As part of the Health promotion through Obesity Prevention across Europe (HOPE) project, a Europe-wide search was conducted in order to locate relevant past and ongoing projects capable of providing data on behavioural patterns and environmental factors associated with the risk of overweight and obesity in youth.
The principal investigators of the projects were approached with regard to the possibility of conducting secondary analysis on their data and they were invited to a writing workshop, which was arranged in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, during 7–8 April 2008.
This special issue with its ten original articles is a direct result of this effort. An additional two papers facilitated by the workshop have been published elsewhere.
We would like to thank the two distinguished experts in our field of research for reviewing the manuscripts, all the contributing authors for their efforts and enthusiastic support, and Dr Marianne Wind for conducting the search for relevant projects, contacting the principal investigators and organizing the writing workshop.
Oslo, July 2010
Acknowledgement
This supplement has been facilitated by the EU-funded HOPE project ‘Health promotion through Obesity Prevention across Europe’ (the Commission of the European Communities, SP5A-CT-2006-044128). The studies do not necessarily reflect the Commission’s views and in no way anticipate the Commission’s future policy in this area. The manuscripts included in this supplement were facilitated by a workshop funded in part by the Throne Holst Foundation of Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
