training on alcohol issues and the service for people whose lives are affected by alcohol problems.
The mission of Eurocare is to promote policies to prevent and reduce alcohol related harm. The message, in regard to alcohol consumption is "less is better".
Eurocare’s vision is a Europe where alcohol related harm is no longer one of the leading risk factors for ill-health and pre-mature death. A Europe where innocents no longer suffer from the drinking of others and where the European Union (EU) and its Member States(MS)recognise harm done by alcohol and apply effective and comprehensive policies to tackle it. Eurocare strives to be recognised as the leading NGO in alcohol related dialogue and policy development.
Eurocare core values:
Public health is a crucial fundamental right as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Public health is more than basic medical care and should be the core business of every government who have the responsibility to improve the wellbeing of its citizens (as mentioned in art 168 TFEU).
Good health is a fundamental resource for social and economic development, meaning that people live longer and enjoy more healthy years of life.
Equality in health is vital for the cohesion of society. Eurocare recognises the remarkable improvements in public health in recent decades, but notes that there are still large differences between population groups, regions and countries.
The participation of civil society has been increasingly significant in shaping and delivering health outcomes at all levels.
Eurocare believes that the public good must take precedence over commercial interests.
Recommended alcohol policies must be based on best available evidence, monitored and evaluated.
Subsidiarity and diversity must be respected as the national situations in Europe are very different.
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The ultimate (indirect) objective of the project is to contribute to sustaining health of older people in their longer and more active life span. To rich the objective, it is necessary to develop knowledge of factors influencing healthy aging. Such knowledge is more and more available but it is not equally common in all groups of the elderly and in all European countries. At the same time, knowledge of medically reasonable and cost-effective methods of health promotion among older people in various stages of aging is rather modest. An important and direct objective of the project is to contribute to the proven knowledge of health promotion among older people. To implement research results among health promoters, materials and trainings will be provided. This is the second important direct objective of the project. Milestones achieved by this project will strenghten European and national health programs of healthy aging.
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By the end of 2016, the OPEN project aims to strengthen the methodology of Community Based Programmes (CBPs), Initiatives (CBIs) or Public Organizations, willing to implement sustainable strategies and actions to prevent obesity at local and national level.
The project will scale-up and increase capacity of the Coordination Teams (CTs) in terms of scope of action, design, implementation and evaluation methods.
The objective is also to support the CTs in widening their target groups scope, including adolescents living in deprived areas.

Increasing the CTs capacity and skills, the project will facilitate and accelerate behavior and environmental change to reduce overweight and obesity-related diseases among European children and adolescents.

To date, 11 CTs in 16 countries (PHC-Belgium, UGENT-Cyprus, UGENT-Estonia, CCFL-France, UGENT-Germany, NOSTUS-Greece, UGENT-Hungary, UGENT-Italy, MHEC-Malta, CGG-Netherlands, PFPZ ZP-Poland, CEIDESS-Portugal, PRAIS-Romania, OZ PZND-Slovakia, ALE-Spain, UGENT-Sweden) are part of the consortium.

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