Stop (Science and Technology in Childhood Obesity Policy)

stop (science and technology in childhood obesity policy), a horizon 2020-funded project to tackle childhood obesity, aims at expanding and consolidating the multi-disciplinary evidence base upon which effective and sustainable policies can be built to prevent and manage childhood obesity. the primary focus of stop is on the cumulative impacts of multiple and synergistic exposures in vulnerable and socially disadvantaged children and their families, which must be a priority target for the fight against childhood obesity in europe. stop will identify critical stages in childhood (starting from prenatal exposures) at which interventions can be most effective and efficient. over a four-year period (2018-21), the stop project will generate scientifically sound, novel and policy-relevant evidence on the factors that have contributed to the spread of childhood obesity in european countries and on the effects of alternative technological and organisational solutions and policy options availa