The Elisad gateway project aims to further develop and implement the methodological framework and web-based technologies in order to improve cross-European data transfer in the field of alcohol, drugs and addictions. The overall project objective is to successively develop and update a quality-revised web portal to drug- and addiction-related websites which is able to provide both: a subject-oriented retrieval system, and information about the content and publisher of each included site within an online catalogue.
After completion of the 2002-2003 work programe, the online catalogue available at www.elisad.uni-bremen.de offers searching and thematic browsing in 12 subjects. It includes recorded information, published and catalogued by 88% from Western EU countries, indicating the problems to access information especially from Central and Eastern Europe only weakly represented within 12% of the registered web resources on AOD.

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The project aims at contributing to the reduction of smoking-related morbidity and mortality by supporting tobacco product regulation. It will develop an up-to-date and prioritised list of hazardous smoke components, together with the criteria on which the list is based. This list will be a revision of the so-called Hoffmann list, which is now outdated and has a biased focus on carcinogens. In this project, more attention will be paid to cardiovascular and respiratory effects. A European expert panel of toxicologists and pharmacologists active in tobacco product control will be established for the task.
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The primary objective of the project is to develop effective methods of engaging local communities and "peer groups" to bring about lifestyle changes that generate positive health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Focusing on tobacco control priorities, this project aims to develop the tools to reduce:
- high smoking prevalence rates amongst young people, and
- exposure of children and young people to second-hand smoke.
The project targets children and young people from socially excluded and disadvantaged communities that have poor health indicators.


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