A comprehensive series of resources and outputs presenting the evaluated results of Shape Up. It assembles evaluation output analysis, publications, and evaluation tools:

“Shape Up: a School Community Approach to Influencing the Determinants of Childhood Overweight and Obesity, Lessons Learnt” is a report written by the Danish School of Education (researchers Assoc Prof. Venka Simovska and Prof Bjarne Bruun Jensen).The purpose of this report is to provide a synthesis of the project overall evaluation documentation, with a view to systematically review and discuss lessons learnt, and to suggest recommendations concerning future practice and policy in the area of preventing childhood overweight and obesity.

This book is a celebration of our rich cultural diversity and ongoing common objective: Children and adults taking action together for a healthy and balanced growing up.

Children and adults in 22 Member States are taking actions together to cope with child obesity. Shape Up is a never-ending story. It is and will be a constant source of inspiration for all children and adults willing to act at the community level in school and from school. Shape Up supported some of the most experienced experts in the field of health education, urban planning, community building and new technology networking, by innovative methods and intensive training and capacity building schemes. Above all, Shape Up is about real children bringing about real changes in their communities. And now, let’s open the SHAPE UP book… and see how to improve the ability of children and young people to carry out health-promoting actions now and in the future.

This toolkit has been produced to assist local coordinators and other local actors in building portfolios for the local evaluation of the Shape Up project. The resources contained within this toolkit are designed to allow local co-ordinators and local actors to gather data on the perceptions of Shape Up participants and the outcomes of project activities.

This document presents the comments of Pierre Antoine Ullmo, European Coordinator of Shape Up, on the Shape Up evaluation framework. It reflects the internal discussions, issued from a participatory approach, on the project’s evaluation.