About KNP
The BMBF-funded Cooperation for Sustainable Prevention (KNP) project was launched in June 2009. The overriding goal is to create structures that make the results of prevention research more widely known in practice and politics, and promote their sustainable utilisation. This is intended to strengthen the roots of prevention in healthcare and other areas of society.
In this respect, KNP helps to
- Further expand the inter-project cooperation and communication structure in order to promote the exchange between key players from science, practice and steering bodies,
- Gather findings relating to effective prevention and health promotion,
- Prepare the central statements and results of prevention research in an appropriate fashion for practitioners and decision-makers, and support their dissemination,
- Review and further develop methods and tools.
The following measures were initiated by the cooperation project in order to implement the tasks indicated above:
- Holding of annual strategy meetings
- Establishment of subject-related, inter-project Working Groups
- Methods
- Practice Transfer
- Policy Transfer
- Social Inequality
- Participatory Health Research
- Prevention and Rehabilitation
- Holding of transfer conferences for users and multipliers
- Organisation of scientific conferences with international participation
- Information of the public through an Internet portal with project database
- Publication of a Newsletter
- Brief information of decision-makers on results of the funding programme
- Joint elaboration of publications on the principles of prevention research
The cooperation project very much relies on the collaboration of the participating projects. To be able to optimally respond to their needs, all participants from science and practice were asked about their assistance requirements and their current cooperation projects and transfer strategies in October 2009.
Another very important concern of the cooperation project is the sustainability of the targeted development of structures for German prevention research. Consequently, no measures are restricted to the projects supported in the BMBF funding programme. External participants are also cordially invited to join in and contribute their ideas!
Mail to: knp-forschung@bzga.de
