| Summary: |
Nutriscience as well as other European projects have aimed to develop successful strategies to promote nutrition and food literacy at the kindergarten level. However, the results of those projects show that there are many opportunities as well as challenges in changing children's dietary behaviors through kindergartens and thus summarizing this knowledge across Europe might be useful for future use of this strategy in policies and research.
With the bilateral fund, we aim at promoting a wide discussion on the topic of implementation of such projects and retrieve the necessary conclusions of best practices and successful implementation methods in order to put to practice the accumulated knowledge acquired through out these projects.
Specifically, we aim at organizing a two day workshop for coordinators and senior researchers in European projects about kindergarten interventions on nutrition with the following agenda:
- Share common results, outputs and gaps
- Determine and develop best practices
- Provide recommendations for policy makers
Five questions will be discussed during the workshop:
- How do I reach the targeted population with the intervention? Reach
- How do I know my intervention is effective? Efficacy
- How do I develop organizational support to deliver my intervention? Adoption
- How do I ensure the intervention is delivered properly? Implementation
- How do I incorporate the intervention so that it is delivered over the long term? Maintenance
This evaluation system will allow participants in this two day workshop to objectively analyze projects efficiency in terms of reaching the target, adoption by potential intervention agents, implementation consistency during delivery and the maintenance of the intervention's effects over time. |