ENSP is delighted to announce the next Capacity Building Event will take place in Tallinn (Estonia) on 14-15 November 2017 (Tuesday, Wednesday). The program will consist of a plenary as well as parallel sessions on timely topics. Preliminary program will be shortly published online and distributed via email. Note for Full ENSP Members Representatives: the event is preceded by General Assembly on Monday, 13 November from 17:00 to 20:00. Please register to the Event filling the form below: [wcp_contactform id=”wcpform_1″]

TOB.g Tobacco Cesation Guidelines in French will be launched and disseminated at an event organised by FARES (The Fund of Respirotary Diseases) with several partners including ENSP, on 21 October 2017 at Hôpital Civil Marie Curie, Lodelinsart, Belgium. Over a hundred of healthcare and medical professionals from France and French-speaking Belgium will gather in Charleroi to discuss tobacco dependancy among high-risk groups of population including pregnant women, children, patients with diabetes, and debate on ways to apply the findings of TOB.g research in their practice. The full program of the day is now available. Register for the event here.   […]

Job Description Working within a very small and polyvalent team in the Brussels office, the ENSP Project officer will deal with various tasks related to project management, communication and administration. The job requires a lot of flexibility and a strong willingness to work in the field of tobacco control. Reporting to the Health Policy and Communication Manager, the Project Officer is responsible for managing ENSP joint projects and ensuring that deliverables are accomplished on time. He/she also contributes to the internal and external communication of ENSP and performs administrative tasks as required. Responsibilities and duties Project Coordination Assist project coordination […]

The European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention invites interested and experienced candidates to apply for the position as External Evaluator to carry out an external evaluation of activities relating to the implementation of the ENSP work programme 2017. The objectives of the evaluation are to: evaluate whether ENSP performed in an effective and relevant way in 2017 to reach its key objectives within the five work packages; elaborate recommendations for possible corrective measures. The evaluation will focus on: the areas of ENSP activity, the governance of the ENSP network. The evaluation framework is: the effectiveness of ENSP, including whether […]

JOB DESCRIPTION Working within a very small and polyvalent team in the Brussels office, the ENSP Administration and Finance officer will deal with various tasks related to day-to-day running of the office, ensuring proper financial, administrative and HR service to support a 5 person team, the association board and broader membership. The Administration and Finance Officer will report to the ENSP Secretary General and work closely with the ENSP Projects officer. Full-time position – one-year contract, with extension possibilities MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Annual budget, accounts and regular financial reports / declarations EU funded project financial planning and reports ENSP accounting system […]

As an international network of European tobacco control advocates and academics, ENSP offers support to member organisations in pushing for further action by national governments on implementation of the FCTC and TPD. By attending and running meetings with key stakeholders in tobacco control, ENSP brings together experts and specialists in a wide range of tobacco control areas selected according to national needs, in order to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the existing national efforts in tobacco control. ENSP members are now able to apply for a support visit to their home country to identify barriers and strengths and receive recommendations […]

Prof Loic Josseran, Professor in Public Health at the Versailles St Quentin University, was elected President of the national French coalition Alliance Contre Le Tabac, on Wednesday 27 June. He got into tobacco control in 1998, when he went to the United States on a research looking at French data. When he came back, he set up a staff prevention and smoking cessation service at the Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital in Paris. He started working with Prof Bertrand Dautzenberg, within the smokefree hospital network. After a break, Prof Josseran joined the government, responsible for all issues related to tobacco (2010-2012). . Despite […]

Nearly 10% of the global cigarette trade is illicit; this is significantly higher in low and middle-income countries, reaching up to 50% and above. This makes Illicit tobacco trade a worldwide danger to public health and economy. Among the negative consequences of illicit trade are: Severe risks to public health Support of organised crime Significant economic harm and loss in government revenue Destroyed fair trade Negative ecological consequences Track and trace systems of tobacco products will become obligatory in the EU by 20 May 2019 due to the implementation of Art. 15 and 16 of the Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) […]

On 16-17 June Association PROI from Bosnia and Herzegovina threw light on the fact that a recent summit gathering the officials from Western Balkans in Montenegro was sponsored by JTI. Along with the violation of the FCTC Article 5.3 PROI is concerned with the participation of World Bank representatives in the event. The summit of ministers of finance, governors and directors of tax administrations of the region, “Regional Financial Stability in a New Global Environment” was held from 16 to 17 June in Bečići in Montenegro. The summit became a tobacco industry platform for lobbying against effective public health policy […]

Dear Members, Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, These past months have been extremely busy for ENSP and I would like to express how grateful and proud I am to all our network members, more active than ever, for coming together to make tremendous progress on tobacco control issues. First of all, on 2 March, ENSP organised with MEP Gilles Pargneaux an important event on the issue of track and tracing, to provide information and enable a transparent debate for members of the European Parliament on this sensitive issue. This event allowed us to make this rather technical topic accessible and digestible […]