Author: Maria Souza
YoPA 2023 highlights
February 1st, 2024
In January 2024, the YoPA consortium dedicated some time to reflect on the project’s progress, achievements in the first year, and priorities for the upcoming months.
This is the YoPA’s 2023 timeline, which includes all the executed deliverables from Work Packages 1, 2 and 5, as well as other important milestones for the project:
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A timeline from January to December 2023, highlighting each month and quarter.
January – Start of the YoPA project.
March and April – Deliverable 1.1 (Project Handbook), Deliverable 5.1 (Project Identity), Deliverable 6.1 (H Requirement No1), Deliverable 6.2 (POPD Requirement No2), Deliverable 6.3 (POPD Requirement No3) and YoPA website launch.
July – Deliverable 1.2 (Data Management plan) and Deliverable 5.2 (Plan for Dissemination, Impact and Communication)
September and October – Deliverable 2.1 (Co-creation protocol), YoPA video launch and First consortium meeting in Amsterdam
November – First meeting with the Scientific Advisory Board
December – Deliverable 2.3 (Submission package for co-creation), Deliverable 2.4 (Recruitment report for co-creation), YoPA Protocol paper submitted, Protocol registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and Start of the co-creation meetings in Denmark
Other:
From March to December – 8 Scientific Partner Meetings
From April to December – 15 meetings on writing co-creation protocol and facilitating co-creation meetings with adolescents
From August to December – 5 Communication team meetings
Co-creation sessions with teenagers begin in Aalborg, Denmark
January 9th, 2024
The YoPA project intervention has began in Aalborg, Denmark, in December 2023, as planned in the project’s timeline.
Engaging in co-creation structured sessions, teenagers from two local youth centres are collaborating with facilitator Marie Louise to undertake an in-depth mapping of their local community system.
The photovoice exercise employed green frames 🟢 to represent spaces conducive to physical activity and red frames 🔴 to portray areas in need of enhancement.
This method provides participants with valuable insights, enabling them to identify strategic locations within their environment for increased physical activity engagement.
The co-creation sessions in Aalborg are planned to take place regularly until the end of June 2024.
The youth centres participating in the YoPA project are called Fritidscenter Gl Kongvej and Fritidscenter Bakken.
In Denmark, the University of Southern Denmark and the City of Aalborg are part of the YoPA consortium.
YoPA Newsletter launch
November 28th, 2023
The YoPA project released its first quarterly newsletter, with the highlights and updates from July to September 2023.
Explore the full newsletter by clicking on the image below and subscribe to receive the next ones here.
YoPA Team meets the Scientific Advisory Board
November 2nd, 2023
On October 26th, YoPA’s team hosted and presented the project’s Scientific Advisory Board during the Scientific Partners meeting.
The board comprises accomplished experts in various health-related fields, serving as a guiding compass in matters of research best practices, ethics, and any other research-related inquiries. YoPA’s board proudly consists of five distinguished researchers from across the globe, as follows:
Deepti Adlaka, from the Technical University of Delft, in The Netherlands
Olga Sarmiento, from Andes University, in Colombia
Paul Estabrooks, from the University of Utah, in the United States of America
Shifala Goenka, from the Public Health Foundation of India
Tollulah Oni, from the University of Cambridge, in England
In the meeting, the YoPA team presented a brief of the project’s approach, methodologies and evaluation strategies, answered to some questions and received important insights from the board members who were present in this first meeting.
The YoPA team is grateful for the board’s commitment and availability in taking part of this project and look forward to a fruitful collaboration ahead!