Timeline

Year one
April 2009
• Start Work Package 1
• Start Work Package 6

May 2009
• Cooperation agreement for an effective research consortium that operates at a      European level and has the ability to further develop the evidence base for public      health policies that reduce health inequalities (WP 1)
• Start Work Package 2
• Communication and dissemination strategy and project web-tool (WP 6)

June 2009
• Project Steering Group Meeting 1 in Brussels

July 2009
• Work Package 2 Meeting 1 in Brighton
• Start Work Package 4

August 2009
• Glossary of concepts and publicity material

September 2009
• EU policies overview (WP 6)
• Work package 4 Meeting 1 in Brussels

October 2009
• Start Work Package 3
• Start Work Package 5

November 2009
• First Evaluation Framework Workshop
• Work Package 3 Meeting 1 in Brussels
• Work Package 4 Meeting 2 in Brussels
• Work Package 5 Meeting 1 in Bergen

January 2010
• Review: Social Capital and Health Inequalities in Children and Young People (WP      4)

March 2010
• Publication on evaluation methodologies related to policy impacts on health      inequalities (WP 2)
• Review paper on differential impacts of policies among families and children from      different socio-economic groups (WP 3)
• Literature review on universal and targeted policies (WP 5)
 

Year two
May 2010
• Project Steering Group Meeting 2 in Brussels (WP 1)
• Newsletter 1 (WP 6)
     June 2010
• Report on results of the secondary data analysis related to social capital (WP 4)
     July 2010
• Overview of health policies aimed at children and families, sorted by effectiveness      (WP 3)

August 2010
• Interim policy recommendations on protective factors (WP 4)
• Work Package 4 Meeting 3

September 2010
• Work Package 3 Meeting 2
• End Work Package 4
• Work Package 5 Meeting 2

October 2010
• Work Package 2 meeting 2

November 2010
• Report on results from document analysis: targeted and universal policies (WP 5)
• Second newsletter (WP 6)

January 2011
• Analysis of differential impact of public health policies between SES groups (WP 3)

March 2011
• Project Steering Group meeting 3, Brussels (WP 1)
• Workshop 2: Practice (WP 2)
 

Year three
May 2011
• Quality Matrix on success factors and barriers for effective impact of policies      amongst lower SES groups (WP 3)

June 2011
• Evaluation Framework & best practice template (WP 2)
• Third Newsletter (WP 6)

July 2011
• Case study example of policy evaluation (WP 2)
• Work Package 3 Meeting 3

August 2011
• Work Package 5 Meeting 3
• Written report interview study (WP 5 – August/September/October)
• Interim recommendations for European Action (WP 5 – Aug/Sept/Oct)

September 2011
• Interim recommendations on evaluation methodology (WP 2)
• Interim recommendations for public health policies (WP 3)
• End Work Package 3
• Newsletter 4 (WP 6)

November 2011
• Workshop 3 Policymaking (WP 3)

December 2011
• Project Steering Group Meeting 4 in Brussels (WP 1)
• Book and Final policy recommendations

January 2012
• Work Package 2 Meeting 3

March 2012
• Several published articles: Publication on development of policy tool (WP 2);      Published article by Work Package 5; Publication on outcomes (WP 6)
• End Work Package 1
• End Work Package 2
• End Work Package 5
• Newsletter 6 (WP 6)
• End Work Package 6