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CO-CREATE Newsletter November 2022


An empowered message of youth action on obesity
 
Welcome to the ninth issue of the CO-CREATE newsletter!

We have now entered the final year of the CO-CREATE project, and I am delighted to report that much progress has been made with deliverables, publications, events and youth engagement.

The activities and research findings have been shouted from the rooftops at various events, conferences and forums relevant to action on childhood obesity and engaging youth in policy creation.

In this newsletter you can find out more about these events, including a joint conference held in Brussels, which resulted in a joint call to action for European policy and research priorities.

Also in this edition, are updates from CO-CREATE’s set of 2022 completed deliverables and publications. It has been fantastic to see production of detailed, impactful and practical research which can strengthen policy actions to tackle obesity and overweight in youth.

The final year of the CO-CREATE project presents a valuable opportunity to make even more impact on engaging youth in obesity policymaking, create useful advocacy tools to halt the rise in childhood obesity prevalence and consolidate research findings to bolster and sustain tangible action in future. Planning is underway for upcoming CO-CREATE’s activities and continued collaboration, such as a writing workshop, conference symposia, dialogue forums for youth engagement, and two journal supplements showcasing the project’s research.

Knut-Inge Klepp
Project Coordinator
CO-CREATE

 

CO-CREATE youth representatives at European events
 
As part of the CO-CREATE project we are delighted to be able to fund youth representatives to attend events across Europe, providing networking and advocacy opportunities. This has included representation at the EU Joint project meeting in Brussels, the European Congress on Obesity in Maastricht, the final STOP Stakeholder meeting in Ljubljana, the WHO Euro Health and Well-being Forum for Youth in Tirana,  a HealthyLifestyle4all Parliamentary event in Brussels and Stockholm 50+.

CO-CREATE joins international congresses
 
Projects issue a Call to Action following NCD prevention symposium in Brussels

In collaboration with STOP, The Joint Action Best ReMap and JPI PEN, CO-CREATE co-hosted a three-day symposium titled ‘Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe’. The June event facilitated shared learnings and reflections on policy, research and funding priorities for systems change. 14 sessions in total across the symposium addressed subjects including policymaking, the systems approach, fiscal policies and marketing. The event included 3 plenaries, and the launch of STOP-WHO policy briefs.

All four projects (CO-CREATE, STOP, PEN and Joint Action BestReMap) agreed to sign a Joint Call to Action titled: Preventing obesity across Europe: A call to action’, for consolidated action on NCDs.

Read more about the joint call to action on World Obesity’s website here.

 
Read more on the Symposium
Download the call to action


CO-CREATE at International Congress on Obesity 2022

At this year’s ICO event, COCREATE joined sister European project STOP to hold a joint workshop and share key findings and tools at an exhibition stand.



The workshop focused on the multifaceted approaches towards enhanced policymaking on childhood obesity used by COCREATE and STOP, the inclusion and engagement of youth in these processes and useful associated tools that have been developed.

A 20-minute interactive panel discussion examined learnings for other regions, key entry points for actions, and how to integrate knowledge at individual and population level to identify the best approaches to address childhood obesity.
Learn more


European Congress on Obesity 2022

In May, CO-CREATE led a symposium at the ECO 2022 conference on ‘Meaningful youth engagement - building healthier food and physical activity environments for current and future generations’.



The session included case studies and practical examples of engaging youth to promote health & well-being, youth perceptions of the drivers of adolescent obesity in Europe, and a 50-minute interactive dialogue on intergenerational collaboration, featuring two youth representatives and the EAT Forum.

Updates from CO-CREATE teams

NOURISHING and MOVING policy databases collectively contain over 1700 policies!

Great progress has been made on WCRF International’s NOURISHING & MOVING databases. As part of CO-CREATE, we have had a particular focus on Europe, and have collected policies from 27 European countries.

In October we celebrated reaching over 1000 diet and nutrition related policies on the NOURISHING database, which now contains policies from over 150 countries. However, there are currently full datasets of nutrition policies from 24 European countries in the NOURISHING database.

On the MOVING database, we now have over 700 physical activity policy actions with complete and systematic datasets from 27 European countries of physical activity policies.

 

Policy indexes on nutrition and physical activity policies in Europe

WCRF International are currently developing prototypes of two policy indexes for nutrition and physical activity government policy across the 27 European countries. The policy indexes will be launched in Spring 2023 through two webinars, one for NOURISHING and a second for MOVING.


 


Healthy Voices website: Youth driving change

In collaboration with the STOP project, CO-CREATE has contributed to the development of the Healthy Voices website. Healthy Voices provides tools and expertise for young people to become agents for change in the youth health agenda. Young people are the next generation of adults, parents, and policymakers and they must be part of the answer as we aim to move solutions away from single-level interventions towards developing systemic policy.

 A key contribution of the CO-CREATE project has been to the learn section. Here CO-CREATE explores facts and myths to empower young people about weight stigma, negative stereotypes and give tools on how to reinforce positive representation. Also, in the learn section user friendly policy briefs have been designed related to CO-CREATE research- for example ‘a review of a snapshot of diet and physical activity policies from the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom’.
 
New content, such as videos, blogs, infographics, stories of youth engagement and advocacy tools are being developed and added to the website. Find out more on the Healthy Voices website.

 

CO-CREATE's Dialogue Forum tool

New applications and uses of CO-CREATE’s Dialogue Forum tool are being seen as the project advances.

FoodSHIFT2030, an EU H2020 project addressing citizen-driven food systems innovation, plans to test out the CO-CREATE dialogue tool in the project and include it in a broader “Transition Toolkit”. This autumn, the forum tool will be made available to a set of “accelerator labs” located throughout Europe as a means to help cities engender meaningful engagement with citizens.

The Cities Guide utilised the tool in a series of workshops with youth in Oslo on building healthy and sustainable food environments. The dialogue forum allowed youth participants to share how they interact with food in their daily lives and co-developed recommendations for healthy food environments and school meals.

Other usage of the CO-CREATE tool includes country partners from the Joint Action Best ReMaP initiative enquiring about its applicability to National Stakeholder policy dialogues.


 
Access the tools and guidance for free here

CO-CREATE Collaborator Updates
 
STOP stakeholder meeting,
The STOP Project held a three-day conference in Ljubljana in collaboration with WHO Euro, bringing together a range of stakeholders from across Europe. CO-CREATE took part and was able to present the project as part of the sessions. Find out more here.

 

STOP-WHO briefings launched
The STOP project, along with WHO and WHO Europe, has co-produced a series of policy briefs, covering topics such as nutrition labelling, nudges to promoting healthy eating in schools, fiscal policies and protecting youth from harmful impacts of food marketing. Please find the full set of briefs here.

 

World Obesity Day 2023 – Save the Date
Make sure to save the date for World Obesity Day 2023, which takes place on 4 March 2023. World Obesity Federation will soon be releasing themes, materials and messaging to share ahead of this important day of action. Contact the World Obesity Day team to find out more. 

 

WOF Economics Report
A new report, based on a three-year study from RTI International and World Obesity Federation (with support from Novo Nordisk), has provided the first-ever country-specific global estimate of the economic impacts of overweight and obesity.  Read more on the report here.

 

UNICEF Systems Report
In May, UNICEF published a report detailing the organisation’s key achievements for children and young people during 2021. These include providing services to prevent forms of malnutrition, reaching nearly 336 million children on stunting, and 154 million children with life-saving screening for severe wasting. You can find the full report here.

 

WHO Physical activity update and WHO Euro report on Obesity
WHO has launched the first global status report on physical activity, which that charts global progress on country implementation of policy recommendations of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA) 2018-2030. Learn more about it here.

 

JPI HDHL Policy Evaluation Network (PEN) - Upcoming special issue
The JPI HDHL Policy Evaluation Network (PEN) is proud to announce the supplement titled “Creating evidence for public policies to improve dietary and physical activity behaviours in Europe”, to be published in the beginning of December 2022 by the Eur J Public Health.

Further information will soon be made available at this page.

 

New papers and deliverables from CO-CREATE in 2022
See below the most recent papers from the CO-CREATE project, completed by our partner institutions across the 10 work packages. 

 

Promoting Physical Activity Policy: The Development of the MOVING Framework
 

Weight Status and Mental Well-Being Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Body Weight. A Cross-National Survey
 

Nordic adolescents responding to demanding survey scales in boring contexts: Examining straightlining
 

Youth participation in policy-making processes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review of the literature
 

Adolescents' Perspectives on the Drivers of Obesity Using a Group Model Building Approach: A South African Perspective
 

Cross-national variation in the association between family structure and overweight and obesity: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged children (HBSC) study
 
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