12th EUSPR Conference Program 2021

The final version of the online programme of the 12th EUSPR Conference can be found here. 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 […]

2021 EUSPR Pre-conference workshops

For workshop registration, please visit our Ex Ordo website.  Workshop 1: Unplugged – Wednesday, 29th September, 9:00 – 10:30 CEST Presenters: Annemie Coone and Johan Jongbloet The workshop is aimed at experienced school prevention trainers from the EU-Dap Faculty network focusing on the implementation of online Unplugged activities for teachers. We also open up to […]

Save the date: 12th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, 29th September – 1st October, 2021, Online

Prevention in a COVID Recovery Society We are pleased to announce that the 12th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting will take place online on 30th September – 1st October 2021, with workshops scheduled for the 29th September. The theme this year is ‘Prevention in a COVID Recovery Society’ and the conference will discuss the challenges […]

Dissemination of the new NPSC Prevention Science Statement

The National Prevention Science Coalition (NPSC) edited a representative statement answering “What is Prevention Science”, to reflect the current thinking in the field. It had been endorsed by EUSPR as by many other organisations. Recently NPSC suggested a subtle change which we also endorsed, content with this much needed nuance. Specifically, rather than referring to substance misuse or abuse, we are using the convention, Substance Use Disorder (SUD), which subsumes all aspects of substance use that are problematic.

EUSPR invites its members to post this statement on your website to ensure that we are all uniformly representing the essence and value of prevention science.

New issue on Culture of Prevention

Culture of Prevention, a difficult concept to define but important to protect Public Health. If we have learned nothing else from COVID, prevention should be paramount. Springer recently sent a table of contents alert for Prevention Science Volume 22, Issue 1, now available online. It contains a Special Section: Promoting a Culture of Prevention: An International Perspective.

Follow this link: Volume 22, Issue 1 . Additionally you can go to the APSI Int’l website https://www.apsintl.org/previous-talks-recordings to hear comments of Craig PoVey and Claudia Zundel on the topic.

(Postponed) 12th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, September 29th – October 1st, 2021, in Tallinn, Estonia

Prevention – Between Ethics and Effectiveness Due to COVID-19 measures, we will have an online conference this year. We hope to see you all in Tallinn in 2022! The theme next year is ‘Prevention – Between Ethics and Effectiveness’ and the conference will discuss the challenges of being both effective and ethical in prevention. Different […]

Position of the European Society for Prevention Research on ineffective and potentially harmful appr...

Prevention methods using shock tactics are proven to be ineffective. Nevertheless, strategies based on predominantly providing information about the dangers of substance use are widespread in Europe. The European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) is concerned about those so-called prevention strategies. It calls on decisionmakers, influencers and policymakers to use scientific proof of effectiveness as a criterion for exposing our youth to prevention methods and not to spend public money on rather commercial offers, since there are better and less expensive alternatives.

2019 EUSPR Post-conference workshops

This year we have 3 workshops available in the morning session (9:30-12:30) and 2 workshops in the afternoon (13:30-16:30). *The workshops require a minimum of 10 participants*  For workshop registration, please visit our Eventbrite page: EUSPR 2019 Post-conference workshop registration. Closing date for online registration is 8 September 2019. Post-conference workshops will take place at the Royal Academy of […]

EUSPR Board Elections 2019

On the following pages, you will find the candidate statements for the elections for the EUSPR Board 2019-2022. Please click on the relevant roles to read these. The election results will be announced at the 2019 Members Meeting.  Selection will be via electronic voting which will take place between 08/07/19 and 07/08/19. A reminder of the process can be […]

Registration – 10th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting 2019

Early bird registration deadline has been extended! Closing date for online registration is 8 September 2019. Early-bird fees are available until 15 July 2019. Full joining instructions will be emailed after the registration closing date. The link to our online payment and registration service (Eventbrite) is at the bottom of this page. Registration is open […]

Tenth EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, September 16th – 18th 2019, Ghent, Belgium

EUSPR 2019 is being held in Ghent, Belgium on 16th and 17th September 2019, with workshops and project meetings scheduled for the 18th. Our theme this year is ‘Looking over the Wall’ and our keynotes and special sessions will focus on optimising cross-disciplinary working and improving the ways in which different groups in the prevention field – practitioners, policy makers, researchers, communities – can work together.

Ninth EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting, October 24th – 26th 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

Prevention Technologies – improving the use of evidence in prevention practice   Registration has now ended Early Career Pre-conference workshopsOnline programmeHotels and TravelConference mealThings to do in LisbonMeet our keynotesEUSPR Knowledge ExchangeInstructions for presenters Joining InstructionsConference programme EUSPR 2018 Participants List 2018 Keynote presentations Translating research findings into prevention policy and practice remains a challenge, […]

Plenary talks

Here are the plenary talks from our 8th Annual Conference. Please note that these have been converted into PDF, so there may be some formatting errors. What are the consequences of prevention polices? – Dr Kathryn Oliver (University of Oxford, UK) Oliver A fruity story of attaining and maintaining quality in an evidence-based programme – […]

Reflection on the 8th EUSPR Conference

Society Treasurer, Andrew Brown, offers a personal reflection* of this year’s EUSPR conference It’s so easy for all the great talks you hear at a multi-day conference like EUSPR’s annual get together to start to blur into each other, and that isn’t fair on the people who have presented.  All of them have carefully thought […]

Health Promotion Core Competencies Survey

Barbara Battel-Kirk, a PhD student at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), invites you to take part in a survey which aims to evaluate the usage and impact of core competencies on Health Promotion practice and education in Europe between 2012 and 2017. This survey forms the first stage of her PhD research within the Discipline of […]