European Commission

The HEROES project receives funding from the European Union in the framework of the Public Health Programme.

Road safety is a health issue. With this project, we wanted to link road safety efforts with drug, alcohol and aids prevention.

Nowadays youngsters’ health is influenced by their day-to-day behaviour. Educative prevention and field actions have to be organized at many levels such as road safety, alcohol, drug and aids prevention because all those topics have an influence on young people’s health. To act on those fields, positive peer-to-peer communication has already shown its efficiency. The HEROES project is regrouping several associations using peer-to-peer communication on those four fields.

On 23 October 2007 the European Commission adopted a new Health Strategy, 'Together for Health: A Strategic Approach for the EU 2008-2013'. Building on current work, this Strategy aims to provide, for the first time, an overarching strategic framework spanning core issues in health as well as health in all policies and global health issues. The Strategy aims to set clear objectives to guide future work on health at the European level, and to put in place an implementation mechanism to achieve those objectives, working in partnership with Member States.

The Strategy focuses on four principles and three strategic themes for improving health in the EU. The principles include taking a value-driven approach, recognizing the links between health and economic prosperity, integrating health in all policies, and strengthening the EU's voice in global health.

Associations as EU Member States have to work in partnership because youth health problem is similar in almost all Member States. The European Commission is aware of the importance of an integrated and global approach using already existing best practices, linking all health problems and combining experiences of experts in those fields on a European level.

This website arises from the project HEROES which has received funding from the European Union in the framework of the Public Health Programme.