In collaboration with the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), the Obelisk project will run an annual policy workshop for the length of the project’s duration. The policy workshop will gather national and local health policy representatives and experts in the field of obesity to discuss opportunities and strategies to craft effective policy to combat childhood obesity.
There have been three editions of these workshops, which took place at the Annual ECOG Congress. Insights from each of the workshops can be found below:
- 33rd ECOG Congress, 10th October 2024, Ghent, Belgium. Experts Agree on the Need for a Strong Regulatory Framework to Address Childhood Obesity.
- 34th ECOG Congress, November 2025, Uppsala, Sweden. Cementing Childhood Obesity as a Priority Across Political Mandates.
- 35th ECOG Congress, 18th September 2626, Salzburg, Austria. Regulation, Affordability and Political Will: What it Takes to Tackle Childhood Obesity in Europe.
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The discussions held during the policy workshops and the work of the Specialist Policy Panel throughout the project will serve as the basis for the Obelisk Policy Guidelines, a final set of evidence-based policy recommendations. The guidelines will then be disseminated among relevant stakeholders and policymakers as the final stage of Obelisk’s policy outreach programme.
