Project description
An innovative cancer prevention initiative
In Europe, combating cancer’s early roots, often initiated during adolescence, is a pressing challenge. The EU-funded SUNRISE project aims to tackle this by introducing a digitally enhanced life-skills programme. Tailored to diverse socio-economic, cultural, and environmental backgrounds, SUNRISE integrates evidence-based smoking prevention tools with innovative approaches like peer social media campaigns, advertising literacy training, educational games, and social robots. Developed through schools-as-living-labs collaboration with educators, adolescents, parents, and experts, the programme will be implemented across 154 schools and 7 500 students in eight countries. SUNRISE strives to redefine cancer prevention for adolescents through effective strategies and sustainable solutions.
Objective
Primary prevention of cancer through behaviour changes in adolescence – a critical period in which many risk behaviours are initiated –, is a huge health and societal challenge in Europe. In alignment with this need, SUNRISE will co-create, implement and evaluate an innovative digitally-enhanced life-skills programme for primary prevention of cancer through sustainable health behaviour change in adolescents, tailored to their socio-economic, cultural and environmental diversities. SUNRISE will combine an established, evidence-based digital solution for smoking prevention, with novel intervention approaches such as peer social media campaigns, advertising literacy training, educational games, and social robot platforms, to take cancer prevention approaches for adolescents in the EU to the next level. The digitally-enhanced programme and its components will be developed through co-creation with schools-as-living-labs methods involving multiple societal actors such as educators, adolescents, parents, public health experts, and policy-makers. The programme will be implemented and evaluated at large scale across 154 schools and 7500 students in urban and rural regions of 8 European countries - Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium, Romania -, including socially disadvantaged groups such as migrants and ethnic minorities. The effectiveness of both methods for achieving long-term health behaviour change, as well as the implementation strategy for solution adoption and multi-country sustainability, will be evaluated.
This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on “Prevention & early detection (behavioural change).
Fields of science
- social scienceseducational sciencesdidactics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- social sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Greece
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Participants (16)
71004 Heraklion
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1687 Nicosia
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9000 Gent
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400015 Cluj Napoca
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2000 Maribor
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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11415 TALLIN
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
08018 Barcelona
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1500 618 Lisbon
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
46010 Valencia
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00187 ROMA
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01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
48903 Barakaldo Bizkaia
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15351 PALLINI
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1020 Bruxelles / Brussel
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400372 Cluj Napoca
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Partners (2)
8031 ZURICH
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2006 Sydney
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