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Health4EUKids – WP4: capacity building programme - Module 2

 

Module 2 – Grünau Moves: a Best Practice to promote health and prevent obesity in children

This module presents the best practice Grünau Moves, highlighting its contribution to the design and implementation of effective interventions for health promotion and the prevention of childhood obesity, following a public health approach. Through the narrative of activities and actions developed by the participants of the JA, the key stakeholders to be involved at different implementation levels (national, regional, and local) are described, along with the obstacles, enabling factors, and recommendations for local implementation. The module will emphasize the essential elements for ensuring the transferability and sustainability of the intervention.

 

This module includes 16 learning units distributed across 6 sessions.

 

Session 2.1 – Grünau Moves: general overview

Unità 2.1.1 – The original Best Practice

Unità 2.1.2 – How Grünau Moves has been transferred in Health4EUkids

  • Video presentation
  • PDF presentation (pdf 1,5 Mb)
  • Dossier in Italian
  • Dossier in English

Session 2.2 – Grünau Moves: planning the intervention

Unità 2.2.1 – Selection of the intervention area: a contribution from Portugal

Unità 2.2.2a – Building Community partnership for health at Polígono Sur (Sevilla, Spain)

Unità 2.2.2b – Estabilish the Core Group and Health Network from scratch: challenges and opportunities

Session 2.3 – Grünau Moves: conducting the needs assessment and health assets map

Unità 2.3.1a – Partecipatory tools and methods – Group Model Building e Photovoice

Unità 2.3.1b – Partecipatory tools and methods – Living Healthy Tool

Session 2.4 – Grünau Moves: co-design a local action program

Unità 2.4.1a – A Hungarian case study

Unità 2.4.1b – Local action programs: case studies in Valencia

Session 2.5 - Grünau Moves: examples of local actions 

Unità 2.5.1 – Stakeholder engagement & Community capacity building

Unità 2.5.2a – Programmatic intervention in Greece based on needs assessment and local determinants

Unità 2.5.2b – Programmatic intervention in Malta 

Unità 2.5.2c – Programmatic intervention: school-based action in the Balearic Island

Unità 2.5.3a – Structural intervention in Galicia

Unità 2.5.3b – Structural interventions: a School Garden experience

Session 2.6 - Grünau Moves: sustainability 

Unità 2.6.1 – Sustainability of the intervention: Basque Country region experience

 

Useful resources

 

Pubblication date: 24 july 2025

Text by: Annachiara Di Nolfi, Vittorio Palermo, Paola Scardetta, Angela Giusti, Chiara Cattaneo, Vincenza di Stefano, Francesca Zambri - Centro Nazionale per la Prevenzione delle malattie e la Promozione della Salute (CNAPPS), ISS