The BISTAIRS (Brief InterventionS in the Treatment of Alcohol use disorders In Relevant Settings) project partnership aims to intensify the implementation of brief interventions (BI) in a range of relevant settings by identifying, systematising and extending good practice of BI across the EU.
The project partnership is consisting of 7 partners from 6 EU Member states, pursuing the common goal to increase the impact of evidence-based brief interventions on alcohol related disorders in Europe. Most experience in BI implementation has been gathered in primary health care (PHC) settings in high income countries, the project aims to foster BI implementation in further settings (workplace health services, emergency care and social services) and countries, to contribute to a widespread BI implementation in the EU.


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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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To empower European youth by giving them access to high quality sex education and a downloadable mobile guide with the latest information on sexuality and STIs at their fingertips, thus enabling them to make qualified and informed choices in their everyday lives about sexuality. The ambition is to make youth able to better understand their own as well as others` sexuality, and be more accepting of themselves and tolerant of others, in addition to enabling them to avoid situations that may escalate to sexual bullying or abuse or simply unprotected sex. Hopefully this will make young people more comfortable with themselves and around others, and able to avoid STIs and unplanned pregnancies.
Ultimately, the goals are to achieve lower prevalence of STIs and unplanned pregnancies, as well as to demonstrate to the European health professional sector the efficiency of the open and candid approach to sexual health education.
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Objectives: the three main objectives of the conference, along with the pillars of the 2nd Health Programme are the following:

1. Explore the conditions and capitalise on existing experiences (policy, legal, technological, financial and organisational) necessary for high-quality and safe healthcare for an ageing population. The conference will present and discuss innovative models enabling healthy and active ageing through improved access to care and social support structures. The purpose of the conference is to connect scientific know how with models of practical implementation introducing innovative holistic approaches bringing together users, knowledge institutes, the private sector and public authorities in a structured way. Healthcare policies in Ageing rely on innovative healthcare models, which are both cost-efficient and user adapted. Eindhoven as a likely EIP AHA reference site (one of five selected), has ample experience with such implementation models.

2. Discuss approaches to increase the participation of an ageing population in socio-economic activities, comprising supporting policy framework with public-private partnership constellations. Holistic models will be discussed to support preventive measures which increase the healthy life years will be presented and discussed. One of the problems faced at the moment is user acceptance and user friendliness of policies and applications and products. Through Co Creation models and concepts a more demand driven approach can be organised bringing together all relevant stakeholders from the very beginning of processes through so called testing activities in Living Labs

3. Identify and disseminate best practices, information and knowledge on health issues including models supporting innovative and safe health care for elderly and social inclusion initiatives. Also to strengthen various clusters and networks, also linking in with the dissemination activities under various EU cooperation projects. One of the reference projects will be the NWE Health Cluster on Ageing but also the RECAP project which is a very good example of a regional integrated Care Portal being set up.

In the conference the following themes will be highlighted:
o Implementation / organization perspective: highlighting best practice and innovative approaches and models in the organization, planning, management and evaluation, e.g. the shared services concept where different players in care, cure and wellbeing institutions as well as municipalities work together
o Policy, regulatory and governance perspective: framework and models supporting healthy and active ageing, including public-private-partnership models and healthcare policies
o Safety perspective: Health care data systems (e.g. patient files)
o Financial perspective: financing services, including the recourse to volunteering schemes with non-paid care services from family members or other volunteers and increasing the economic and volunteering activities of an ageing population
o Patients’ perspective: adapting healthcare to patients’ needs, e.g. programmes, regimes and approaches to stimulate physical exercises, a healthy diet, safe home environment, social interaction to improve the physical and mental well-being

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