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The clinical team from Childrens’s Health Ireland (Temple Street, Dublin) attended the FENS meeting in Dublin. FENS is the European Nutrition Conference, one of the biggest conferences on Nutrition in Europe. The team presented data from their mHealth and BigO feasibility study.

October 24th was World Anti-Obesity Day. To mark that day, teachers of 1st EPAL Kalamarias (Department of Agriculture, Food & Environment) lectured about obesity. They presented facts about obesity, for example, that it is related to several mental and physical health conditions. In addition, students were informed about the BigO project. Teachers instructed the students…

Last week, 19-21st September, the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) took place in Austria. Athanasia Tragomalou (Resident in Pediatrics) was the representative of BigO and  presented an ePoster on a clinical pilot study of BigO: “BigO: The use of novel technologies for the management of childhood obesity – A…

Hello, we are five students (Dries, Naomi, Lisanne, Marije en Tessa) from Het Streek Bovenbuurtweg (Ede, The Netherlands). We are in our fourth year of pre-university education. For our O&O class we were given the assignment to put together a lesson program consisting of two lessons, based on the BigO-app. We had to give those…

On June 6th, 2019 researchers from the BigO project were present during the annual meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) in Prague. During this conference, the BigO researchers presented the project during the symposium entitled: ‘Use of Behavioural Big Data and Citizen Science to enrich scientific data on (un)healthy…

On 22-24 May, 2019, the BigO consortium partners gathered in Thessaloniki. The meeting was focused on the evaluation of data collection at the schools (EA, EKP, IEGS) and the clinics (BRFAA, Mando, TSCUH) while using the myBigO app and portals. In addition, plans were made to increase participant involvement and boost data collection in the coming…

Assistant Professor Ioannis Ioakeimidis (KI) and Professor Anastasios Delopoulos (AUTH) were invited to present in JRC’s Marketplace for Best practices in Ispra, Italy at May 14-15, 2019, focusing on behavioural analysis of eating and physical activity behaviours at schools. During the 2 day event, the two representatives had the possibility to present current advances in…

The results of one of the first pilot studies of the BigO project were presented as an oral presentation entitled “BigO: Big Data Against Childhood Obesity – A Clinical Pilot Study in Greece” at the 12th State of the Art Adolescent Medicine Course, Athens, Greece on the 6th of April, 2019. This pilot study was carried out…

The ASOI (Association for the Study of Obesity in Ireland) hosted its 7th Annual Conference and AGM on 17 and 18 May 2019 in Dublin.  Speakers came from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including clinical, social science, media and patients. Many sessions were led by patient representatives. Topics included the role of genetics in determining…