In the 16th course we welcomed 27 participants from 14 different countries:
From the second day on, each morning there were plenary sessions, during the first week starting with the country profiles, and followed by interactive lectures by the tutors.
The afternoons were used for work in tutor groups. Each group, consisting of a mixture of participants qua nationality, gender and scientific background, had to develop a health promotion action or research project. The groups each had two supervisors. The phases in the group work run parallel to the topics that were discussed in the morning sessions. The work resulted in five interesting projects:
- Building Synergistic Bridges between immigrants and local communities – an
international acculturation pilot-project - Grass Roots Of Wellbeing – Building Partnerships between Urban Neighbourhoods and Farms
- KIDS GO! A community action project to promote healthy weight among
primary school children in Europe - Objective Enough? Comparing and Contrasting Objective and Subjective Approaches
to Quality of Life and Equality in Five Cities - Improving Sense of Coherence in adolescents from minority groups by developing
Social Cohesion in order to reduce health inequalities
of the 16th Summer Course of the European Training Consortium in Public Health and Health Promotion
(ETC-PHHP) in co-operation with EUMAHP.
Founding Contributors
- Directorate of Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University
- Academy of Public Health in Düsseldorf
- Wageningen University STIR Fonds (Stimulation of International Relations)
Government Sponsors
- Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports, The Netherlands
- National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
- Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), Germany
- Ministry of Employment, Health and Social Affairs of the state of North Rhine-Westfalia (MAGS-NRW)
Summer Course Sponsors
- Department of Communication Science, Wageningen University
- Netherlands Institute of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NIGZ)
- HLP Hirzel Leder und Partner, Management Consulting GbR, Frankfurt am Main
- Wageningen Academic Publishers