HL4EU Community Building Conference Advancing Healthier Lifestyles Across Europe
On November 5, 2024, the Healthy Lifestyles for Europe (HL4EU) Community Building Conference – Advancing Healthier Lifestyles Across Europe took place in Brussels.
The successful conference brought together policymakers, industry leaders, and project partners to promote cross-sector collaboration for healthier lifestyles across Europe, underscoring the project’s vision, mission, and objectives. The HL4EU project, of which ELPA is a partner, spans 30 months, during which a consortium of leading national and European organisations from the fitness, physical activity, outdoors, patient advocacy, health, and mobility sectors is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of cross-sectoral healthy lifestyle promotion. The project also addresses how to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and reduce health inequalities across Europe. The event provided not only an opportunity to discuss the potential of physical activity in promoting healthy lifestyles and the need for cross-sectoral collaboration to shift from a curative to a preventive public health model but also to engage in dialogue on the European Commission’s Healthy Lifestyle 4 All campaign and the recent WHO report on physical inactivity among adults, which highlights that 31% of adults do not meet recommended levels of physical activity. The report also provides key recommendations to support Member States’ efforts in this area. ELPA invites all committed stakeholders to endorse the joint Call for Action on “Enabling Cross-Sectoral Approaches for Healthy Lifestyles in Europe” as part of the HL4EU Erasmus+ project!