Abstract
The successful and sustainable implementation of public health policies and actions is essential for assuring more health and wellbeing for societies. To reduce the burden of disease and improve the quality of life of the target populations, within usually limited resources available, successful projects are those sustained over the long term. JA PreventNCD is employing the following specific objectives to achieve higher sustainability: (i) explore and collect sustainability elements of the JA policies and activities, where 22 different elements were identified, tested and piloted within the Consortium in 2024 and 2025, (ii) identify the windows of opportunity within EU governance mechanisms to facilitate the sustainability of the interventions after JA ends; with public food procurement policy as the case presentation (iii) enable sustainability of the actions on health determinants, cancer and other NCDs in EU by establishment of the multistakeholder EU Consortium on NCDs Prevention, (iv) foster the transfer and sustainable integration of the results and outcome recommendations of the JA in the regional, national and European policies, including the actual Presidencies to EU. The main aim of the sustainability efforts in JAPrevent NCD is thus to understand the sustainability elements of the actions, elaborate on them within the scope of the accountability cycle and to provide the recommendations to different policy levels, including EC and the Council of EU. Sustainability of the actions will be supported by acknowledging what is already available from the policy perspective in EU policy space, as the JA is not running in the isolation, by engaging with other similar projects and by using the wellbeing economy concept as the societal baseline.