Club Health

Safer nightlife for young people

EU partners working to cut harm from alcohol, drugs, injury and violence around nightlife.

Wet European nightlife street at dusk, club lights reflecting on cobblestones.

What the project does

Club Health supports European public health work on nightlife risk. It brings 20 associated and 15 collaborating partners from 15 EU Member States and Norway.

The focus is diseases (especially addictions and sexually transmitted infections), accidents, injuries and violence among youth in nightlife settings.

20Associated partners
15Collaborating partners
3 yearsEC Health Programme

Products

Set of standards for nightlife venues

Standards to improve health and safety in recreational nightlife venues, and to coordinate public and private actors at European, national and local level.

Factsheet (EN) Manual (EN)
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Literature Review WP8

How nightlife drives recreation, jobs and tourism, and the health and social harms that sit beside it.

Review (PDF)

Legislative and policy case studies

Collected measures including Best Bar None, Drinking Banning Orders, alcohol enforcement campaigns, Pubwatch and responsible sales work.

Case studies (PDF)

The Club Health project

Nightlife is a core part of youth recreation and a source of jobs, development and tourism. It also brings alcohol and drug use, anti-social behaviour and crime. Towns and cities must manage both local youth and visitors as tourism grows.

Club Health, with 20 associated and 15 collaborating partners from 15 EU Member States and Norway, supports the European Commission on harm linked to nightlife risk behaviours. It aims for more consistent strategies and laws, and more responsibility from media, advertising and decision makers.

The work builds on the earlier EC project Recreational Culture as a Tool to Prevent Risk Behaviours. Club Health is a three year, €1.2 million project co-financed by the European Commission under the Health Programme.