EUREST-RISE · European Regulatory Science on Tobacco - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

European Regulatory Science on Tobacco - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

The project achieved its goals through 4 specific objectives (WPs): 1 – Facilitating smooth implementation of secondments and research exchanges; 2 – Facilitating the exchange of expertise on complex dataset analysis and interpretation at both the product and population level through unique secondary dataset analyses; 4 – Exchanging expertise and gain experience in advocacy, policy integration and communication on tobacco control; 5 – Ensuring dissemination and communication of the results to stakeholders. Actions were taken to implement these objectives through secondments and supporting activities. Specific objective 3 was not achieved, as secondments did not take place within this WP: 3 – Exchanging expertise on the sensory and chemical analysis of tobacco, e-cigarettes and novel product flavour additives. Consequently, no allocation of secondment time or budget was requested under this Work Package. Conclusions per specific objective (WP): 1- The overall administrative and financial management of the project was coordinated during the whole project durationn by providing overall administrative support to individual WPs. ENSP, as the coordinating institution, facilitated the provision of financing to the project participants and provided additional administrative assistance to facilitate the internal administrative processes of secondments (WP1); 2- One of the secondments’ objective was to reinforce the exchange of knowledge on the use of large databases in responding to tobacco control challenges from the product level or the population level perspective, interpreting EU Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) data and European secondary population-based datasets. This was the objective of the majority of secondees, secondments and scientific outputs, which are analyzed in detail in the Periodic Reports (WP2); 3- No secondments conducted (WP3); 4- Researchers received training on communicating research to policymakers/stakeholders, peer scientists, the general public and the media. Specific objectives were to train researchers in advocacy activities and policy integration, facilitate training in peer-to-peer communication and facilitate training on communication to media and the general public, with a focus on high-risk groups. A significant number of secondments took place within this Work Package (WP4); 5- During the M1-M48 period of project implementation, numerous activities were undertaken to disseminate information and the project’s results to the public, regulators and researchers. Specific objectives included to disseminate, as widely as possible, the process, updates and recommendations of the action by producing written material, manuscripts, policy reports, conference abstracts, and digital leaflets/ documentation through multiple avenues of communication and integrating with existing networks of policymakers, professionals, and other stakeholder (WP5).

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