Social sciences and humanities contribution to tackle the obesity epidemic: challenges & potentials in obesity research towards Horizon 2020: concluding report

TY - RPRT

T1 - Social sciences and humanities contribution to tackle the obesity epidemic

T2 - Workshop on Social Sciences and Humanities contributions to tackle the Obesity Epidemic

AU - Holm, Lotte

AU - Sandøe, Peter

AU - Nielsen, Morten Ebbe Juul

AU - Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.

AU - Børker Nielsen, Peter

AU - Meidahl Petersen, Anne

AU - Verdich, Camilla

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - To address the obesity epidemic, European researchers need to come together to find the best solutions and use their combined knowledge to provide the most innovative research ideas. By gathering more than 50 researchers and stakeholders from around Europe, we took an important step towards establishing strong networks and building bridges between the natural sciences and social sciences and humanities that can address obesity as a complex societal challenge and help minimise the gap between research, markets, and citizens. The objectives of the workshop were to create a cross‐European forum for identifying, describing, and discussing future potential in obesity research, to establish new and to nurture existing networks and collaborations between researchers across the social sciences and humanities and the natural sciences with an interest in obesity research, and thereby to mobilise significant European research capacities and potential in preparing for Horizon 2020.This report, which summarises the workshop, should be seen as a platform illustrating the potential in SSH obesity research for true transdisciplinary efforts to address obesity as a complex phenomenon.

AB - To address the obesity epidemic, European researchers need to come together to find the best solutions and use their combined knowledge to provide the most innovative research ideas. By gathering more than 50 researchers and stakeholders from around Europe, we took an important step towards establishing strong networks and building bridges between the natural sciences and social sciences and humanities that can address obesity as a complex societal challenge and help minimise the gap between research, markets, and citizens. The objectives of the workshop were to create a cross‐European forum for identifying, describing, and discussing future potential in obesity research, to establish new and to nurture existing networks and collaborations between researchers across the social sciences and humanities and the natural sciences with an interest in obesity research, and thereby to mobilise significant European research capacities and potential in preparing for Horizon 2020.This report, which summarises the workshop, should be seen as a platform illustrating the potential in SSH obesity research for true transdisciplinary efforts to address obesity as a complex phenomenon.

M3 - Report

BT - Social sciences and humanities contribution to tackle the obesity epidemic

PB - University of Copenhagen

CY - København

Y2 - 9 January 2013 through 10 January 2013

ER -