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Media attention

The final school experiment brought a lot of media attention to the SPLENDID project.
Starting with a video on Futuris, the science programme of the pan-European television channel Euronews, featuring interviews with researchers and students on the usability and aim of SPLENDID. The video also includes interviews with patients and the CEO from the Mandometer and Mandolean clinic on the experience of eating disorders and the prospect of using the system in prevention.

Information on the project was later put up on the European Commissions website, where they could hint at the coming project, BigO, which will use the know-how of the SPLENDID project to not only target individuals, but public health authorities. providing evidence on the impact of specific interventions.

Links:
Euronews – Takeaway: the obesity timebomb
Euronews – Technology trialled in fight against ticking timebomb of obesity
European Commission – Learning to eat right with weighing scales under your dinner plate
Karolinska Institutet – On Facebook June 22
Greek media (text in Greek) – http://www.praktoreio-ygeias.gr/article/1616/-Allaxte-ton-tropo-pou-trote
Greek media (text in Greek) – http://www.cna.org.cy/photoinfo.asp?id=b658cad550c54ca3b7fcd68874ba9343
Greek media (text in Greek) – http://tanea24.gr/alakste-ton-tropo-pou-trote-gia-na-min-paxainete.cd2c07c87e279ed1297a8533b2c1ba11.htm
Greek media (text in Greek) – http://www.inewsgr.com/15/allaxte-ton-tropo-pou-trote-gia-na-min-pachainete.htm
Greek media (text in Greek) – http://www.ethnos.gr/epistimi/arthro/allakste_ton_tropo_pou_trote_gia_na_min_paxainete-64395488/