The European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) promotes the development of prevention science, and its application to practice so as to promote human health and well-being through high quality research, evidence based interventions, policies and practices.

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13th EUSPR Conference update: abstract submission extended

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The deadline for abstract submission for the 13th EUSPR Conference has been extended until June 15th, 2022.

Abstract proposals for poster or oral poster presentations may be submitted through the Ex Ordo platform (https://euspr2022.exordo.com/submissions/new). All proposals will be peer reviewed and the scientific committee may suggest changes.

The 13th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on 28th-30th September 2022, with workshops scheduled for the 28th September.

Our theme this year is ‘Prevention – Between Ethics and Effectiveness’ and our keynotes and special sessions, in a hybrid format, will focus on discussing the challenges of being both effective and ethical in prevention. Different aspects of ethical prevention will be explored, such as if prevention or doing prevention is always ethical, what is prevention allowed to do, how ethical aspects can affect the strategic communication about interventions, and what can science learn from practice about interventions.

We invite you to prepare and submit abstracts on the conference theme, but also welcome submissions on all prevention science related topics, including discussion papers, and theoretical and methodological developments in the following formats:

2022 EUSPR Board Elections – Call for nominations

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Dear EUSPR Members,

Nominations are now open for the elections to the 2022 – 2025 EUSPR Board positions of: 

  • President Elect
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary
  • 6 additional Board members

The EUSPR Board plays a central role in the work of the Society and its strategic development. Membership of the Board provides an exciting opportunity to be part of this work, and to develop new skills and experience.

The Society actively encourages nominations from across its membership, and is committed to promoting principles of equality and diversity. After 10 years of presidencies held by male EUSPR members, we strongly insist in encouraging female candidates for president-elect to come forward.
Please note the deadline for nominations is 29/04/22.

The election results will be announced at the 2022 Members Meeting. Selection will be via electronic voting which will take place between 08/07/22 and 07/08/22.

Please, find here the nomination form: Nominations form

Informal inquiries about the work of the Board and the roles and responsibilities of Board members can be directed to the President,
Peer van der Kreeft, e-mail peer.vanderkreeft@hogent.be
The term of office of the new board will begin immediately after the Members Meeting in September 2022 (30/09/22).
 
The procedure is as follows:

  1. Call for nominations (08/04/2022 – 29/04/22)
  2. Eligible nominees are invited to stand for election. Nominees are required to provide a short statement outlining how they have contributed to prevention science in Europe and how they will assist the Board to fulfil the EUSPR Mission Statement and advance the Society. (Invitations for statements issued 02/05/22, deadline for statements
    06/06/22)
  3. For some Board positions, the current Board may endorse particular candidates. This will be done to promote continuity of activity and responsibility across the work of the Society, such as the conference lead or representation at the Xchange review board. The editor-in-chief of the EUSPR journal has a permanent advisory role in the Board. Regardless of any endorsement, members will be free to vote for their preferred candidates.
  4. Candidate statements are published on the EUSPR website and online voting will be opened to EUSPR members.
    (01/07/22)
  5. Voting will take place electronically between 08/07/22 and 07/08/22 in accordance with the EUSPR Statute
  6. The results will be announced during the 2022 EUSPR Conference and Members Meeting, September 2022 (30/09/19).

Nominees must be EUSPR members at the point at which they become a candidate. You may join the Society or renew your membership; details are available on the EUSPR website: http://euspr.org/membership/

Sent on behalf of Peer van der Kreeft,
President, European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR)

8th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents

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Dear EUSPR community, we are pleased to inform you of the upcoming 8th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents.

The 8th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents is a scientific meeting where the latest challenges in child and adolescent psychological assessment, psychopathology and treatment are addressed. The congress is organized by the AITANA Research Group (Analysis, Intervention and Applied Therapy with Children and Adolescents) of Miguel Hernández University (Spain). Around 600 academics and professionals from over 50 countries have participated in previous editions. 

The 2022 edition will be held in Elche (Alicante, Spain), with a program that includes plenary lectures, applied sessions for professionals, meetings with experts and more than 40 monographic symposiums. This year, we have the privilege to have, among others, Peter Muros (The Netherlands), Kristine Doyle (USA), Annette Lagreca (USA), Carolina Braet (Belgium) and Samuele Cortese (UK) as some of our guests.

The deadline for submitting papers and for registering for the congress is open (click here). We are very pleased to announce that EUSPR members can benefit from a reduced rate (16% discount) if registration is made before July 19th. 

 

Please, find below the details of the congress:

Name: 8th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents.
Date: 16th November – 19th November 2022.
Place: Elx, Alicante, Spain.
Website: https://www.aitanacongress.com/2022/en/home/

EUPHA new benefits for EUSPR members

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Dear EUSPR members, due to our affiliation with the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), we are happy to introduce to you the latest EUPHA member benefit: the EUPHA resources module (a short introduction to this new module can be viewed here https://vimeo.com/685380052). 

In the ‘Skillsbuilding for National public health association’ folder it is currently offered three presentations:

  1. Nathalie de Sousa, from the Dutch Federation for Health gives a demonstration of their member’s portal. She gives tips & tricks for creating an interactive virtual environment for members.
  2. Maggie Rae, the president of the UK Faculty of Public Health gives a presentation of the UK Faculty of public health’s most successful advocacy work and its impact. She  gives tips for organising public health advocacy
  3. John Middleton, president of Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) showcases the ASPHER-EUPHA collaboration and opportunities of collaborating with schools of public health.

All the EUPHA workshops that were held during the WCPH2020 and the EPH2021 are also available.

In addition, EUPHA work plan, annual reports and the statutes and bylaws as well as documents and minutes of the annual meetings are available in the Governing Board folder.

 

 

Save the date: 13th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, 28th – 30th September 2022, Tallinn, Estonia

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The final printed programme in PDF version can be found here:

2022 EUSPR Conference Programme

Printed copies of the programme will also be available in your delgate packs.

EUSPR 2022 is being held in Tallinn, Estonia on 29th and 30th September 2022, with workshops and project meetings scheduled for the pre-conference day, September 28th.

Our theme this year is ‘Prevention – Between Ethics and Effectiveness’ and our keynotes and special sessions, in a hybrid format, will focus on discussing the challenges of being both effective and ethical in prevention.  

Different aspects of ethical prevention will be explored, such as if prevention or doing prevention is always ethical, what is prevention allowed to do, how ethical aspects can affect the strategic communication about interventions, and what can science learn from practice about interventions.

We invite you to prepare and submit abstracts on the conference theme, but also welcome submissions on all prevention science related topics, including discussion papers, and theoretical and methodological developments.

In addition to these exciting theme presentations, there will be many opportunities for exploring the city of Tallinn, trying out the tastes of Estonia and discovering the culture while socializing with familiar and new colleagues.

We encourage everyone to visit the conference’s Estonian website and join the Facebook event, where all useful information will stay up to date. 

Fees have been determined in correspondence with the average academic salary of the country of employment, adjusted for the cost of living.

If you are an early career, consider applying for a bursary to attend the conference in person.

Early bird fees (from 15th June – 31st July 2022) – Level A & B countries

  • EUSPR Members (includes 2023 membership) – 170€ 
  • Full renewal (includes 2022 and 2023 membership) – 255€ (Level A); 215€ (Level B) 
  • Non-members of the EUSPR (includes 2023 membership) – 220€

Early bird fees (from 15th June – 31st July 2022) – Level C countries, students, retirees/seniors

  • EUSPR Members (includes 2023 membership) – 75€ 
  • Full renewal (includes 2022 and 2023 membership) –  105€ 
  • Non-members of the EUSPR (includes 2023 membership) – 125€

Full fees for Level A & B countries (available from 1st August – 8th September 2022)

  • EUSPR Members (includes 2023 membership) – 195€ 
  • Full renewal (includes 2022 and 2023 membership) – 280€ (Level A), 240€ (Level B). 
  • Non-members of the EUSPR (includes 2023 membership) – 245€

Full fees for Level C countries, students, retirees/seniors (available from 1st August – 8th September 2022)

  • EUSPR Members (includes 2023 membership) – 100€ 
  • Full renewal (including 2022 and 2023 membership) – 130€ 
  • Non-members of the EUSPR (includes 2023 membership) – 150€

Virtual registration

  • Access to poster presentations and keynote sessions during the conference
  • Virtual poster presentation via Slack
  • EUSPR 2023 membership
  • 100€

You can set up your ExOrdo account and register for the conference here!

Group A countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and the USA.

Group B countries: Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, and Turkey.

Group C countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. This category also includes all other countries in non-European territories that have not been mentioned above.

We invite you to prepare and submit abstracts on the conference theme, but also welcome submissions on all prevention science related topics, including discussion papers, and theoretical and methodological developments. Abstract submission is open from Monday 30th of March until Tuesday 30th of May. Outcomes will be announced before the end of our Early Bird registration period”.

If you have any questions, contact the conference manager at conference@euspr.org.

EUSPR 2022 Scientific Committee

       

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases’ (GACD) funding call

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The EUSPR board forwards you this funding call from the European Commission for research proposals for “A Life Course Approach to Common Non-communicable Disease Risk Factor Prevention and Reduction. The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases’ (GACD) call focuses on implementation research. Objectives of the call are very similar to those of our society.

Please, find below full call text or check the following link for more information.

The deadline for the call is April 21st.

The Seventh GACD research funding call – FULL CALL TEXT

Call for Reviewer – Journal of Prevention

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The Journal of Prevention is now the Official Journal of EUSPR. We are recruiting new reviewers that will help guarantee the publication of high-quality manuscripts in the Journal. 

The “Call for Reviewer” offers an opportunity for Regular Reviewers who are already experts in prevention research and for Early-Career Researchers who wish to start reviewing manuscripts under the supervision of a member of the Editorial Board. Early-Career Researchers will receive mentoring from experienced researchers and have the opportunity to discuss their reviews with their mentors before they are submitted to the Journal.

Regular Reviewers refer to researchers with more than five years of experience (after their doctoral degree) in the prevention field with expertise in the process of reviewing manuscripts.  

Early-Career Researchers are doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers with less than five years of experience (after their doctoral degree) interested in developing expertise in the peer-review process in the prevention field. Candidates from different disciplines are encouraged to apply, particularly those interested in prevention or health promotion in the fields of substance use and abuse, mental health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, violence prevention, sexual health, or academic performance. Applicants that are interested in prevention methodology, research methods, and different qualitative and quantitative study designs in prevention science, are also very welcome.

Candidates that apply for the position will be added to our reviewer database and be asked to state their areas of interest. The journal editorial board will analyze the applications, and candidates will be contacted as soon as we have a paper that matches their areas of interest.

The main goal is to offer an opportunity for Early-Career researchers who wish to start reviewing manuscripts under the mentorship of a member of the Editorial Board to increase the pool of quality reviewers of the Journal of Prevention.

JOP is committed to providing timely reviews, and reviewing a manuscript takes time (1–4 hours per manuscript reviewed depending on your expertise). Reviewers are generally asked to complete assignments within three weeks of manuscript submission. If you are selected to review a manuscript, be prepared to invest the necessary time to evaluate the manuscript thoroughly. At each issue, JOP features an ‘Acknowledgment of Reviewers’ section naming all those who have actively peer-reviewed for that issue to give reviewers public recognition.

To register your interest, please fill in this form.

 
 

Journal of Prevention Special Issue

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The official Journal of EUSPR opens a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Climate Change and Population Health, submission deadline 15 July 2022.

Guest Editors are two of our distinguished founders, Rosaria Galanti, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and Fabrizio Faggiano, Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy. All publication types are welcome: Original research articles; Debate (expert comments); Systematic reviews; Practitioner narrative; Brief Report. We invite for contributions on the following topics:

  1. Prognostic models of environmental changes
  2. Impact models of environmental changes
  3. Impact of environmental changes on physical and mental health and wellbeing
  4. Impact of climate change on health systems
  5. Mitigation actions: theoretical assumptions, development, evaluation
  6. Co-benefits of mitigation actions: impact of policies and strategies to contrast the climate change on health outcomes
  7. Co-benefits of mitigation actions: impact of behavioral changes on health and the environment
  8. Adaptation strategies

Read more https://www.springer.com/journal/10935/updates/20113882

The Journal of Prevention, with EUSPR member Zila Sanchez as Editor-in-Chief, will soon be free and easy available for EUSPR members. The Journal is looking forward to receiving  EUSPR members’ submissions. Please, read Journal’s aims, scope, and guidelines at:  https://www.springer.com/journal/10935“

EUSPR current activities

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Dear members of the European Society for Prevention Research, 

I wish you all a prosperous and enjoyable new year. Hopefully we are expecting more and more intense encounters. Looking back on difficulties and suffering, we also have experienced and studied emerging, sometimes fierce facets of prevention. The online meetings EUSPR was able to establish showed that not only the changed mode of gathering was appreciated, but also the focus on COVID related topics we are working with. 

We have several exciting activities ahead. First of all this year takes off with the renewed version of the well-known Journal of Primary Prevention. The journal is from 2022 on affiliated with EUSPR and will carry a new name. As an EUSPR member you have free access and will have lots of possibilities to submit articles, papers, briefs. The first edit is about to be published, stay up to date!

Our meeting and conference will this year take place in Tallin, Estonia, 28 to 30 September. With the theme “Prevention – Between Ethics and Effectiveness”, the Tallin team and scientific committee are preparing a strong program with a variation of meeting modes. 

From this year on EUSPR is co-producing a Prevention Track in the LXAddiction conferences (https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/lisbon-addictions-2022/). The 23-25 November 2022 conference in Lisbon will have a stronger and more intense presence of prevention expertise. You can submit abstracts for three themes: Cultures of prevention, Environmental prevention and Cross-domain prevention. Mind the deadline in the Abstract Submission page for LX Addictions: 31 January. Please take this opportunity to strengthen the voice of prevention science in this network of addiction professionals. 

Looking forward to meeting you in the course of this year, 

Peer van der Kreeft, 

President of the EUSPR

12th EUSPR Conference Program 2021

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The final version of the online programme of the 12th EUSPR Conference can be found here 2021 Program

Schedules are shown in Central European Summer Time (CEST), military time format.

Wednesday 29th September 2021

Pre-conference workshops

  • Workshop 1: How to build bridges between agile development, ethics and impact in prevention? 9:00 – 12:00 CEST
  • Workshop 2: From threat to opportunity – and back again? Digital prevention following the COVID-19 pandemic 13:00 – 14:30 CEST (Early Career Workshop)
  • Workshop 3: Restorative justice and prevention of sexual violence 13:00 – 16:00 CEST
  • Workshop 4: Unplugged 9:00 – 10:30 CEST

Main Conference Programme

Thursday 30th September 2021 – Conference Day 1

9:30-10:00 Welcome ceremony  

10:00-11:00 Prevention and COVID-19

11:00-11:30 Coffee break in Slack

11:30-12:30 Poster & oral posters in Slack Session 1

15:00-16:00 Poster & oral posters in Slack Session 2 (Early Careers)

16:00-17:00 Climate Change and Health (joint activity SPR-BRAPEP-EUSPR)

17:00-17:30 Climate Change and Health: Discussion with delegates and keynotes in Slack

Friday 1st October 2021 – Conference Day 2

9:30-10:30 Poster & oral posters in Slack Session 3

10:30-11:00 Coffee break in Slack

11:00-12:00 Adapting prevention programmes to new contexts: lessons learned

12:00-12:30 Adapting prevention programmes to new contexts: Discussion with delegates and keynotes in Slack

13:00-14:00 Impact of COVID-19 in adolescence

14:00-14:30 Adolescence and COVID-19 impact: Discussion with delegates and keynotes in Slack

15:30-16:30 Poster & oral posters in Slack Session 4

16:30-17:30 Members’ meeting

18:00 Awards and closing ceremony