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IMPAQT
 

Workshop and symposia​

• Advancing knowledge on equitable physical activity policy implementation: Learnings from the IMPAQT consortium HEPA, September 2025.
• Physical activity policy implementation: Measures, methods and means of evaluation. HEPA, September 2025.
• Physical activity policy implementation: Measures, methods and means of evaluation. PAfH Summer School, September 2025.
• Improving Physical Activity policies in urban design to enhance their impact on physical activity and health equity. ISBNPA, July 2025.
• Addressing Equity in Traffic Safety: Application of the PA-EPI Methodology within the IMPAQT Framework. Road safety Conference, February 2025
• The PA-EPI: Physical Activity Environment Policy Index. HEPA, August 2024.​�ċ�ċ

Talks at scientific conferences

• Monitoring Physical Activity Policies at the Subnational Level: A Review of Existing Tools. HEPA, August 2025
• How to reduce social inequities in the field of physical activity policy?   Co-producing policy recommendations in 6 EU countries. ICPP, July 2025
• Reducing inequalities through physical activity policies. SPARC, December 2024
• An overview of the Policy Evaluation Network and the IMPAQT health equity study:  Their approach to addressing physical activity policy challenges for sustainability and health. ISPAH, October 2024.
• A scoping review examining the evidence for enhancing equity in physical activity policy. ISPAH, October 2024.
• Expanding your network for conducting the PA-EPI. How do you go about setting up your own PA-EPI Council or engaging with policymakers?   ISPAH, October 2024.
• IMproving Physical Activity policies and their impact on health eQuiTy: An overview of the IMPAQT project. ISPAH, October 2024.
• Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of PA environments: Introducing the Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-EPI). ​ ISPAH, October 2024.
• The PA-EPI results from Ireland and the Netherlands. ISPAH, October 2024.
• A Comparative Analysis of Academic and Policymaker Priorities in Physical Activity Policy and its infrastructure support.  HEPA, August 2024.
• Policy Tools and Actions for Physical Activity. I-PARC, August 2024.

Poster at scientific conferences

• Equity and physical activity: An intersectoral assessment of policy implementation in 6 EU countries. EPH, November 2025.
• Collaborative policy implementation assessment; why the PA-EPI process should be used in Scotland. SPARC, December 2024

Pre-IMPAQT

Workshop and symposia

2021

• Webinar: Implementation of direct fruit and vegetables provision interventions in schools, webinar led by Biljana Meshkovska at the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, 4 May 2021.

2020

• Webinar: Measuring policy actions for healthy and sustainable food and physical activity environments - A SIG Policies and Environment webinar, webinar led by PEN and the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA), 22 September 2020. Find more information and the recording of this webinar .
• Virtual joint workshop: Disrupting childhood obesity trends across Europe; a joint symposium of CO-CREATE, STOP and PEN 
      - CO-CREATE: CO-CREATE: Cocreating policies with youth in Europe (Professor Knut-Inge Klepp)
      - STOP: Strengthening evidence and engaging different actors (Professor Franco Sassi)
      - PEN: Monitoring and accountability of public policies across Europe (Professor Wolfgang Ahrens)
  at the European and International Congress on Obesity (ECO-ICO 2020), 2 Septemer 2020.
• Virtual joint symposium „Addressing health policy and research at the STOP/ CO-CREATE/ PEN Symposium”, 30^th June 2020. A virtual joint symposium of the STOP, CO-CREATE and PEN was organized with key members of the three consortia as an opportunity for the projects to collaborate and share updates on progress to date. Quotes from the coordinators of the STOP, CO-CREATE and PEN project, as well as the link to the recorded symposium on 30th June 2020 can be found at the website of the STOP project .
• Identifying the 'best buys' in public policy for promotion of physical activity and healthy nutrition; Can we do it? If yes, How? Why? and What we can learn from each other.  at the 19th Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (SBNPA) - Advancing Behaviour Change Science, Auckland, New Zealand, 17-20 June 2020.
• What can we learn from food and physical activity policy evaluation to maximise impact on health and sustainability: The intersection between research and practice. Symposium at the 19th Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) - Advancing Behaviour Change Science. Auckland, New Zealand, 17-20 June 2020.

2019

• Policy impact indicators. Expert workshop at the Robert Koch Institute. Berlin, Germany, 26-27 September 2019.
• Taxation policies regarding sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and other junk foods. Learning from experience. Workshop at the . Debrecen, Hungary, 25 April 2019.
• Health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) policy audit tool (PAT) Training. HEPA-PAT training workshop at the Kick-off Meeting of the PEN project. Bremen, Germany, 5 February 2019.
• Overview of Food Environment Policy Index (Food EPI) Processes. Food-EPI training workshop at the Kick-off Meeting of the PEN project. Bremen, Germany, 4 February 2019.
• European Food Environment Policy Index (Food EPI) Roadmap development. Food-EPI training workshop at the Kick-off Meeting of the PEN project. Bremen, Germany, 4 February 2019.
• Workshop for stakeholders consultation. Stuttgart, Germany, 4 February 2019.

2018

• Health Policies, Theories and Implementation Research. Pre-PEN Workshop at the, Warsaw, Poland, 21-23 September 2018.

Talks at scientific conferences

2021

• Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the EU School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme: cross country study using CFIR. Speaker: Biljana Meshkovska. Talk at the Conference of the Norwegian Implementation Network (NIMP), 19 November 2021.
• Implementation processes of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons learned from a scoping review. Speaker: Sarah Forberger. Talk at the ISBNPA XChange Initiative 2021 - Selected for the live Q&A sessions, virtual meeting, June 2021.
• Implementation of direct fruit and vegetables provision interventions in schools. Speaker: Biljana Meshkovska. Talk at the PhD course: Policy implementation as a strategy to improve schools and early childcare. University of Stavanger, May 2021
• Impact Evaluation of EU-School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme: a system dynamics approach. Speaker: Mahshid Zolfaghari. Talk at the System Dynamics Club Collective Learning Meeting, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, online presentation, March 2021.

2020

• A study on implementation of food-related policies in Poland using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index. Speaker: Piotr Romaniuk. Talk at PEN session at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Benchmarking the implementation of recommended food environment policies in Norway using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI). Speaker: Liv Elin Torheim. Talk at PEN session at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Has the Netherlands created a healthy food environment for its citizens? Application of the Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI). Speaker: Sanne Djojosoeparto. Talk at PEN Session at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Evaluating food-related policies in Germany using the Food Environment Policy Index. Speaker: Karin Geffert. Talk at PEN session at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Has the European Union created a healthy food environment for its citizens? Application of the Food Environment Policy Index (EPI). Speaker: Maartje Poelman. Talkt at PEN session at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Political framework for nutrition in Germany: A political field analysis with an experts survey. Speaker: Peter von Philipsborn. Talk at the 36th Annual Meeting of the German Association for the Study of Obesity, Leipzig, Germany, June 2020.
• Public acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverages tax and its associated factors in the Netherlands. Speaker: Michelle Eykelenboom. Talk at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Key indicators for harmonized European population health surveillance: an iterative approach. Speaker: Stefanie Do. Talk at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Health surveillance indicators: what is available in European data sets for policy evaluation?. Speaker: Isobel Stanley. Talk at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and actio, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Systematic review examining the evidence for impact of school policies on physical activity. Speaker: Catherine Woods. Talk at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Evaluation of policy measures to promote a healthy diet and physical activity – The PEN Project. Speaker: Wolfgang Ahrens. Talk at the 16th World Congress on Public Health /EUPHA 2020 - Public health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action, virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Has the European Union created a healthy food environment for its citizens? Application of the Food Environment Policy Index (EPI). Speaker: Sanne Djojosoeparto. Talk at theEuropean and International Congress on Obesity, Dublin, Ireland, September 2020.
• A Physical Activity Policy Audit of four PEN countries: What can we learn for sustainability and health promotion? Measuring policy actions for healthy and sustainable food and physical activity environments. Speaker: Sven messing. At the SIG Policies and Environment webinar,PEN/ISBNPA, 22 September 2020.
• Building a systems map of determinants of dietary intake in low-income groups as a basis for health equity policies. Speaker: Alexia Sawyer. Talk at the Joint STOP/ CO-CREATE/ PEN symposium, virtual Conference, June 2020.
• Policy impact evaluation: Simulation modeling and quasi-experimental methods. Spaeker: Michael Laxy. Talk at the Joint STOP/ CO-CREATE/ PEN symposium, virtual Conference, June 2020.
• Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments in Europe: Progress on Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) in Europe. Speaker: Janas Harrington. Talk at the Joint STOP/ CO-CREATE/ PEN symposium, virtual Conference, June 2020.
• Talk based on published article” Public acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in the Netherlands”. Speaker: Michelle Eykelenboom. Invited talk at the National Sugar Challenge 2020, Online, Netherlands, June 2020.
• Politische Rahmenbedingungen für Ernährung in Deutschland: Eine Politikfeldanalyse mit Expertenbefragung. Speaker: Peter von Philipsborn. Talk at the 36th Annual Meeting of the German Association for the Study of Obesity, Leipzig, Germany, June 2020.
• The Food–Environment Policy Index (EPI): monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments in Ireland. Speaker: Janas Harrington. Talk at the 24th Annual Health Promotion Conference, virtual Conference, Ireland, June 2020.
• Building a literature-based systems map of determinants of dietary intake in low-income groups as a basis for health equity policies. Speaker: Alexia Sawyer. Talk at the ISBNPA Xchange, virtual meeting, June 2020.
• The Work of the WHO CC for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU. Speaker: Peter Gelius. Invited talk at the Kick-off meeting of the EU-sponsored LOGOPAS project. Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 4-5 February 2020.
• The Food – Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments in Ireland: Process Outline. Speaker: Janas Harrington. Talk at the SPHeRE Conference, Dublin, February 2020.

2019

• Best food policy practices.  Road to Framework Convention on Food Systems: tackling global syndemic with food policy. Speaker: Piotr Romaniuk. Invited talk at the pre-conference workshop of the . Marseille, France, 20-23 November 2019.
• An emerging trend to tax sugar sweetened beverages and other junk foods: overregulation or an effective way to modify dietary behaviours? Speaker: Piotr Romaniuk. . Marseille, France, 20-23 November 2019.
• Identifying best practices in junk food taxation and other food policies. Selected examples and their assessment. Speaker: Piotr Romaniuk. . Marseille, France, 20-23 November 2019.
• Public policies addressing health-related behaviours in Europe. Speaker: Wolfgang Ahrens. Expert workshop to identify indicators important for monitoring and surveillance in young and adult populations. Berlin, Germany, 26-27 September 2019.
• The Physical activity and sedentary behaviour side of PEN. Speaker: Catherine Woods. Invited talk at the . Odense, Denmark, 28-30 August 2019.
• Political and social acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverages tax: a mixed-method systematic review and meta-analysis. Speaker: Michelle Eykelenboom. . Prague, Czech Republic, 7 June 2019.
• The Work of the WHO CC for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU. Speakers: Peter Gelius, Karim Abu-Omar. Invited talk at the meeting of the Workgroup “Physical activity in everyday life” of the German Ministry of Health. Berlin, Germany, 7 May 2019.
• Public policies addressing health-related behaviours in Europe
  Policy mapping and EPI development. Speaker: Janas Harrington. Invited talk at the, Belgium, 20 February 2019.

2018

• Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). Speaker: Catherine Woods. Invited talk at the . London, United Kingdom, 15-17 Oktober 2018.
• Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). Speaker: Catherine Woods. Invited talk at the working group of the European network for the promotion of health-enhancning physical activity (HEPA). Video conference, 11 June 2018.
• Effectiveness of existing policies for lifestyle interventions - Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). Speaker: Lucia Reisch. Internal event at the Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 March 2018.
• Effectiveness of existing policies for lifestyle interventions - Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). Speaker: Antje Hebestreit & Sarah Forberger. Internal event ("Jour-Fixe") at BIPS, Bremen, Germany, 5 February 2018.

Poster at scientific conferences

2021

• A pan-European approach to assess the impact of policies on health behavior. Author: Stefanie DO. Digital Public Health organized by the Early Career Researcher Academy Bremen and Digital Health Malta, online presentation, October 2021.
• Impact Evaluation of EU-School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme: a system dynamics approach. Author: Mahshid Zolfaghari. System Dynamics Conference, online presentation, July 2021.
• Barriers and facilitators to implementation of direct provision fruit and vegetables interventions: a systematic review using the consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR). Author: Biljana Meshkovska. European Implementation Event, 27-28 May 2021. 

2020

• Policy implementation evaluation: a stakeholder-centred approach. Author: Daniel Scheller. , virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• A qualitative study of stakeholder views on the effects of a sugar-sweetened beverages tax on the budgets, dietary intake, and health of lower and higher socioeconomic groups in the Netherlands. Author: Carlijn Kamphuis. , virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Developing a literature-based systems map of determinants of dietary intake in low-income groups. Author: Alexia Sawyer. , virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Talk Sub-national structures matter when evaluating physical activity promotion: Lessons from Germany. Author: Sarah Forberger. , virtual meeting, Rome, Italy, October 2020.
• Policy Evaluation: a comprehensive European approach by the JPI HDHL Network PEN. Author: Antje Hebestreit. , Dublin, Ireland, 17-20 May 2020.
• Evaluation and prioritization on food environment policies in Norway using th Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI). Author: Liv Elin Torheim. , Helsinki, Finland, 8-12 June 2020.

2019

• European Project Policy Evaluation Network (PEN): geriatric point of view. Roma Krzymińska-Siemaszko et al. . Krakow, Poland, 25-27 September 2019.
   
• Effectiveness of Existing Policies for Lifestyle Interventions – Policy Evaluation Network – WP4 Implementation. Daniel Scheller et al. . Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20-21 September 2019.
• Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) - Fostering Sustainable and Active Transport in Copenhagen. Noah Peters & Lucia Reisch.  organised by Frederiksberg Municipality and hosted by Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-14 September 2019.
• Siec ewaluacji polityk – projekt europejski; zadania Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Poznaniu (European Project Policy Evaluation Network: from the perspective of Poznan University of Medical Sciences). Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis et al. National conference for dieticians. Poznan, Poland, 2 March 2019.

2017

• Effectiveness of existing policies for lifestyle interventions - Policy Evaluation Network (PEN). Speaker: Wolfgang Ahrens. Invited talk at the . Brussels, Belgium, 1 December 2017.