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.

On September 16-17, the NoHoW international team met in Lisbon to discuss lessons learned about weight loss maintenance through the ongoing development of the NoHoW Toolkit and to plan the next steps for the successful implementation of the trial. More information about the project HERE.

PANO was represented at the International Congress on Obesity and Binge Eating (ICOBE 2015) in Coimbra (September 25-26). Marta Marques presented the H2020 NoHoW Project and Pedro Teixeira gave a talk on the PESO Program. More information about the conference HERE.

The public presentation of the National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey took place on September 18 in the University of Porto. Pedro Teixeira, on behalf of FMH - University of Lisbon, is a researcher of the project, that aims to collect national information on food consumption and on physical activity and its relation with health determinants. More information about this project HERE.

PANO was represented at the Clinical Nutrition Intensive Training that took place in Oporto (October 2-4). Marlene Silva gave a presentation on "Motivational intervention on weight management programs". More information about this event HERE.

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