Pre-pilot of the Flagship Healthy Cities training course. Overall report (2018)

The pre-pilot of the Flagship Healthy Cities training course for coordinators of city and national networks was held on 19–21 September 2016 in Turku, Finland. It was a follow-up to the meeting of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and national networks coordinators, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 4–6 April 2016, from which requests arose to discuss and address two main items in the training course: social media and online communications; and leadership.

This report summarizes the topics discussed during the training course by attending coordinators of Healthy Cities and national networks, together with WHO Regional Office for Europe representatives and guest experts and speakers. A separate report details the two modules given as part of the course: social media and online communications; and leadership.