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Organisation & Contact

CAN - the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs - is coordinating the ESPAD project and responsibkle for publising the international reports. Contact information to the coordinators are dsiplayed below.

All major decisions within the ESPAD project are taken at the Project meetings, which are open to all ESPAD researchers. They include decisions about the questionnaire, the data collection procedure, Regional seminars, National project plans and reports, as well as about the ESPAD Database. Project meetings are held annually.

Between the Project meetings all major decisions are taken by the Steering Committee which also functions as an editorial board for the International reports. The Steering Committee are:

Chair: Björn Hibell (Sweden)
Salme Ahlström (Finland) Olga Balakireva (Ukraine)
      Thoroddur Bjarnason (Iceland)     Ulf Guttormsson (Sweden)
Anna Kokkevi (Greece) Ludwig Kraus (Germany)

In each ESPAD member country there is an appointed contact person - Principal Investigator - in charge for the data collection and other national issues. To get in contact with the responsible researcher(s) in respective country, please use the flags to the right or the country-links in the table found under Participating countries.

Since the 2003 data collection all national datasets is merged into a common database. Thoroddur Bjarnason (Iceland) is the Database manager and thereby responsible for the creation and maintenance of the ESPAD Database.

Apart from the obligatory core questions there are now four optional Modules available:

At the moment there are four active Thematic groups, with the aim to generate academic publications in specific areas based on ESPAD data:

Throughout the years several methodological ad hoc groups have been formed to tackle issues such as questionnaire development, sampling procedures, database construction and standardized syntax and data cleaning issues.

Björn Hibell and Ulf Guttormsson, located at CAN (Sweden), are coordinating the ESPAD project.

Björn Hibell

 

 

Björn Hibell
Phone  + 46 8 412 4607
Mobile + 46 70 514 1508
Ulf Guttormsson

 

 

Ulf Guttormsson
Phone  + 46 8 412 4619
Mobile + 46 70 730 8211

CAN - the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs
Klara Norra Kyrkogata 34 | Box 70 412 | S-107 25 Stockholm | Sweden
can@can.se | Phone +46 8 412 4600 | Fax +46 8 104641 | www.can.se


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