Program duration: 01/01/2011 - 01/07/2012
Crossing Bridges -Developing methodologies and building capacity to advance the implementation of Health in All Policies and achieve health equity
European Commission: Public Health Program 2008-2013 
Prolepsis was an associate partner in a European project titled “Crossing Bridges -Developing methodologies and building capacity to advance the implementation of Health in All Policies and achieve health equity”.
The program was launched on the 1st of January 2011 and lasted for 18 months. It was implemented within the framework of the Health Program 2008-2013 of DG SANCO. The project coordinator was “Eurohealthnet” which is based in Brussels. There were 14 other associate partners involved in the project.
The general objective of this project was to improve European citizen’s health and alleviate health inequalities through the active cooperation of different policy sectors, other than health, on a national, regional and local level.
Improving societal health and well being, and reducing levels of health inequity cannot be achieved by the health system alone. All policy sectors that affect health, for example the employment, financial and environmental sectors, must actively contribute to improving health or consider and optimize their health impacts. Creating synergies between different sectors requires skills and specific knowledge thus it is necessary to adopt specific methodologies that will facilitate cooperation. Crossing Bridges is of particular importance as it will develop and test methodologies which will enable cooperation between sectors and build capacity between different policy makers as a means of improving quality of life and health among citizens.
More specifically Crossing Bridges:
– Analyzed existing practice
– Developed methodologies to implement HiAP, based on the analysis of evidence and good practice in the three focus areas, using the Delphi method
– Assessed capacity building needs
– Developed the capacity of partners to take a leadership role in health, by organisational development, staff training, resources and partnership development as well as supporting local and regional level authorities.
Contact information
Pania Karnaki, MA, Project coordinator: p.karnaki@prolepsis.gr
Services: Education
Project partners
Project coordinator:
Eurohealthnet Belgium
Associated partners:
Fonds Gesundes Γsterreich (FGΓ), Austria
Vlaams Instituut voor Gezondheidspromotie en Ziektepreventie vzw (ViGeZ), Belgium
Slovenska Zoravotnicka Univerzita (SZU)
Bundeszentrale fΓΌr gesundheitliche AufklΓ€rung (BZgA)
National Institute for Health Development (OEFI), Hungary
Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Ireland
Veneto Region, Italy
The Netherlands Institute for Health promotion (NIGZ), NetherlandsΒ
National Institute of Public Health National Institute of Hygiene (NIZP-PZH), Poland
National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia (NIPH-RS), Slovenia
Public Health Wales (PHW), Wales
National Health System Shefton , UK
Relative links
http://eurohealthnet.eu/research/crossing-bridges