Dear Sir/Madam,
 
We would like to thank you for attending the EPODE Mayor’s Club European Congress that was held last June 27th with the support of Health and Consumers DG of the European Commission. Welcoming nearly 100 participants from 12 EU Member States, its success is due to your active participation and interest for new ways of curbing obesity through the EPODE approach.

To download the highlights of the congress, please click here.
 
As a reminder, you will find here below the programme of the meeting and also the presentations of the speakers.
 
We do hope that you enjoyed this event as we did and stay naturally at your disposal for any further information.
 
Kind regards,

Mr. Philippe MOST  
Honorary chair of the EPODE Mayor’s Club, France,
President of the European Alliance for EPODE

• Programme

• Introduction by Mr Robert Madelin, Director General for Health and Consumers (European Commission)

• Introduction
• Cities and regions, key players for sustainable health policies regarding childhood obesity prevention - Mr Lucio Gussetti, Consultative works Director, Committee of the Regions
• Presentation of the EPODE Programme - Mrs Sandrine Raffin, Dr Jean-Michel Borys, Co-directors of the EPODE Programme

• EPODE Programme OUTPUTS
• Support and implementation of the programme at regional level – Mrs Conxa Castell, Representative from the Public health Division of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia
• Support and implementation of the programme at local level - Ms Catherine Willems, local project manager, Town community of Flandres-Lys
• Key components of the EPODE approach in cities – Ms Claire Beuil, Deputy Mayor for Health, City of Beauvais

• EPODE Programme INPUTS
• Programme engineering – Mrs Mireille Roillet , Mr Rafael Casas , national coordinators of Viasano (Belgium) and Thao Salud Infantil (Spain)
• Political input and cross-sectional approach in the cities : concrete examples - Mrs Monique Valaize , Deputy mayor, city of Béziers (France) ; Mr José Manuel Avila , Deputy mayor, city of Villanueva de la Cañada (Spain)
• The role of experts from different fields – Mr Jan Vinck, Member of the scientific expert committee, Viasano Programme

• Monitoring and Evaluation of Community-based interventions
• Challenges of the monitoring and evaluation of an EPODE-like community-based intervention - Pr Jaap C. Seidell, Director Institute of Health Sciences, VU university, Amsterdam

• How to develop and implement an EPODE programme?
• Importance of political support to facilitate the deployment of EPODE throughout Europe – Mr Philippe Most, Honorary Chair, EPODE Mayors’ club
• Deployment of the EPODE Programme in a new country – Ms Helena Stamou, managing Director of Nostus Company, strategic and operational Coordinator of EPODE Greece
• Deployment of the EPODE Programme in a megalopolis: the example of Paris – Jean-Marie Le Guen, MP and Head of the working group on obesity, Paris Deputy Mayor for Health

• Financing EPODE: support of economic players
• What does multistakeholders partnership mean? - Mr Christophe Roy, Epode coordination team
• Roundtable: Ms Christina Drotz (Nestlé), Ms Sylvie Chartron (Mars), Ms Sophie Fourchy (Carrefour)