EprObes – Early Prevention Of Obesity

Preventing obesity at early stages of life. Discover how.

Obesity is one of the main population health threats worldwide, with a sustained increase in prevalence over the last decades and a constellation of co-morbidities that seriously hamper individual wellbeing and life-expectancy.

Effective prevention strategies are essential to avoid complications of overweight during the life-course.

eprObes is a European project promoted by 21 organisations from 7 European countries with a 10 million euros budget.

The global aim of eprObes is to identify factors related with excessive weight gain in critical early maturational periods, including peri- conceptional / gestational, early child development and puberty / adolescence, for setting tailored preventive measures to avoid obesity and its comorbidities in both sexes.

NEWS

OBEClust Webinar

Date: Feb. 05, 2026 | Time: 13:00 am

We are excited to invite you to the second free webinar of The European Cluster of Obesity Research Projects (OBEClust), titled “Strengthening Understanding of Obesity as a Chronic Disease”.

Consortium Meeting

From 3 to 5 March 2026, the next eprObes consortium meeting will take place in Córdoba, Spain, coinciding with World Obesity Day. On this occasion, the External Advisory Board will join representatives from the project’s 21 partner organisations. The meeting will serve to assess current progress, discuss key challenges, and align on priorities for the next phases of the project aimed at preventing childhood obesity in Europe.

Copenhagen October 2025

As the project approached its midpoint, the fifth in-person eprObes meeting was held in Copenhagen from 6 to 7 October 2025. The event provided an opportunity for partners to jointly review the latest project developments and to further define the next steps.