STAP to organise conference on local alcohol policy and community based interventions

The Dutch Institute for Alcohol policy (STAP) is organizing a small conference on 1- 2 October in Amsterdam on effective alcohol policies and community interventions.

As part of its contribution to the Building Capacity project STAP is to produce a manual for the development and implementation of effective local alcohol policy and community based interventions in Europe.

Speakers at the conference include a select group of experts and project leaders of local alcohol policy projects from Western Europe, among which Sven Andréasson and Marion Rackard.

The aim of the conference is to establish the unifying theme and overarching concepts for the manual, based on the newest theoretical insights and experiences from the field.

The impact of the national alcohol policy, political culture and other specific national characteristics of countries will be also discussed. The aim will be to identify the core elements of effective local alcohol policies that can be applied in any european country.

The manual will be presented at the 4th European Alcohol Policy Conference of organised by EUROCARE on 16-18 June 2010 in Brussels.