PHETICE-Project overview   The overall aim of this project is to make a contribution to the health of European citizens through supporting and combining the contributions from different professional public health groups. The large range of initiatives taken separately by different groups is more an expression of the new health panorama developing in Europe than the lack of will to co-operate. Each of the five professional programmes involved in this application to a large extent works independently and cross-cutting efforts are rare or non-existent. The work done so far in the different programmes gives an extraordinary basis for developing joint goals, structures and activities between programmes and improving the quality of the training. This gives a possibility to better achieve the goal of educating Public Health professionals for the improvement of the health of European citizens. The group in this application can offer a platform for such a development. To achieve the benefits realised by these opportunities, we have developed a work plan that cuts across our professional training. We believe that developing general educational strategies such as ‘training the trainers’ as well as drawing up professional and academic standards will lead to a strong development of professions willing to help in improving the Health of the populations in EU. Closely related is the development of training on the monitoring of health indicators. If the goal of the EU regarding monitoring health indicators can have any impact, there must be suitably trained professionals available. We further intend to develop databases of educational materials and resources as well as programme linkages for the development of curriculum core modules. The work must be done while identifying European professionals already involved in similar efforts, particularly in the acceding countries, and identifying schools that are close to initiating modern forms of Public Health training.