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To support the free and open dissemination of research findings and information on alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. To encourage open access to peer-reviewed articles free for all to view.

For full versions of posted research articles readers are encouraged to email requests for "electronic reprints" (text file, PDF files, FAX copies) to the corresponding or lead author, who is highlighted in the posting.

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Thursday, May 3, 2007

EU funding: Call for proposals for public health programme

The Public Health Executive Agency (PHEA) is the European Commission’s Executive Agency for the Public Health Programme. It was set up to manage the Community Public Health Programme through managing projects funded under the Public Health Programme, organising Technical Meetings, and feeding back the results to the user community and into the policy making process at national and EU level.

PHEA has published a call for proposals for projects that support the Commission's Public Health Programme 2007 Work Plan. Details here; the closing date is 21st May 2007.

The parts of the programme directly related to alcohol are in section 2.1.3.1. of the Work Plan: Supporting key Community strategies on addictive substances

Alcohol related activities will be linked to the overall strategic approach to reduce alcohol-related harm, as set out in the Commission communication on an EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol-related harm. The projects proposals should focus on:

  • development of a standardised methodology of cost-benefit analyses of alcohol policies to evaluate the economic impact of existing alcohol policies in the EU;
  • development of standardised comparative surveys on heavy drinking, binge-drinking (episodic heavy drinking), drunkenness, context of drinking, alcohol dependence and unrecorded consumption;
  • collection of best practices in work-place strategies to reduce the impact of harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption on the economy (e.g. reduce absenteeism, drinking during working hours, working with a hangover and unemployment);
  • networking, evaluation and collection of best practises on well-resourced community mobilisation and intervention projects, involving different sectors and partners to create safer drinking environments;
  • supporting development of best practice in advertising, self regulation and monitoring.
Contributor: Libby Ranzetta
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