The BETTER4U project is part of the newly formed cluster of EU funded projects working on obesity-related topics, called OBEClust.
Comprised of 9 project, the overall aim of OBEClust is to constitute a European multidisciplinary network of experts in the field of obesity, aimed to jointly strengthen and align project methods, outputs and impact of obesity prevention projects currently funded by the European Commission.
The two main objectives of the cluster are:
- To form a peer support group to discuss common methodological strategies and expertises.
- To establish common methodological and/or policy guidelines to tackle societal, scientific and political issues related to obesity in Europe.
The other 8 projects included are outlined in the table below:
| Project | Brief Description | Website |
| OBCT | OBCT provides health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the public with knowledge, maps and tools to support sustainable prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on low SEP communities. | www.obct.nl/ |
| SHIFT2HEALTH | This project uses a multidisciplinary approach and aims to identify mechanisms and environmental and lifestyle factors leading to obesity in shift workers and to develop and evaluate products and strategies with consideration of the behavioural and relational level to support healthy eating patterns. | www.shift2health.eu/ |
| Obelisk | Obelisk is a five-year research project, and our ambition is to prevent childhood obesity and contribute to enhancing the health, quality of life, and life span of people of all ages living in Europe. | www.obeliskproject.eu/ |
| CoDiet | CoDiet is an international research project that aims to combat diet-related diseases through innovative diet-monitoring technologies and personalised nutrition. Launched in 2023, the CoDiet project will trial new diet-monitoring technologies to improve our understanding of the relationship between the food we eat and common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity. | www.codiet.eu/ |
| BIO-STREAMS | BIO-STREAMS mobilises a diverse group of partners with clear in-project duties to design, create and deploy the first EU Childhood/Adolescence Obesity Biobank (EU data space – BIO-STREAMS Biobank) acting as an EU-wide data-sharing centre for research and innovation, hosting real & synthetic data and ensuring: | https://bio-streams.eu/ |
| HealthyW8 | HealthyW8 aims to prevent obesity by taking a multi-disciplinary portfolio approach that combines interventions focusing on diet, physical activity, and psycho-emotional aspects. The project will consider obesity as a multifactorial phenomenon and account for individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy levels. HealthyW8 will focus on pivotal situations in the life-trajectory of individuals, where the risk of progressing to overweight and obesity is high, such as primary schoolchildren, young adults, and the elderly. | www.healthyw8.eu |
| eprObes | The Global Aim of eprObes (for early prevention of Obesity) is to identify factors (risk and protective) and mechanisms thereof, related with excessive weight gain, in critical maturational periods, including peri- conceptional / gestational, early child development and puberty / adolescence, for setting tailored preventive measures to avoid obesity and its comorbidities in both sexes. | https://eprobes.eu/ |
| PAS-GRAS | The PAS-GRAS project addresses the main determinants that contribute to the transgenerational risk of obesity in the most vulnerable populations, including children in the prepubertal stage, adolescents and young adults, in order to reverse and prevent obesity and avoid the emergence of related comorbidities. | https://eurecat.org/en/portfolio-items/pas-gras/ |
