5th SUNRISE Plenary Meeting in Rome Marks Progress towards Large-Scale European Implementation

Announcement
January 27, 2026

From 26–27 January 2026, the SUNRISE Project consortium gathered in Rome, Italy, for its 5th Plenary Meeting, hosted by FAVO at the Europa Experience – David Sassoli. The two-day meeting marked an important step forward as the project advances into large-scale implementation across multiple European countries.

The Rome meeting focused strongly on the practical rollout of SUNRISE pilot activities, with extensive discussions on recruitment progress, coordination across pilot countries, and shared solutions to implementation challenges. Partners exchanged experiences, aligned approaches, and agreed on concrete actions to ensure consistency, quality, and impact as interventions are delivered in real-school settings.

Digital innovation remained at the heart of the discussions, with updates on the SUNRISE digital ecosystem, including school-based programmes, interactive tools, social media driven health promotion, and educational games designed to strengthen adolescents’ life skills and support healthier behaviours. These sessions highlighted the project’s commitment to youth-centered, adaptable, and evidence-based digital solutions.

The meeting also placed strong emphasis on communication, dissemination, and long-term impact. Partners reviewed progress on social media outreach, exploitation planning, and policy-oriented actions, reinforcing SUNRISE’s ambition to ensure that project outcomes extend beyond the project’s life cycle and meaningfully inform cancer prevention strategies at national and European levels.

The Rome plenary concluded with a shared set of priorities and next steps, confirming the consortium’s readiness to move forward with implementation, evaluation, and outreach. Through continued collaboration and innovation, SUNRISE remains firmly positioned at the forefront of rethinking cancer prevention starting early, inclusively, and sustainably.