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Smart prevention works ! Empowering European students to adopt a responsible lifestyle.

24-01-2018

Smart prevention works !  Empowering European students to adopt a responsible lifestyle.

Student life broadens horizons and brings new opportunities. This freedom impacts student lifestyle in many positive ways but it also entails new challenges for their health and wellbeing.

To better understand risky behaviours among students and raise awareness on the harms of excessive alcohol consumption, the European student organization Erasmus Student Network and Pernod Ricard launched in 2007 a unique pan-European programme called Responsible Party. Through this collaboration, which targets in average 50 000 students per year across Europe, binge drinking is challenged through peer-to-peer interventions and a balanced lifestyle is promoted.

The efficiency of Responsible Party programme was measured over the past 2 years through an independent scientific evaluation carried out by the Catholic University of Louvain. The report has demonstrated positive outcomes, showing that smart peer-to-peer prevention works and that information sharing is key to significantly decrease harm during student parties.

This kind of partnership offers new perspectives in the field of promotion of health and wellbeing for young people in the framework of a future European Union youth strategy. However, there are still many challenges that lie ahead.

EURACTIV invites you to a high-level debate to discuss the role of smart prevention and the future of the European students: Questions will include:

- Should programmes such as Responsible Party be implemented in a more systematic way?
- How to effectively mobilise partnerships amongst key stakeholders?
- How should national and European Institutions be involved in this kind of programmes?
- How to make sure that Responsible Party initiatives can be extended to students that are not part of Erasmus programmes?
- What should be done in order for the EU Health Forum to play a more active role in this direction?

Supported by:

ESN

Location

Hotel Sofitel Brussels Europe
Place Jourdan 1, 1040 Brussels

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Panellists

Presentation of the study
Patrícia Gonçalves, Chair of the Education Committee, Erasmus Student Network (ESN)

Panel
Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, Minister of Education, Portugal
Momchil Nekov, MEP, Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament
Arunas Vinciunas, Head of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis’ Cabinet - Health & Food Safety, European Commission
Szabolcs Horvath, Member of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics' Cabinet - Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, European Commission
Alexandre Ricard, Chairman & CEO, Pernod Ricard
João Pinto, President, Erasmus Student Network (ESN)

Moderator

Sarantis Michalopoulos, Journalist, EURACTIV

Schedule

16:30 – 17:00 Registration
17:00 – 17:10 Presentation of the study
17:10 – 17:30 Experts views
17:30 – 18:20 Debate – open discussion
18:20 – 18:30 Conclusions
18:30 – 19:00 Renewal of the ESN – Pernod Ricard partnership
19:00 – 20:00 Networking cocktail

Contact

Simona Ovesea
simona.ovesea@euractiv.com
+32 (0)2 788 36 86

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