Project leader: prof. ddr. David Bogataj in dr. Polonca Pangrčič

Project duration: 1. 1. 2024 – 30. 4. 2028

The applicant ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH) Greece, AMEU-ECM project partner

Project financed by the program: Horizon of Europe (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01)

Project description:

The main goal of the project is the prevention of cancer in young people.

The SUNRISE project is thus focused on the prevention of harmful behaviors during adolescence, which lead to cancer and represent a major health and social challenge in Europe. Together, we want to design digital solutions to prevent all forms of carcinogenic consequences, based on new approaches, such as social media campaigns, literacy training and advertising, educational games, social robot platforms and the like. The project will implement and evaluate an innovative digitally enhanced life skills program for the primary prevention of cancer through sustainable health behavior change in adolescents, which will be adapted to socio-economic, cultural and environmental diversity.

The program will be implemented and evaluated on a large scale, namely in 154 schools with 7,500 students in urban and rural regions of 8 European countries - Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, Cyprus, Italy, Belgium, Romania, including socially vulnerable groups such as they are migrants and ethnic minorities.

With the project, we will be able to contribute to and influence the improvement in the health of our youth, while also reducing the state's costs for the treatment of various forms of cancer.