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"<< Background >>In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic led to severe restrictions in Europe and worldwide, including the closure of non-essential activities due to increased infections and deaths. A significant impact was the significant increase in teleworking among employees. Although teleworking has had advantages and disadvantages for health, a serious problem that has emerged is obesity, with its associated risk of musculoskeletal disorders, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The World Health Organisation has predicted a future 'obesity pandemic' by 2030, as many people spend hours at home, in isolation, with little exercise and a more sedentary lifestyle. This project was created to address obesity in these circumstances. It focused on aspects such as physical activity, education, management, psychological and dietary aspects. Research, surveys and experiments were used to develop best practice recommendations online, actively involve the target audience and create a common strategy to tackle obesity, eating disorders and lack of physical activity among European citizens working from home. << Objectives >>As an overarching objective, a strategy to combat obesity and eating disorders among EU citizens working remotely, together with a unified approach to promote best practices, was to be initiated. The specific objectives of the project were:1)To understand and analyse the relationship between the obesity problem and sedentary, poor and disordered eating, the importance of healthy and sustainable nutrition and physical activity 2) To address the psychological aspect of the obesity problem and the effects of social exclusion due to this critical issue and linked to the increased use of telecommuting 3) To implement an ""ad hoc"" training programme and a sharing of best practices 4) disseminate the experience of ""ad hoc"" training, verifying the effectiveness of all the actions implemented to combat the criticality of obesity due to the sedentary nature of teleworking<< Implementation >>Four events were organised to develop the project and achieve the set goals: the kick off meeting in Drama (Greece), the second meeting in Zagreb (Croatia), a workshop in Lille (France) and the closing meeting in Rome (Italy). During these events, web pages were set up to promote surveys, research, best practices and skills in the fight against the problem of obesity or excess from in work-from-home situations. Afterwards, a learning platform was set up to train the group of volunteers on sustainable healthy diets, physical activities and psychological aspects related to obesity. All training results and best practices were disseminated. << Results >>The concrete outputs were the creation of a guide with the best practices and to create a model of training ""ad hoc"" to follow in order to combat the problem of obesity, poor diet and lack of physical activity among teleworkers, in order to avoid the risk of physical and psychological suffering and social exclusion and disseminate these results, best practices and tools to the partners involved on the project, to the targets of the project, the other stakeholders, institutions, individuals and all those who are interested in them."