Welcome to ESPAD’s website
This is the home page of ESPAD – the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. ESPAD is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in about forty European countries and the largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use in the world.
Data are collected every fourth year with 1995 as the starting point. The fourth data collection was carried out in 35 countries during the spring of 2007 and the results will be published December 2008.
During 2008 there is also a data collection in FYROM and seven new countries that plan to be full ESPAD members and to join in the next regular data collection wave. Resuts from the 2008 data collection will be published during 2009.
The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN) initiated the project in 1993. Support has been provided by the Pompidou Group at the Council of Europe, the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The data collections in individual countries are funded by national sources.
CAN, located in Stockholm (Sweden), is coordinating the ESPAD project while the Database manager is located in Akureyri, (Iceland).
On this web page visitors may download and order reports, generate key results graphs, search among literature references related to the ESPAD project, find contact persons for participating countries and much more.