The overall aim of SHE is to improve the health of children and young people in Europe, including reducing health inequalities, through a setting focus on schools. SHE supports its members to further develop and sustain school health promotion in each EU Member State by providing a European platform for school health promotion. SHE contributes to national and regional development and implementation of school health promotion, as well as the development of new knowledge and evidence.
For the period 2018-2021 three specific objectives are formulated based on the mission and purpose of SHE: 1) By the end of 2021 the functioning of national and regional health promoting school networks and the implementation of health promoting schools has been supported by sharing good practices, expertise and skills and reinforcing the position of SHE national and regional coordinators; 2) By the end of 2021 the professional competence development of the SHE members and other stakeholders has been supported by the delivery of the SHE support programme; 3) By the end of 2021 the visibility and access to evidence based information on school health promotion has increased by the delivery of SHE publications and presentations.
Methods to achieve these objectives are: ameetings with SHE members and other stakeholders; capacity building workshops; SHE website; SHE helpdesk; share information through newsletters and social media and encourage regional and cross-border cooperation. Also, support school twinning; develop and implement teacher training material on school health inequality, renew the SHE online school manual; organising the SHE academy, support publications and do consultancy visits. Furthermore, develop and publish SHE promoting material; factsheets; online glossary; representing SHE at international conferences; developing European standards and indicators for health promoting schools and monitor the implementation on school health promotion in Europe.


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In 2019 EHN will focus on creating awareness of the human and economic burden of CVD among newly-elected MEPs and new EU Commissioners and their cabinets (new EU mandate). We will do so by intensifying interaction and communications with the new EU mandate and organising a meeting at the end of the year, to present our proposal for a plan for action on CVD in Europe.

We do not expect any major new policy developments in 2019, due to the upcoming elections to the European Parliament and the change of EU Commissioners, so we will grasp the opportunity to review our papers on e-cigarettes, CVD risk assessment programmes and physical activity. We will update them with the most recent evidence and disseminate them widely to selected target audiences. We will continue to work on policies that are going through the legislative process, debated in European Fora, or likely to be taken up at EU member state level. Policy areas include agriculture; trade; food information (front-of-pack labelling) and composition (trans fatty acids); and marketing of HFSS food to children.

A key role, as a member organisation, is to support our members by providing information, enhancing their capacities, and facilitating knowledge-exchange. Our role is also to enable them, and their constituencies, to participate in and influence debates on health policy, policies that impact on cardiovascular health, and health regulations. To that end we will organise five meetings for our members and commission research, including on e-/mHealth and how it benefits cardiovascular patients. 2019 will also see the EHN Research Platform swing into action.

In conclusion, we believe that our 2019 operational objectives and the activities we have selected to achieve them, will contribute to achieve the general and specific objectives of our FPA. We believe that putting cardiovascular health on the agenda of new MEPs/Commissioners will benefit EU citizens as well as the EU economy.

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The overarching goal of the SFP Coalition multiannual work programme between 2018 and 2021 is to prevent cancer and chronic diseases through smoking prevention at EU and national level with a special focus on young people and health in all policies. The work plan for 2019 will support this goal by continuing advocacy campaigns on tobacco control research and tobacco taxation; by building on the results of the global meetings on the FCTC and Illicit Trade Protocol and the UN NCD process, by continuing to engage its Coalition members at EU level, and by supporting national campaigns and capacity building for effective civil dialogue and tobacco control advocacy. In 2019 SFP will also focus on awareness raising on the FCTC, the Illicit Trade Protocol, SDG 3 and targets 3.4 and 3.A in the context of the European elections.
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