NIGZ as a WHO collaborating centre for school health promotion is responsible for the management of the Schools for Health in Europe network – SHE network. The SHE network focuses on making school health promotion a more integral part of policy development in the health sector and the education sector in the EU member states. SHE encourages each member state to develop and implement a national policy on school health promotion.
SHE uses a positive concept of health and well-being and acknowledges the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The SHE core values are equity, sustainability, inclusion, empowerment and democracy. SHE recognizes the whole school approach to health and active participation of all members of the school community. Health promoting schools support schools in achieving their educational and social goals. Healthy students learn better, healthy teachers work better. They are active agents in the community for strengthening social capital and health literacy.
The SHE network has a strong foundation in its precursor - the European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS)-, founded in 1992 by WHO Euro, the Council of Europe and the European Union, with its experience of developing and sustaining health promoting schools. It has demonstrated progress on an international level with emphasizing the role of schools in improving the health of children and young people, both in EU policy papers and statements (such as the European Pact for Mental Health and Wellbeing, the EU white paper on nutrition, overweight and obesity). On a national level the SHE network has demonstrated progress in establishing and implementing health promoting schools as part of the core work of schools in a number of member countries and has made progress in increasing the cooperation between the health sector and the education sector.


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EPHA’s mission is to improve the health of all people living in Europe and to increase their participation in policy-making that affects their health.

Our vision is
- An equitable society where all individuals enjoy good health regardless of socio-economic status.
- Accountable and accessible EU institutions, transparent policy-making with real opportunities for input.
- Public health prioritized and mainstreamed across all policies, drawing on proven public health models and evidence-based population health interventions.
EPHA has a unique role as:
• A resource: Targeted and tailored information that empowers members and the wider public; a pool of collective expertise well-positioned to advise and evaluate.
• An advocate: An active, articulate champion of its core values that seeks constructive dialogue with institutions and policy makers; acts as a channel of communication to enhance the voices of the public health sector.
• A platform: A space for action, reflection and monitoring; a rallying point for public health groups in Europe; a network that stimulates genuine debate.

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EHMA`s aim is to improve the quality and build the capacity of health management across the European region. As EHMA`s statutes state: we seek to "improve health management and health policies through the development and exchange of both ideas and practices among academics, researchers, managers, clinicians, policy makers and consumers throughout Europe."

EHMA structures its vision under three areas: Quality and Equity in health and healthcare; Innovation in health management; and Sustainable Health Systems; underpinned in all three areas by Leadership.

> Quality and Equity: We want to see high quality healthcare and reduced health inequalities, led by outstanding managers, supported by appropriate policy frameworks and underpinned by the best available research.

> Innovation: We want to see innovative health management and research that thinks radically about service provision and public health for the good of all citizens.

> Sustainable health systems: We want to see health systems equipped to respond to current and future challenges in a way that safeguards health for all.


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The TobTaxy capacity building project will train the public health/tobacco control (TC) community on tax and illicit trade issues so that they can effectively support on-going European and international policy initiatives which are in line with the overall EU approach on tobacco control and Articles 6 and 15 (taxation and smuggling respectively) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
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Health Action International (HAI) Europe is a non-profit, independent, European network of consumer groups, public interest NGOs, healthcare providers, academics and individuals.HAI Europe’s mission and goals follow the overarching global work programme set every 5 years.HAI Europe devises plans and strategies for medicines’ policy issues in Europe and acts as a regional centre.

HAI Europe’s mission is:
-to increase access to essential medicines = medicines for priority health needs are available, accessible and affordable for all;
-to improve the rational use of medicines = citizens receive medication appropriate to their clinical needs, in tailored doses, for an adequate period of time,at the lowest cost to them and their community.
HAI works to achieve these goals through research excellence and evidence-based advocacy.
Vision: Poverty and social injustice represent the greatest barriers to sustainable health and development. HAI works for just and equitable societies where people can participate in decisions affecting their health and well being, including the allocation of resources.
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