Obesity Cluster

BETTER4U is a Horizon Europe project (2023–2027) that develops innovative, multidisciplinary strategies to address and reverse rising obesity rates. It combines research, interventions, and stakeholder engagement to promote healthier lifestyles, improve prevention approaches, and support long-term behavioural change across different population groups.

Bio-Streams is a research project addressing childhood obesity through an integrated framework combining biobank data, behavioural insights, and digital technologies. It uses micro-moment analysis and personalised mobile recommendations to better understand risk factors and support early, tailored prevention strategies for children and families.

CoDiet is an international research initiative focused on preventing diet-related diseases through advanced monitoring technologies and personalised nutrition. It develops innovative tools to track dietary habits and deliver tailored recommendations, supporting healthier eating behaviours and contributing to the prevention of obesity and related chronic conditions.

The Global Aim of eprObes (for early prevention of Obesity) is to identify factors (risk and protective) and mechanisms thereof, related with excessive weight gain, in critical maturational periods, including peri- conceptional / gestational, early child development and puberty / adolescence, for setting tailored preventive measures to avoid obesity and its comorbidities in both sexes.

HealthyW8 addresses obesity through a comprehensive, multi-level approach combining diet, physical activity, and psycho-emotional factors. It targets key life stages with increased obesity risk and promotes sustainable lifestyle changes, while supporting evidence-based decision-making across individual, community, and policy levels.

OBCT provides health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the public with knowledge, maps and tools to support sustainable prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on low SEP communities. To achieve this, we quantify the contribution of biological, sociocultural and built environmental risk factors of obesity risks and the interactions in and across various life stages, and translate the resulting knowledge into practical and effective tools for action.

Obelisk is a five-year research project, and our ambition is to prevent childhood obesity and contribute to enhancing the health, quality of life, and life span of people of all ages living in Europe.Treating adults with obesity and overweight is known to be difficult, and it's proven that both prevention and treatment work better in younger age groups. Obelisk has an ambitious research programme to prevent childhood obesity and "cut the roots" of the pandemic.

PAS GRAS investigates how lifestyle, mental health, socioeconomic, and environmental factors interact with biological mechanisms to influence obesity risk. It develops personalised risk assessments and prevention strategies, while promoting health literacy and awareness, particularly among young people and their families.