Nightlife Empowerment and Well-being Implementation Project (NEWIP)

Prof. L. Gamberini, PhD University of Padova, Italy

www.safernightlife.org This action was funded from the European Commission, Public Health Programme (2008–2013), year 2011-2013

Who

Consortium Members: ABD Energy Control (SP), APDES (PT), Modus Vivendi (BE); Stichting Jellinek (NL); Suchtzentrum Leipzig Drug Scouts (DE), Techno Plus (FR), University of Padova (IT), Verein Wiener Sozialprojekte CHEcK iT! (AT)

Participating Countries: 21

Duration: January 2011 – December 2013

Main Goal

To reduce synthetic drug-related harm among European youth

• Integrating innovative health promotion actions within

recreational settings

• Developing community/network empowerment including local authorities, NGOs and nightlife professionals

• Adapting responses to partygoers' mobility and cultures

• Extending responses in terms of geographic coverage

Target • Target group : young partygoers (16-30 years old), synthetic

drug users and potential drug users, particularly tourist partygoers and new member states partygoers. Field Operators: peers, volunteers, outreach workers. Nightlife professionals: club owners and club staff and festival organizers. Local and regional authorities

• Coverage : Europe

• Intervention categories : Prevention & Harm Reduction, Health and well being promotion, Community building, Social Communication

1 - To improve field work interventions: improving and standardizing existing interventions reducing synthetic drugs related harm, facilitating their transferability and implementation.

2 - To develop innovative responses adapted to youth cultures: developing new prevention strategies through the use of interactive technology tools and emerging media.

3 - To adapt responses to partygoers mobility: increasing HR behaviors among tourist partygoers, improving the capacity to respond to crisis situations.

Specific objectives

4- To develop community empowerment: improving health settings and reducing harm through community empowerment among European night clubs and events, implementing "Party+" labels within EU Cities and Regions and involving big summer festivals organizers in HR responses.

5- To implement new projects and to enlarge the network: initiating and supporting emerging projects reducing synthetic drugs related harm in nightlife settings.

6- To improve the rapidity and quality of field responses in relation with new trends, new substances and adulterants.

Specific objectives

TRAINING

ICT BASED INTERVENTION

INTERVENTION IN LARGE EVENTS

QUALITY LABEL NETWORK

TEDI’s Database

• 16.449 samples from 5 different groups working in the field with Drug Checking • 458 different substances inside TEDI’s database • 210 synthetic drugs inside • 60 NPS detected were new for TEDI members during these 3 years of project

3 TEDI trend reports (TTR) until now: 1st TTR: July 2012 2nd TTR: January 2013 3rd TTR: August 2013

TEDI

GOOD PRACTICE STANDARDS

Analyze existing quality standards and guidelines for

prevention and harm reduction

Meetings with experts working on safer nightlife interventions

PE: Send online survey to EU

peer projects

CHOOSE EDPQS AS ‘FRAMEWORK’

Consensus building by organizing brainstormsessions and expert

group discussions

SECOND DRAFT

FINAL STANDARDS

Online survey of existing interventions on

implementation and feasibility THE PROJECT CYCLE

European Drug Prevention Quality Standards

RESULTS & IMPACT RESULTS, MAIN OUTPUT

Results achieved/ Main outputs • NETWORK

90 collaborating partners integrate the NEWIP network. A new large EU network NEW-Net has been created and is today (after the end of the project) actively working.

• INTERVENTION Intervention in 8 big events: “Fusion” Festival (Germany); “Transylvania Calling” Rave (Romania); “Boom” Festival (Portugal); “Outlook” Festival (Croatia); “Dimensions” (Croatia); S.U.N. Festival (Hungary); TEKNIVAL (Romania), Rimini “Notte Rosa” (Italy).

• REACHING TARGET NEWIP has directly reached 43.913 partygoers.

• SAFER PARTY LABEL 207 nightclubs with a safer party label implemented, from 69 cities and 15 European countries. 23 new label processes were initiated with the support of the PartyPlus WP and 7.771.733 partygoers benefit each year from health services provided in the PartyPlus associated clubs.

Results achieved/ Main outputs • ICT FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTION

Multiplayers and multilanguage serious game “WHAT THE DOPE” developed, tested and adopted with success in the intervention. Bluetooth based “proximity social marketing” and other form of mobile transmission of psychological feedback to support behavioural changes have been scientifically explored. Social Networks (e.g. Facebook) have been also adopted for community building and to promote follow-up actions investigating the long term effects of ICT based intervention. ICT very well supported evidence based interventions, introducing updated scientific methods and permitting easier scalability.

• TRAINING 4 training actions (Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania) opening 136 training places from peers of 23 different European projects.

Results achieved/ Main outputs

• DRUGS TESTING 12639 tests were introduced in the TEDI database. There are 458 new substances in the database (210 synthetic drugs were detected as well as 18 new adulterants). The TEDI has made 6 contributions to the early warning system. 3 Drug trend reports have been released in 25 different countries, 5 of which are new member states

• STANDARDS 4 good practice standards were produced: Peer Education Interventions in Nightlife Settings; Drug Checking; Safer Nightlife Labels and Charters; Serious Games in Nightlife Settings

• CONFERENCE “NIGHTS: Health, Pleasure and Communities” created and hosted at the University of Padua. A 170 pages ISBN Proceeding book with 60 works from 130 authors has been published. About 180 people participated to the conference

Outcomes assessment • 74% of partygoers reached by the NEWIP

intervention declare having changed their behaviors positively. (e.g. using HR materials)

• Investigations about VIDEOGAME levels of

“acceptance”, “credibility”, “efficacy to support behaviors changes, “stimulating motivated learning” showed the high value of the introduction of ICT as tool to support social intervention in nightlife scenarios; results are highlighted by several peer-reviewed scientific papers .

Note: follow-up investigations and parts of evaluation process is still ongoing

Outcomes assessment

• 92% of the staff trained by the Party Plus associated labels state that they have improved their skills to respond to health related crisis. 78% of club owners interviewed believes that the staff training has improved their staff skills to respond to health related crisis.

• There are positive examples of community empowerment and building: Party plus network and the NewNet (new EU based networks created inside the project) are the main examples.

Note: follow-up investigations and parts of evaluation process is still ongoing

Gap identified

• The intervention in party settings is still incipient in most european countries particularly in new member states. Health inequalities have been noticed in terms of lack or absence of HR and prevention interventions.

• Need for more specific responses targetting «party tourism» and «intercultural phenomena»

• More investment in emerging media technologies

• Inclusion of early warning information in HR materials

• Extend the Drug Checking services coverage

• More peer inclusion

The way forward

• NEW-Net community/network building

• NIGHTS 2014 conference (will be host in Paris NOVEMBER 22-23rd)

• Continue networking and collaboration within the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs

• NEW future projects…

THANKS for your attention

luciano.gamberini@unipd.it