Summary

STOP (Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy) is a Horizon 2020-funded project, which ran from 2018 to 2022, focused on addressing childhood obesity which aimed to expand and consolidate the multi-disciplinary evidence able to inform effective and sustainable policies to prevent and manage childhood obesity. STOP’s primary effort was on highlighting the cumulative impacts of multiple and synergistic exposures in vulnerable and socially disadvantaged children and their families, which must be prioritised to address childhood obesity in Europe. STOP’s research identified critical stages in childhood (starting early on, from prenatal exposures) during which strategic interventions can be most effective and efficient.