Between April and May, Marta Marques and Pedro Teixeira participated as invited speakers in a training on "Health Behavior Change" in the context of the initiative "Live it UP!" promoted by the Public Health Department of the National Association of Medicine Students (ANEM). More information HERE.

Between June 3-6, PANO researchers participated in the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity in Edinburgh, Scotland. More information about the event HERE.

On the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA), Pedro Teixeira was inducted as Fellow of ISBNPA. ISBNPA Fellows are elected by the Executive Committee and are ISBNPA members who have achieved noteworthy accomplishments for the Society.

Marta Marques also gave a seminar on "Motivation and Self-Regulation in Physical Activity, Eating, and Weight Management" hosted by the Health Behaviour Change Research Group, School of Psychology, NUI Galway, on June 10th.

On June 9th, Marta Marques presented the H2020 NoHoW Project, at the mHealth Conference in Galway, Ireland. The conference looked at behavioural science and mobile technology.

On June 30, PANO researchers organised a doctoral seminar on "Assessing Health and Health-Related Behaviors by Questionnaire" at FMH-UL. Maria João Gouveia (ISPA - University Institute) and Pedro Ferreira (CEISUC, FE - University of Coimbra) participated as invited speakers. Marta Marques presented the PANO project "An Open-Access Digital Repository of Self-regulation Measures for Physical Activity, Eating Behavior and Weight Management".

Marta Marques co-edited a special issue of The European Health Psychologist Bulletin entitled "Motivational Interviewing: lessons learnt and challenges ahead". More information about the bulletin HERE.

The PANO research group was represented at the 14th European Congress of Sport Psychology, on July 14-19th, in Bern, Switzerland. Pedro Teixeira participated with a presentation titled "Self-determined motivation, need satisfaction, and weight control". More information about this conference HERE.

PANO was represented at the 29th European Health Psychology Conference in Cyprus (September 1-5). Pedro Teixeira and Marta Marques participated in the pre-conference Sinergy Expert Meeting on "Mhealth for behavior change: Opportunities, challenges and future directions". Pedro Teixeira also gave a presentation on "A systematic review of self-regulation mediators of success in obesity interventions: the SPOTLIGHT project" and Marta Marques presented a free communication titled "An open-access digital repository of self-regulation measures for health behaviors". More information about this conference HERE.

On September 14 and 16, the EuroFIT fieldworkers training took place at the Stadiums of Dragão and Jamor. This meeting was attended by 25 professionals of the fields of Exercise and Health that will insure the conduction of the measurements on FC Porto, Sporting CP, and SL Benfica, under the coordination of the Portuguese EuroFIT research team.