Marta Marques was appointed Executive Editor of the new open-access EHPS journal Health Psychology Bulletin. Health Psychology Bulletin is a disruptive open access journal that encourages full disclosure and explicitly welcomes both direct and conceptual replications, null findings, reports of failed manipulations, as well as empirical papers and reviews. More information HERE.

CIPER | Self-Regulation Group was represented at the 2016 Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society and the British Psychology Society Division of Health Psychology in Aberdeen (August 23-27). Marta Marques participated with two presentations titled "Digital weight management lifestyle interventions in adults: systematic review of behaviour change theories and techniques" and "Motivation and behaviour change techniques based on self-determination theory: a consensus analysis". More information about the conference HERE.

Marta Marques was elected Ordinary Member of the Executive Committee of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS). The EHPS is a professional organisation formed to promote empirical and theoretical research in and applications of health psychology within Europe as well as the interchange of information related to health psychology with other associations throughout the world towards an international achievement of these aims. More information HERE.

Marlene Silva e Hugo Pereira participated in the EuroFIT project meeting in Leuven, Belgium (November 8-10). More information about the project HERE.

Marlene Silva joined the panel "Football and Health" included in the 18th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Heart Foundation, on November 18. More details on the panel developed by the FPF HERE.

Marlene Silva discussed the facilitators of engagement in exercise promotion programs for overweight, sedentary men at the 20th Portuguese Congress on Obesity (November 19). More details about this conference HERE.

Marlene Silva participated as a keynote in the Scientific Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Sport Psychology (November 24), discussing good practices in scaling up interventions from experimental settings. The EuroFIT program was used to illustrate several key issues and the potential role of football clubs and their resources as facilitators of health behavioral changes at the community level. More details about this conference HERE.

This past weekend, on December 3rd, Pedro Teixeira presented the project Keep on Running: Exploring Running Behaviors in Individuals and Groups, on the VII Running International Congress. The congress was integrated in the activities of the National Program of March and Race, from the Athletics Portuguese Federation (PNMC), and co-promoted by the University of Lisbon (UL). You can see HERE the congress program.