Intervention area

Competence development

A wide range of professionals and volunteers play a role in children's health and well-being - either directly or indirectly. Thus, we will work to ensure that they have the knowledge and tools they need to do more of what works to prevent high weight gain and an increasing failure to thrive.

This can be done by translating learning and new knowledge into new evidence-based educational programmes and activities or courses, or through actual collaboration with educational institutions. In this way, we can help develop the competences of the professionals who meet children and adolescents on a daily basis and help create lasting change.

With the right training, the latest tools and knowledge of the impact on children, some professionals may also realise in new ways how important a role they can play for children.

Competence development will often be part of an implementation effort where new knowledge has been gained or practices have been reassessed. However, it can also build on existing knowledge or further develop the efforts of others.

Related projects

Grant

Children and Young People’s Experience of Body and Well-being

How do children and young people experience body size, health, and well-being in their everyday lives and in their encounters with institutions, family, school, and healthcare services? The project gives a voice to children and young people’s own experiences and shows how body, norms, and well-being are shaped within social and cultural communities.

Grant recepient
VIVE, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus og Nationalt Center for Overvægt
Budget
3.999.466 kroner
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