The protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and the improvement of breastfeeding rates, with the consequent benefits on maternal and child health, are the final aim of this project. The main general objective is to assess the usefulness of the Blueprint for Action produced by the EC-funded project "Promotion of Breastfeeding in Europe" for national/regional planning by: developing/revising national/regional plans using the Blueprint as a model; implementing activities recommended in the Blueprint and evaluating outcomes; comparing the implementation of breastfeeding activities in countries using or not using the Blueprint for national/regional planning. The final product of the project - a Blueprint revised and improved as needed and made available to all EU and associated countries, together with a user`s guide.
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The project will develop, implement and evaluate an effective national policy and sustainable practices on healthy eating and physical activity in schools in all EU member states. It aims at supporting the development and implementation of comprehensive, sustainable and evidence-based school programmes in the member states to combat and prevent overweight among school-aged children, in the most efficient way by developing and implementing guiding principles and tools to promote healthy eating and physical activity in schools.
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The first objective of the EEN project is to raise political, institutional, and scientific awareness of the relevancy of local, long-term, and multi-stakeholder approaches to healthier lifestyles, in particular childhood obesity prevention.
The second objective is to enrich existing methodologies and produce concrete guidelines transferable to countries willing to deploy an Epode-like programme (http://www.epode.fr/). EEN will focus on Epode approach and its four pillars: political awareness, willingness, and involvement; good practice of scientific evaluation of community-based interventions (CBI) and its dissemination; network expertise and social marketing approach; legal and ethical framework of public-private partnerships.

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LIFECYCLE’s general objective is to change the increasing sedentary lifestyles by adding physical activity to the daily routines of people. LIFECYLCE aims to integrate cycling as the main mean of transportation as a daily physical activity routine.
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