Final Report CHAFEA Operating Grant Nr: 2013 32 02 Acronym: CBO_FY2014 Title: CBO_FY2014 Authors: Erin Safarjan, Goof Buijs, Silvia de Ruiter Date: 3 March 2015 mmmll
Table of Contents Table of Contents... 2 Declaration by the operating grant coordinator... 3 Specification of the action... 4 Final Publishable Executive Summary... 5 Initial scope of the operating grant... 8 Mission and vision of the operating grant... 8 Summary of the organisation's work programme for 2014... 9 Objective 1: provide support to the members of the SHE network... 9 Objective 2: capacity building on school health promotion...10 Objective 3: advocacy on school health promotion...10 Objective 4: supporting research on school health promotion...10 Timetable...11 Synergies of the organisation's activities with the priorities of the WP 2013 including a description of the EU added value of these activities...11 Dissemination strategy (external dissemination)...12 Evaluation strategy...13 Coordination with other organisations in the field...14 Deliverables of the operating grant...16 Deliverable 01:...16 Deliverable 02:...16 Deliverable 03:...16 Deliverable 04:...17 Deliverable 05:...17 Deliverable 06:...17 Deliverable 07:...18 Deliverable 08:...18 Deliverable 09:...18 Deliverable 10:...19 Operating Grant implementation...20 Organization and planning...20 Objective 1: provide support to the members of the SHE network...20 Objective 2: capacity building on school health promotion...20 Objective 3: advocacy on school health promotion...21 Objective 4: supporting research on school health promotion...21 List of seminars, conferences and other events attended...22 Changes to original plan:...22 External evaluation...22 Overall feedback on activities by SHE members...23 Dissemination...24 Participation in EU actions...24 Annexes...25 Month Year I 2
Declaration by the operating grant coordinator I, as coordinator of this operating grant and in line with the obligations stated in the Grant Agreement declare that: The report represents an accurate description of the work carried out under this operating grant for this reporting period; To my best knowledge, the financial statements that are being submitted as part of this report are in line with the actual work carried out and are consistent with the report on the resources used for the project and, if applicable, with the certificate of the financial statement. Name of the coordinator: Goof Buijs... Signature:... Date: 3 March 2015... Month Year I 3
Specification of the action Operating grant title: CBO_FY2014 Acronym: CBO_FY2014 Starting date of the grant agreement: Duration of the grant agreement (in months): 1 January 2014 12 months EC co-funding: Max. 194.992,00 Priority area: 2. Promote health Sub-action: Action: Main partner information and contact person: CBO BV, Churchilllaan 11, 3527 GV Utrecht, the Netherlands Goof Buijs, g.buijs@cbo.nl Keywords (using MESH terms): 1. School health 2. Health promotion 3. Child 4. Capacity building 5. Research Month Year I 4
Final Publishable Executive Summary The Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) network focuses on making school health promotion an integral part of policy development in the health and education sector in EU member states. The network encourages each member country to develop and implement a national policy on school health promotion, building on the experiences within the country, within Europe and globally. The overall aim of the SHE network is to improve the health of children and young people in Europe, including reducing health inequalities, through a specific focus on schools as a setting for health promotion. The general objectives of the SHE network are: 1. Share good practices, expertise and skills on school health promotion; 2. Support the development, implementation and research (evaluation/ evidence) of school health promotion; 3. Maintain and further expand the SHE network to a leading European network and community for school health promotion; 4. Provide on-going technical support in member states, with an emphasis on the member countries in Eastern Europe and the Central Asian countries (EECA countries); and 5. Create and maintain active collaboration with the education sector and other relevant sectors (youth care, social care, environment and sustainable development) on an international level. The specific objectives for the work programme for 2014 were: 1. Provide support to the members of the SHE network; 2. Capacity building on school health promotion; 3. Advocacy on school health promotion; and 4. Supporting research on school health promotion. In 2014 the following activities were carried out: The SHE assembly meeting for SHE national coordinators and members of the SHE research group took place on 8-10 October 2014, in Tallinn, Estonia. A workshop on the SHE online school manual and on social media for the SHE national coordinators were included in the programme as training activities. The report of the assembly is available on the SHE network website. The SHE website www.schools-for-health.eu was maintained, regularly updated and restructured in order to increase access and attract more visitors. The SHE helpdesk (she@cbo.nl) was consulted 162 times. Information about school health promotion was shared through social media, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Four regular electronic newsletters were issued. After modifying the SHE terms of reference in 2013 in order to allow regional and subnational health promoting school networks to join the network, five regional networks joined in 2014. The regional networks are Lombardy (Italy), Piedmont (Italy), Cantabria (Spain), Gelderland Zuid (Netherlands) and Rotterdam (Netherlands). The SHE summer school was held from 23-27 June 2014 in Limerick, Ireland with 18 participants. It was hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland. The SHE summer school leaflet was developed and disseminated among the Month Year I 5
members of the SHE network and the university s network. Training material has been made available through the SHE website. Four consultancy visits were carried out in 2014: o 20-21 February 2014, Riga, Latvia (health promoting school workshop) o 31 October 2014, Nestlé, Switzerland (SHE presentation Nestle Healthy Kids Programme) o o 2-4 December 2014, Moscow, Russian Federation (EECA workshop) 6-7 October 2014, Iceland, Meeting WP7, EU Joint Action Mental Health (Peter Paulus) The 2014 SHE leaflet has been developed on the work plan SHE 2014 with reference to the 2013 EU PHP. The SHE online school manual on how to become a health promoting school is available online. In 2014, the online, translated version was pilot tested in three EU countries: Croatia, Czech Republic and Estonia for usability. In 2014 the online manual was translated into five additional languages, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish and available on the SHE website. The innovative practice book Equity, education and health: Learning from practice was edited and published in 2014. It includes innovative practice stories on school health promotion collected at the 4 th European conference on Health Promoting Schools on 7-9 October 2013 in Odense, Denmark. It is available in print and can also be downloaded for free as PDF on the SHE network website. In 2014 the new SHE factsheet 3 Effective networks and partnerships for health promotion in schools was developed. It is available in print and as PDF on the SHE network website and provides a summary of what networks and partnerships in school health promotion are and why they are important. The promotional video Introduction to health promoting schools in Europe and accompanying online manual for schools to develop their own promo-clip were produced and published in 2014. The promotional video is available with English, French and Italian subtitles on the SHE network website and YouTube. The manual is available on the SHE network website as PDF. In 2014 the SHE research group undertook the following activities: o Facilitation of EERA Network 8 Sessions during ECER, September 2014; o Research group meeting, 26-27 November 2014; o o o Support to the realisation of the Springer Publication: Schools for health and sustainability: Theory, research and practice, published in 2014; Support the 2014 SHE summer school in Limerick; Support the special edition of the peer reviewed journal Health Education on sex education in schools. The activities in the SHE network related to one of the overall goals of the 2nd EU public programme (2008-2013) namely: promoting health, including the reduction of health inequalities. In the 2013 work plan for the EU public health programme the SHE network addresses health determinants to promote physical and mental health and taking action on key factors such as nutrition and physical activity, and on addiction-related determinants such as tobacco and alcohol (3.2.3). Also the SHE network contributes directly to reaching the priorities of the European Union as set in Europe 2020 a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM (2010)) by professional networking and development. The WHO European Food and Nutrition Action Plan 2015-2020 (September 2014) makes specific reference to the SHE network as one of the recommended partners for implementation of the action plan. Month Year I 6
A qualitative evaluation of the execution of the tasks mentioned in Annex 1 of the grant agreement was done by UNIRES in France. Overall, SHE members are satisfied with the network s activities in 2014 and express how they can benefit from being a member. Improvements on overall SHE activities include to put more emphasis on the direct support to schools in the SHE member countries. Collaboration between SHE network members could also be further developed, with an improvement of how research fits in the broader SHE network. Specific comments by the SHE research group members emphasized the need for collaborative work within the group. Joint projects could be beneficial for the Research group but also for health promoting school research in general. All events in the workplan for 2014 did actually take place. Participants provided very positive feedback in regards these events. Concerning use of internet (website, newsletters, helpdesk, social media) activities were carried out as planned. Since the third factsheet was only disseminated in December, it is difficult to comment on its effect on the strengthening of the network, but the School Manual and the Good Practice book are clearly used as disseminating tools by SHE members. In terms of visibility of the SHE network, the website is central (14.494 website visits, while the target was set at 12.000, including 8902 new visitors). Social media is also one of the essential tools uses by the SHE secretariat to improve visibility of the SHE network. Concerning research, some members of the research group point out the lack of visibility of research within the SHE network. The data collected show that SHE deliverables are indeed used by professionals, tools and activities provided by the network do help to members in their practice thus participating to professional development. Concerning the development of national networks, this seems to depend on the specific national context. The SHE network contributes to the objectives of the EU Public Health Programme, especially objective 2 (promoting health and reducing health inequalities) and objective 3 (generating and disseminating health information and knowledge). Month Year I 7
Initial scope of the operating grant Mission and vision of the operating grant The core business of CBO BV is to develop, implement and review health promotion and quality in health care. CBO is active in (action) research, innovation and development of health promotion and health care. CBO is a respected partner in many European (research) projects, funded by DG Sante, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and by the FP7 programme. CBO is inspired by the Ottawa Chart for Health Promotion, in which health promotion is described as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. CBO holds the management of the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) network. In 2014 CBO became a WHO Collaborating Centre for School Health Promotion. The SHE network focuses on making school health promotion an integral part of policy development in the health and education sector in EU member states. The network encourages each member country to develop and implement a national policy on school health promotion, building on the experiences within the country, within Europe and globally. A health promoting school is a school that implements a structured and systematic plan for the health, well-being and the development of social capital of all pupils and of teaching and non-teaching staff. The whole school environment is viewed as an important area for promotion of health and for learning about health. The members of the SHE network use a positive concept of health and well-being and acknowledge the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They recognize 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 all EU member states for strengthening social capital and health literacy. General objectives of the organisation and its main activities The overall aim of the SHE network is to improve the health of children and young people in Europe, including reducing health inequalities, through a specific setting focus on schools. The SHE network supports its members to further develop and sustain school health promotion in each country by providing the European platform. The work plan for the network builds on the SHE strategic plan 2013-2016. The 2010 needs assessment among the national coordinators demonstrates a need for ongoing exchange of experiences, of increasing the SHE profile at (inter)national level, increasing their performance management and strengthening partnership skills. The network contributes to national development and implementation of school health promotion. Members are prepared to play an active role, by providing case studies, offer training and research skills. The SHE strategic plan 2013-2016 contains five general objectives, for each of which a set of concrete indicators are formulated: 1. Share good practices, expertise and skills on school health promotion; 2. Support the development, implementation and research (evaluation/ evidence) of school health promotion; 3. Maintain and further expand the SHE network to a leading European network and community for school health promotion; Month Year I 8
4. Provide ongoing technical support in member states, with an emphasis on the member countries in Eastern Europe and the Central Asian Republics (EECA countries); and 5. Create and maintain active collaboration with the education sector and other relevant sectors (youth care, social care, environment and sustainable development) on an international level. The main activities of the SHE network: Capacity building Capacity building, empowerment and training of the members of the network are important activities of the network. It supports and strengthens the position of the members of the network and therefore the implementation of school health promotion in the member states. During the assembly meeting workshops are organised by and for members of the network, and collegial consultation is promoted. Country visits are made by the network coordinator to support the national coordinators, including meetings with the Ministry of Health and Education or national events. Each year a capacity building training is organised for the EECA countries. Since 2010 the yearly SHE summer school on school health promotion is organised for professionals working in the area of school health promotion. The network develops tools that can support national coordinators in implementing school health promotion. Share relevant information The network helps disclosing and sharing relevant information on school health promotion. This is done through the SHE website, the quarterly electronic newsletter, the helpdesk, direct emails, social media and by contributing to relevant European conferences and sharing good practice. Encourage research The network encourages research on school health promotion and the dissemination of results, through the SHE research group. It has a focus on scientific research and innovative practices. The group contributes to the yearly European Conference on Education and Research (ECER) conference and has scientific contributions to other (inter-)national conferences which are also available for the national coordinators for their (advocacy) work. Advocate for school health promotion The network advocates for school health promotion and focuses on making school health promotion an integral part of health and education policies. The network is represented at European and national conferences and has established links with other networks and initiatives like HBSC, EuroChild and the Learning for Wellbeing Consortium. Provide a link to national expertise The network provides a link to national expertise by bringing members of the network and other interested parties in contact with each other through the website, meetings or email. From 2013 also regional networks are linked to the SHE network. Summary of the organisation's work programme for 2014 Objective 1: provide support to the members of the SHE network The secretariat actively supports the network members. Activities are: organising the 2014 assembly meeting, maintaining the website and helpdesk, sharing information about school health promotion through social media and 4 electronic newsletters. To Month Year I 9
strengthen national networks on school health promotion the secretariat will encourage the members to collaborate with regional and cross-border networks and offer the possibility to join the network. Primary target group are SHE network members. Secondary target groups are regional coordinators. Expected outcomes are stronger national networks on school health promotion, 25 participants of the assembly, 12.000 site visits, 350 followers on Twitter, 200 likes on Facebook, 150 members on LinkedIn, 4 electronic newsletters and an extension with 10 regional networks. Objective 2: capacity building on school health promotion The secretariat will deliver a support programme for professional development and capacity building on school health promotion. Activities are: a 2-day workshop on supporting the introduction of the 2013 online school manual in the member states and a 1-day workshop on using social media for SHE network members. The 2014 SHE summer school will be organised with a focus on theory, research and practice of school health promotion. Target group are professionals with an interest in school health promotion (researchers, PHD students and practitioners). The summer school will be delivered by the Danish School of Education. The 25 participants will receive a certificate as proof of their participation. Training material will be made available as e- learning modules on the SHE website. A third activity will be to encourage collegial consultation through three consultancy/advocacy visits (selection of countries will be based on the needs of the SHE national coordinators, identified at the start of the project year). Expected outcomes are increased professional development of the national coordinators and participants of the summer school, 30 participants of the training activities, 25 participants of the summer school and 3 consultancy/advocacy visits. Objective 3: advocacy on school health promotion Advocating for school health promotion is a key activity of the network which supports the work of its members. Activities are: making a leaflet on the work plan SHE 2014 with reference to the 2013 EU PHP; piloting and translation of the 2013 SHE online manual for schools on how to become a health promoting school into 2 EU languages; editing and publishing the new publication with innovative practice stories on school health promotion collected at the SHE 2013 European conference; developing a promotional video (5 min, mix of animation, cartoon and film) on health promoting schools, including an online instruction for student involvement; development of 1 factsheet on sustainable networking for health promoting schools; plan for dissemination. Primary target group are members of the network. Secondary target group are researchers, policy makers, practitioners and schools with an interest in school health promotion. Expected outcomes: increased visibility and access to user-friendly tools on school health promotion, innovative practice book, promotional video on SHE website, leaflet on work plan SHE 2014, translation of online manual in 2 EU languages. Objective 4: supporting research on school health promotion The research group helps disseminating research results on school health promotion. The SHE national coordinators use this information for expertise, training and advocacy in their network. Activities are: 1 meeting for the members of the research group, including a writing workshop focused on improving the quality of abstracts and publications focusing on school based health promotion. Target group are members of Month Year I 10
the research group. Expected outcomes: increased writing skills and high quality abstracts for the 2014 ECER conference. Timetable Activities 2014 SHE assembly meeting Maintaining SHE website and helpdesk Electronic newsletter Extending the network with regional networks Training activities 2014 SHE Summer school Months M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Consultancy/ advocacy visits x x x x x x Translation online school manual Development innovative practice book Development of 1 factsheet Development promotional video SHE research group meeting incl. writing workshop x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Synergies of the organisation's activities with the priorities of the WP 2013 including a description of the EU added value of these activities The overall aim of the SHE network is to improve the health of children and young people in Europe, including reducing health inequalities, through a specific focus on schools as a setting for health promotion. The health promoting school approach gives the best conditions for the development of sustainable investments and initiatives with long term effect on promoting health and reducing health inequalities among children and young people in all EU member states. The activities in the SHE network relate to one of the overall goals of the 2nd EU public programme (2008-2013) namely: promoting health, including the reduction of health inequalities. In the 2014 work plan for the EU public health programme the Month Year I 11
SHE network addresses health determinants to promote physical and mental health and taking action on key factors such as nutrition and physical activity, and on addiction-related determinants such as tobacco and alcohol (4.2.3). The SHE network contributes to Communicating nutrition and physical activity (4.2.3.2) concerning the agricultural school fruit scheme from the DG Agriculture and Rural Development. Also the SHE network contributes directly to reaching the priorities of the European Union as set in Europe 2020 a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM (2010)) by professional networking and development. The SHE network is engaged in the further development of the European Youth Health Initiative and is collaborating with other DG s, including DG Education and Culture, for school improvement through the health promoting school approach. Priority areas in this area are early childhood care and education, and early school leaving. The contribution of the health promoting school approach to these EU policy areas will be further developed. Also, in collaboration with the Council of Europe, the SHE network supports childs rights and prevention of child violence. CBO supports the initiative Learning for Well-being by the Learning for Well-being Consortium of Foundations in Europe. The health promoting school approach supports the European strategy "Together for all" and the strategy for Europe on nutrition, overweight and obesity related health issues, which focuses on empowered and better informed citizens, the importance of preventing health problems from an early age, involvement of different stakeholders from local communities and a recognition that health inequalities do exist, and that especially people from lower socioeconomic groups suffer from ill health. With its emphasis on participation of all members of the school community, the health promoting school approach is consistent with the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child as well as more recent EU policies concerning young people, including the EU strategy on Solidarity in Health: Reducing Health Inequalities in the EU (2009, DG SANCO and DG EMPL). Finally, CBO is supporting the WHO Euro Health 2020 strategy development and implementation with a specific focus on children and young people in the school setting. Dissemination strategy (external dissemination) A dissemination plan will be included in the work plan SHE 2014 describing the key massage, the target group, purpose, method and timing. In all SHE publications for 2014 a reference will be made to the EU co-funding and to the 2nd EU Public Health Programme. The following dissemination activities will be included in the detailed dissemination plan: After finalising the work plan SHE 2014 a leaflet will be developed describing the work for SHE 2014 and the contribution to the 2013 EU Public Health work plan, available in an electronic version and in hard copy. Deliverables will be made available on the SHE website for dissemination among SHE stakeholders in the member states. In addition hard copies of deliverables will be sent to all members of the SHE network. The SHE national coordinators and SHE research group will be encouraged to use and disseminate deliverables to relevant stakeholders in their country. These are national policy makers, programme developers, regional professionals who support schools, research scientists and other professionals in the area of school health promotion, teacher trainers, school directors and Month Year I 12
teachers, school counselling services and other relevant organisations in the education sector. The SHE national coordinators are encouraged to provide translated versions of deliverables into their own language to further facilitate dissemination and implementation. For the translation of the online school manual funding is included in the budget for translation from English into 6 European languages. In 2014 four electronic SHE newsletters will be published through which all SHE stakeholders will be informed about recent developments in the area of school health promotion. The SHE website will be regularly updated and provides access to information on school health promotion, publications and reports of the SHE network and links to national school health promotion websites. In Autumn 2014 the yearly SHE assembly meeting will be organised. During this meeting the SHE members will be informed about the activities in the network and there will be a focus on collegial consultation and capacity building of SHE national coordinators. Draft versions of the SHE factsheet will be presented and discussed. The 2014 SHE summer school will be promoted via the SHE website and through the websites of academic institutions in Europe to attract the attention of the European and national research communities. In 2014 the SHE Twitter account and Facebook page will be used and maintained to support dissemination; the LinkedIn SHE discussion groups will be used and extended. Evaluation strategy A tender proposal will be developed in M1 to evaluate both process and impact of the activities of the SHE network from January 2014 until December 2014 carried out by an external evaluator. A detailed evaluation plan will be included in the SHE 2014 work plan including purpose, questions, design, method, measurement instruments, tasks, responsibilities and timing based on indicators. The results of the evaluation will be presented in a report that will be publicly available. The main questions are: 1. Were the activities, as described in the work plan SHE 2014, implemented as planned? 2. Did the activities, as described in the work plan SHE 2014, contribute to the strengthening and visibility of the SHE network? 3. Did the activities, as described in the work plan SHE 2014, contribute to the strengthening of the national networks and the professional development of the SHE members? 4. Did the activities, as described in the work plan SHE 2014, contribute to the visibility of the 2nd EU Public Health Programme? The following indicators have been identified to measure the performance of each of the objectives. Ad objective 1: provide support to the members of the SHE network number of participants of the SHE assembly meeting number of participants of the SHE assembly meeting who positively evaluated the meeting number of website visits and helpdesk questions availability of 4 newsletters Month Year I 13
number of subscriptions to the newsletter number of regional networks that joined the SHE network availability of online manual for schools in two new languages Ad objective 2: capacity building on school health promotion number of participants of the workshop on social media number of participants of the train-the-trainer workshop on online school manual number of participants of the workshop who evaluated the trainings as useful number of views of the e-learning modules on SHE website number of participants of the 2014 SHE summer school qualitative assessment of the summer school by the participants ways in which the participants intend to use the information from the summer school in their work or study Ad objective 3: advocacy on school health promotion number of views of the promotional video on SHE website number of languages the online manual is intended for translation number of orders of the innovative practice book on HPS national coordinators who intend to use the online manual number of downloads of the factsheet number of national coordinators who intend to use the innovative practice book and factsheet qualitative assessment of advocacy strategy by SHE national coordinators Ad objective 4: supporting research on school health promotion the number of people attending the meeting of the SHE research group availability of the minutes of the SHE research group meeting incl. writing workshop the number of people evaluating the meeting of the SHE research group as useful Proposed methods are: questionnaires to be filled in by those attending the meeting and workshops, telephone interviews with a representation of the SHE members, the SHE secretariat and the coordinator of the SHE research group and a document analysis of the deliverables. Coordination with other organisations in the field The SHE network has established and maintains links with WHO/Europe, Council of Europe and the European Commission (DG Sante and DG EAC), which were the founders of the network in 1992. The three organisations are a member of the SHE advisory board. Since 2008 HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey) is associated with SHE as a member of the advisory board. CBO has links with EuroHealthNet with its network of national public health and health promotion bodies and cooperates in the area of school health promotion and reducing health inequalities. CBO as coordinator of the 3-year EU-cofunded HEPCOM project cooperates with 20 associated partners and 13 collaborating partners. CBO has links with EPODE, European Parent Association, WISHES, the European Youth Forum and with the European Education Research Association. Collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) on communicable diseases and the health promoting school approach was initiated in 2012 and will be further continued. SHE Month Year I 14
cooperates with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) and the International School Health Network (ISHN) in advocating for school health promotion. CBO maintains working relations with Generation Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation, STENO Health Promotion Centre and PAU-education. CBO attends the yearly working meetings of WHO collaborating centres in Europe. One of the strategic objectives is to develop active collaboration with the education sector and other relevant sectors, including youth care, social care, environment and sustainable development at an international level. CBO is lobbying to include the health promoting school approach in relevant policy documents. Also, links are further developed between health promoting schools and related initiatives such as sustainable schools, safe schools, eco-schools and child-friendly schools. From 2010 CBO supports the WHO Nutrition Friendly School Initiative and the child s right initiative of Council of Europe. Month Year I 15
Deliverables of the operating grant Deliverable 01: Title of deliverable Detailed working plan SHE 2014 Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) Report for internal use Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Work plan describing objectives, activities, management, timetable, person responsible, deliverables, finances, dissemination plan and evaluation plan including indicators and methodology No Deliverable 02: Title of deliverable Leaflet SHE 2014 Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) In hard copy and as pdf on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Leaflet describing the work for SHE in 2014 Yes Deliverable 03: Title of deliverable Report of the SHE assembly meeting 2014 Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) In hard copy and as pdf on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's Report of the SHE assembly meeting held 8 10 October 2014, Tallinn, Estonia Yes Month Year I 16
project database? Deliverable 04: Title of deliverable Electronic SHE newsletter Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) On SHE website and via subscription to the newsletter on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Four electronic newsletters for all SHE stakeholders Yes Deliverable 05: Title of deliverable SHE factsheet Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) In hard copy and as pdf on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Factsheet on effective and sustainable networking on health promoting schools. Yes Deliverable 06: Title of deliverable e-learning programme Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) On the SHE website including downloadable pdfs Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? e-learning programme with modules on: SHE summer school, training online manual, video instructions Yes Month Year I 17
Deliverable 07: Title of deliverable Promotional video Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) On the SHE website and YouTube Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? 8 minute promotional video clip on how to engage as health promoting school Yes Deliverable 08: Title of deliverable Innovative practice book Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) In hard copy and electronic version as pdf on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Book with innovative practice stories on school health promotion collected at the 4th European HPS conference in Odense 2013 Yes Deliverable 09: Title of deliverable External evaluation report Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) In hard copy and electronic version as pdf on the SHE website Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Report on the results of the external evaluation of SHE 2014 Yes Month Year I 18
Deliverable 10: Title of deliverable Technical and financial report Nature (eg. report, book, website etc.) Report in hard copy Delivery date to CHAFEA 28 February 2015 Specific remarks on this deliverable Can the deliverable be published at CHAFEA's project database? Technical and financial report on SHE 2014, including the evaluation of process and impact of extending the network to regional networks, consultancy visits, SHE summer school, workshops, meeting of research group Yes Month Year I 19
Operating Grant implementation Organization and planning Objective 1: provide support to the members of the SHE network The 2014 SHE assembly meeting took place on 9 October 2014, in Tallinn, Estonia. The meeting was organised by CBO (SHE secretariat). There were 28 delegates in attendance, including SHE national and regional coordinators, members of the SHE research group and other experts in school health promotion. A report of the assembly was made available on the SHE network website in November 2014. The SHE website (www.schools-for-health.eu) aims to provide information, knowledge and exchanges of good practice between SHE members and stakeholders. In 2014 the website was visited 14 494 times. The website was maintained, regularly updated and restructured by CBO in order to increase access and attract more visitors. The SHE helpdesk (via she@cbo.nl) was consulted 162 times. Information about school health promotion was shared through social media. The LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts can all be accessed directly via links on the SHE network website. By the end of the project year the LinkedIn group had 145 members and 5 discussions were started; the Twitter account had 157 followers and had made 293 tweets ; there were 110 postings on the Facebook page and the page had received 104 likes. Four regular electronic newsletters were issued. During the year the setup of the newsletter was changed. The newsletter now contains short introductions to news items including a link to the full news item on the SHE website. This way of working increases the visibility of the SHE network website. By the end of 2014 five regional networks (Lombardy & Piedmont, Italy; Cantabria, Spain; Gelderland Zuid & Rotterdam, the Netherlands) joined the SHE network. Objective 2: capacity building on school health promotion As part of the training activities a one-day workshop on supporting the introduction of the 2013 online school manual in member states took place on 8 October 2014; the workshop was attended by 20 participants; a half day workshop on using social media for SHE network members was held on 10 October 2014. The workshop counted 20 participants. In addition another workshop was held on 10 October 2014 on school mental health promotion. All workshops were held in Tallinn, Estonia as part of the SHE assembly meeting. A report of the three workshops is included in the report of the SHE assembly meeting. The learning materials of the workshop on the SHE online school manual and on social media are available on the SHE website. The 2014 summer school was held on 23-27 June 2014 in Limerick, Ireland. The SHE summer school was targeted at researchers, PhD students and professionals working in practice and aimed to critically discuss current discourses in health education and health promotion research. The SHE summer school was attended by 16 participants from nine European countries. The training material has been made available through the SHE website in September of 2014; it is downloadable in pdf. Collegial consultation was stimulated through providing an online community on LinkedIn and Facebook. Four consultancy visits were carried out in 2014: 20-21 February 2014, Riga, Latvia (health promoting school workshop) 7-8 October 2014, Iceland, Meeting WP7, Joint Action Mental Health (Peter Paulus) Month Year I 20
31 October 2014,Nestle, Switzerland (SHE presentation, Nestle Healthy Kids programme) 2-4 December 2014, Moscow, Russian Federation (EECA workshop) Objective 3: advocacy on school health promotion Advocating for school health promotion is a key activity of the network which supports the work of the members of the network. In 2014 a leaflet has been developed on the work plan SHE 2014 with reference to the 2013 EU PHP, which is available in hard copy and on the SHE website as pdf. The three translations of the SHE online school that were made in 2013, have been piloted in Croatia, Czech republic and Estonia for online usability. The online school manual was translated into five additional languages in 2014. Four of the five new translations are already available on the website, i.e., Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Spanish. In 2014 SHE factsheet 3 was developed, titled Effective networks and partnerships for health promotion in schools. It is available as PDF on the SHE network website and provides a summary of what networks and partnerships in school health promotion are and why they are important. The innovative practice book Equity, education and health: Learning from practice was edited and published in 2014. It includes innovative practice stories on school health promotion collected at the 4th European conference on Health Promoting Schools held on 7-9 October 2013 in Odense, Denmark. It is available since October 2014 to be purchased in print on the CBO website and can also be downloaded for free as PDF on the SHE network website. The promotional video Introduction to health promoting schools in Europe and accompanying online guide to support future student involvement were produced and published in 2014. The video is an introduction to the health promoting school approach and includes examples of how four health promoting schools from three countries (Estonia, the Netherlands, Spain) have put this approach into practice as part of their school policy. The guide provides written instructions with visual examples (clips from the promotional video) to help students make their own promotional video. The promotional video is available with English, French and Italian subtitles on the SHE network website and YouTube. The guide is available on the SHE network website as PDF with images (visual examples) that link to video clips on YouTube. Objective 4: supporting research on school health promotion The yearly SHE research group meeting was held on 26-27 November 2014. The meeting was attended by 18 research group members. It focused on sharing and discussing developments in schools for health research including the new PhD studies by young members, planning and development of the joint symposiums for ECER 2015 and planning for future research group activities. The writing workshop was integrated in the meeting of the SHE research group. The meeting report is available on the SHE network website as PDF. In 2014 the SHE research group also undertook the following activities: EERA: network sessions at ECER 2014 Book entitled Schools for health and sustainability: Theory, research and practice was edited and published by research group members in 2014. The SHE summer school in Limerick, Ireland in June was organised, hosted and delivered by members of the group. Month Year I 21
Special edition of the peer reviewed journal Health Education on sex education in schools. List of seminars, conferences and other events attended, indicating organiser, number of part, date etc.: 23 January 2014: SHE planning committee; online meeting; organised by SHE secretariat; 6 participants. 28 January 2014: Seminar: How best to influence European eating habits towards an increased intake of fresh fruit and vegetables; Brussels, Belgium; organised by Agriculture & Food Denmark; 51 participants 15 May 2014: Russian Child Health conference; organised by the Russian Institute for Child Health; St Petersburg, Russian Federation; 200 participants 27-28 May 2014: SHE planning committee; Bergen, Norway; organised by SHE secretariat; 8 participants. 23-27 June 2014: SHE Summer School; Limerick, Ireland; organised by the University of Limerick, SHE research group and SHE secretariat; 16 participants. 8-10 October 2014: SHE assembly meeting and workshop on supporting the introduction of the 2013 online school manual in member states and workshop on using social media; Tallinn, Estonia; organised by SHE secretariat and the National Institute for Health Development in Estonia; 28 and 20 participants. 17 October 2014: French health promotion Conference; Paris, France; organised by UNIRES; 250 participants 11 November 2014: presentation students Maastricht University; organised by CBO; 30 participants 13-15 November 2014: International School Health Conference; Taipei, Taiwan; organised by Taiwan Health Promotion Board; 200 participants 11 December 2014: video presentation at south-east Asian School Feeding training course; organised by PCD (Partnership for Child Development); 50 participants 16 December 2014: SHE planning committee; online meeting; organised by SHE secretariat; 5 participants. A list of travel & substance costs in connection with the implementation of the programme of activities is included in the financial report. Changes to original plan: The user guide for SHE promotional video is a print guide with links to video examples (available as PDF on SHE website) instead of an online version. There were five translations of the SHE online school manual instead of the scheduled two translations. Due to lack of funding the e-learning components of the SHE 2014 operating grant were dealt with as follows: all PowerPoint presentations of the SHE summer school 2014 and the SHE workshops on the online school manual and social media were made available on the SHE website. It also led to include a budget for more e-learning capacity in the 2015 budget for the SHE network as part of the Specific Grant Agreement SHE 2015. External evaluation A qualitative evaluation of the execution of the tasks mentioned in Annex 1 of the grant agreement was done by UNIRES in France. The report Schools for Health in Europe network, External Evaluation Report 2014, operating grant CBO_FY2014 is enclosed. The main conclusions of the external evaluation report are listed below. Month Year I 22
Overall feedback on activities by SHE members Overall, SHE members are satisfied with the network s activities in 2014 and express how they can benefit from being a member. Improvements on overall SHE activities include to put more emphasis on the direct support to schools in the SHE member countries. Collaboration between SHE network members could also be further developed, with an improvement of how research fits in the broader SHE network. A specific point about evaluation and quality indicators was made as a potential future activity development. Specific comments by the SHE research group members emphasized the need for collaborative work within the group. Joint projects could be beneficial for the Research group but also for health promoting school research in general. Finally a call for specific health topics to be focused on in workshops (mental health, sexual health, injury) in addition to the need for more advocacy and negotiation tools to develop collaboration between the health and the education sector. All events in the workplan for 2014 did actually take place. Participants provided very positive feedback in regards these events. Concerning use of internet (website, newsletters, helpdesk, social media) activities were carried out as planned. Since the third factsheet was only disseminated in December, it is difficult to comment on its effect on the strengthening of the network, but the School Manual and the Good Practice book are clearly used as disseminating tools by SHE members. Also, material provided by the SHE network can serve as a good way to create new collaborations. In terms of visibility of the SHE network, the website is central (14.494 website visits, while the target was set at 12.000, including 8902 new visitors). Social media is also one of the essential tools uses by the SHE secretariat to improve visibility of the SHE network. Even though targets for social media activities were reached overall, results are mixed. Concerning research, some members of the research group point out the lack of visibility of research within the SHE network. According to them, this point should be improved, especially through the SHE website. Members added that they would like to have a platform where they could find the work of other members of the SHE research group. On a more local level, visibility of the SHE network is difficult to measure and assess. The data collected show that SHE deliverables are indeed used by professionals, tools and activities provided by the network do help to members in their practice thus participating to professional development. According to the interviews and questionnaires, SHE tools, materials and deliverables are acknowledged and very much appreciated, and several members encourage their production. Concerning the development of national networks, this seems to depend on the specific national context. No generalization can be drawn from our data, this process being a long-term one. However, in some countries there are strong links between national coordination teams and practitioners. This point should be evaluated regularly as an evolution process rather than a set objective. Activities implemented in 2014 will provide a great basis to continue and further develop networking within the SHE network as an ongoing and long-term process. The SHE network contributes to the objectives of the EU Public Health Programme, especially objective 2 (promoting health and reducing health inequalities) and objective 3 (generating and disseminating health information and knowledge). Month Year I 23