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Club Health conference Brussels
Media influence on Nightlife

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Data: 13th & 14th October 2010
Place: Kuregem Cellars - Rue Ropsy Chaudron 24 - 1070 Brussels

Price
For 2 days: €80
Students: €60

For 1 day: 40
Students: €30
(incl: registration fee, conference pack, coffee breaks and lunch)

Contact: Johan Jongbloet

The Project

The Club Health project, with 20 associated and 15 collaborating partners from 15 EU Member States and Norway, will support the European Commission (EC) in its public health and other related strategies to reduce the social costs and harm associated with nightlife youth risk behaviours.

The project aims to reduce diseases (especially addictions and sexually transmitted infections), accidents, injuries and violence among youth with a focus on specific environments of nightlife. The project aims to facilitate more consistent implementation of strategies and laws in the field of youth risk behaviour on the one hand, and increase sensitivity of media, advertising industry and politically relevant actors (e.g. policy and decision makers) on their responsibility for action on the other hand.

In recent decades we have seen a proliferation of night time entertainment in the form of parties, raves, discotheques, nightclubs, festivals, themed restaurants, bars, casinos, sport stadia, concert arena, music venues, multiplex cinemas, etc.

This nightlife entertainment has not only become a place where youth have fun, search for distress and relaxation and escape from the social constraints of the rest of the week, but it has increasingly become a place where youth are in search of the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, where one socializes with friends, experiences sexual relations and experiments with substance use. Especially with the rise of the internet we have also witnessed an increasing penetration of mass media in our daily, and in this perspective activities. In this conference we will bring key figures on a European level in media, nightlife and public health together. 

Cutting edge research, supplemented with inside views, testimonies and policy will provide the materials to promote the debate at European level, and disseminate methodologies for the sensitization of media with reference to the promotion of healthy and safe lifestyles among youth.

Speakers

Mark Bellis ‑ Paul Dillon ‑ Tom Evenepoel ‑ Karen Hughes ‑ Tom Palmaerts ‑ Bart Vande Kerckhove ‑ Nico Van de Weghe ‑ Johan Jongbloet ‑ Adam Winstock ‑ Amanda Atkinson ‑ Peer van der Kreeft ‑ Matej Kosir ‑ Tina Van Havere ‑ Jo Vandeurzen ‑ IREFREA ‑ Alex Bücheli ‑ Jochen Schrooten and many others

from   universities ‑ ngo’s ‑ event organisation ‑ prevention services ‑ trend watchers ‑ government ‑ research institutes

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Topics on Lifestyle & Nightlife

1. Party drugs
2. Party health
3. Healthy lifestyle
4. Healthy nightlife
5. Risky nightlife &
   • … drugs
   • …alcohol
   • …sex
   • …depression
   • …violence
   • …safety
6. Addictions
7. IPod generation
8. Raising awareness or behaviour change

Topics on Media

1. Regularisation of publicity
2. Internet media influence
3. Social networks influence
4. Youth and media press
5. Media reporting on nightlife
6. Specialized training for journalists
7. Effectiveness of mass media campaigns
8. Differentiation of messages to target groups
9. Text messaging
10. Interfering in drug user blogs and
11. Chats
12. Paid ads versus free ads