EU call on Behavioural interventions for the primary prevention of NCDs in young people
Dear Oleksandr, Monika Robnik kindly passed on to me your message expressing interest in joining an existing consortium in response to the above call. I am leading a proposal for this call, in collaboration with a number of National Public Health Institutes and Universities, as well as youth organisations. The proposal builds in part of the two large European Joint actions PreventNCD and JACARDI, as well as on previous Horizon projects that members of the consortium have coordinated. The proposal is quite advanced at this stage, as you may imagine, but we are still looking for some additional partners, in particular for the implementation of interventions. I will try to give you a brief overview of the proposal here. If you find it of interest, I will be happy to send you additional details on how we envisage the role of countries that implement interventions. We are working on three health areas that are strongly associated with young people's behaviours in the age range on which the call is focused (12-25). These are obesity and metabolic health; mental health; and addictions (broadly covering, alcohol, tobacco, substance use, gambling, screen addictions etc.). We have identified two key transitions within the relevant age range. The transition from early to late adolescence (age 12-18, coinciding with secondary school years) and the transition from secondary school to tertiary education/work/independent living (age 19-25). For each of these two age subgroups, we have created intervention packages that include multiple components, as follows: 1. For the age group 12-18: * Health and digital literacy * Self-management of digital media use * Health promoting environments and nudges * Resources and services 2. For the age group 19-25: * Health and digital literacy * Device-assisted monitoring and feedback * Health promoting environments and nudges Ideally, countries participating as implementing countries will be able to select on one intervention package, but will be required to implement all components, if at all possible. It is not expected that a single organisation (e.g. the Public Health Institute) takes care of implementing the entire package. They can work with other partners (locally or from other countries) on components they need support with. I will stop here for the moment. I think there is probably enough for you to at least make a first assessment of whether this project may be of interest for your Institute. I look forward to hearing your views before discussing further. Needless to say, please, treat the information in this message as confidential. Thank you for reaching out to us. Yours sincerely, Franco Franco Sassi PhD Chair in International Health Policy and Economics Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI) Imperial Business School London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Email: f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: +44(0)207 594 9157
Dear Oleksandr, May I follow up on my message below, and enquire whether you have had a chance to consider whether you are interested in joining our grant proposal? Please, let me know if you would like to receive additional information on any aspects of the proposal at this stage. Looking forward to hearing from you. Franco From: Sassi, Franco Sent: 20 March 2026 18:57 To: 'o.yurchenko@phc.org.ua' <o.yurchenko@phc.org.ua> Cc: zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>; Monika Robnik <monika.robnik@nijz.si> Subject: EU call on Behavioural interventions for the primary prevention of NCDs in young people Dear Oleksandr, Monika Robnik kindly passed on to me your message expressing interest in joining an existing consortium in response to the above call. I am leading a proposal for this call, in collaboration with a number of National Public Health Institutes and Universities, as well as youth organisations. The proposal builds in part of the two large European Joint actions PreventNCD and JACARDI, as well as on previous Horizon projects that members of the consortium have coordinated. The proposal is quite advanced at this stage, as you may imagine, but we are still looking for some additional partners, in particular for the implementation of interventions. I will try to give you a brief overview of the proposal here. If you find it of interest, I will be happy to send you additional details on how we envisage the role of countries that implement interventions. We are working on three health areas that are strongly associated with young people's behaviours in the age range on which the call is focused (12-25). These are obesity and metabolic health; mental health; and addictions (broadly covering, alcohol, tobacco, substance use, gambling, screen addictions etc.). We have identified two key transitions within the relevant age range. The transition from early to late adolescence (age 12-18, coinciding with secondary school years) and the transition from secondary school to tertiary education/work/independent living (age 19-25). For each of these two age subgroups, we have created intervention packages that include multiple components, as follows: 1. For the age group 12-18: * Health and digital literacy * Self-management of digital media use * Health promoting environments and nudges * Resources and services 2. For the age group 19-25: * Health and digital literacy * Device-assisted monitoring and feedback * Health promoting environments and nudges Ideally, countries participating as implementing countries will be able to select on one intervention package, but will be required to implement all components, if at all possible. It is not expected that a single organisation (e.g. the Public Health Institute) takes care of implementing the entire package. They can work with other partners (locally or from other countries) on components they need support with. I will stop here for the moment. I think there is probably enough for you to at least make a first assessment of whether this project may be of interest for your Institute. I look forward to hearing your views before discussing further. Needless to say, please, treat the information in this message as confidential. Thank you for reaching out to us. Yours sincerely, Franco Franco Sassi PhD Chair in International Health Policy and Economics Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI) Imperial Business School London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Email: f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: +44(0)207 594 9157
participants (1)
-
Sassi, Franco