APN is a European platform for sharing knowledge, experiences and opinions on public health-oriented alcohol policy issues; working on behalf of its members; with a primary interest in public health and social welfare; organised on a voluntary basis without formal statutes and membership fees.
The APN emerged in the context of an EC sponsored project called Bridging the Gap and was initiated at the meeting of this project in Warsaw in 2004. Over the years the APN has grown, both in number of participants as well as in importance, functioning as a real network: a community of individuals who exchange news, share information and in some cases, cooperate on joint activities; an inspiring, knowledge-increasing, and capacity- strengthening forum for its participants.
Thus, the APN has become a powerful resource for policy making in Europe, bringing together the expertise and experience of a large group of people in leading positions in their respective constituencies in European countries for public health-oriented alcohol policy making. They represent governmental as well as non-governmental agencies such as scientific institutions, public health institutions, treatment agencies, consumer organisations and various other kinds of agencies, as well as international organisations with a strong interest in public health-oriented alcohol policy.
To provide and promote support for implementing healthy alcohol policies at community, regional, national and international European level. More particularly:
The running of the network is entrusted to a Secretariat, a Chair and an Advisory Group.
2023 APN (Alcohol Policy Network in Europe) Symposium
In close co-operation with EUCAM, APN's next Symposium is being planned to take place in Vilnius in the afternoon of Thursday 22nd of June 2023.
12th APN Symposium - Oslo 2022, and 9th EAPC
On Friday, June 17, the 12th symposium of the APN (Alcohol Policy Network Europe) network was held in the city of Oslo, in Norway.
APN Symposium - Oslo, 17 June 2022 - program is now available
We would like to announce that the program for the next APN Symposium, which will take place in Oslo on Friday 17 June, has already been published. The symposium will start at 9:00 and finish at 14:00.
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