In WHO own words " The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours among adolescents ." We salute this important document with enthusiasm, and invite everyone to give it the visibility and publicity its aims deserve. If you haven't yet, download from here It is however slightly discouraging to see that, yet again, exercise and physical activity promotion are basically ignored (except for a few episodic references to preexisting guidelines)... this, despite the ever growing evidences of the bidirectional relationships existing between exercise and mental health... we need to do better and lobby for recognition in International guidelines and policy making. To get started, here is some recommended reading material: Ahead of the gam

  EU has an open call to join the Expert Group that will work with the DG Education and Culture to shape and implement the policies for gender equality in sport, as part of the EU Work Plan for Sport . We are going to submit our application to join this important work group, and would like to invite you to start sharing with us your suggestions and relevant reporting (near misses or accident documentation, academic publications on the subject, project proposals, ...) so that we can be as representative as possible, should we be accepted to membership. Do not hesitate to be heard, send as an email to eusocatt[AT]gmail[DOT]com with subject "E01564 - my contribution"! We are looking forward to working with you ;)

  Dear friends, dear supporters for quite some time now we have remained in some form of a dormant state, only sharing with you publications updates, and not much else... but the time has come to give again new impulse to our initial commitment, with a renewed team, and an updated strategy! Opening this blog, and the new website  are the baby steps necessary to prepare our stage. However, fret not, for we will not forget our shared venues, and will remain in touch with you also on Twitter and Facebook  as you have become accustomed in the last few years. Soon we will start sharing with you updates and invite you to join us in action, after transparently discussing plans and expectations. For now though, we just want to renew our thanks for having remained with us through the darkest. Ad maiora!