The IUHPE-CIPES European Centre has been established on February 28, 2007, after the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (www.iuhpe.org), a global non-governmental organization, and the Italian Confederation for Health Promotion and Education – Piedmont www.cipespiemonte.it.

This agreement follows the “Letter of Intent”, signed on 11th September 2006 by Piedmont Institutions and supported by the Italian Ministry of Health, and accepted by the IUHPE European Regional Committee at its Meeting in Budapest on 17 October 2006.

Overall Goal

The overall common goal of the IUHPE and of the CIPES Piemonte is to contribute to the development of health promotion, to improve health, and to reduce the gap of inequities in Southern and Eastern Europe, including the countries of the Mediterranean Rim through the establishment of a European Centre based in Turin.

The categories of cooperation at this stage are set out as:

• Information and knowledge sharing and dissemination in relation to policy, research and practice in health promotion and health education
• Undertaking activities that contribute to the development of knowledge and practice that further the field of health promotion and health education in Southern and Eastern Europe, including the countries of the Mediterranean Rim
• Development of the IUHPE membership network in Southern and Eastern Europe, including the countries of the Mediterranean Rim
• Organization of the 2008 IUHPE European Conference, as agreed at the IUHPE European Regional Committee at its Meeting in Budapest on 17 October 2006.

Tania is an anthropologist and a final year student in Psychology. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in counselling. She currently cooperates with the Department of Anthropological Sciences (Medical Anthropology) at the University of Genoa where she gained valuable experience in technical and scientific coordination of international projects in the fields of health, care, ethno medicine and traditional medicine. At the Centre she is responsible for the direction in synergy with the local institutions and IUHPE with whom the annual programme of local and international activities is developed.