University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The Research Centre for Health Promotion at the UIB is a WHO collaborative centre. Its charge is to initiate, coordinate and conduct research, teaching and other activities in the arenas of prevention and health promotion. The PAPA- research team members at UIB are all part of the SIPA (Social Influence Processes in Adolescent health) research subgroup. The group consists of twenty researchers and has extensive research experience in evaluating health promotion interventions among youth as well as in managing large-scale cross-national studies of health behaviours among school-aged children.

Team
Professor Bente Wold
Professor Oddrun Samdal
Dr Ellen Merethe Haug (post-doc)
Associate Professor Torill Larsen
Associate Professor Hege Eikeland Tjomsland
Associate Professor Ingrid Holsen
Associate Professor Åge Røssing Diseth
Professor Rune Krumsvik

 
 
Papa News
PAPA Main Trial Gets Underway in Norway

The delivery of all workshops for the main trial phase of the PAPA Project has now been completed in Norway. In total 17 workshops were conducted by the seven selected Coach Educators throughout three different regions in the country.
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First Greek PAPA team meeting with the CEs

The first Greek PAPA team meeting with the CEs was held in the University of Thessaly. Head coaches (Aleksiou V., Patronis N., Keramidas P., Sigalas V., Voutiritsas T., Stefanis E., Loutsos G., Masouras A., Karagiannis T., Gioti G., & Kalogiannis P.) of youth football teams from all over the Greece visited the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences to discuss the key elements and future planning of the PAPA project.
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