The National Institute of Public Health, whose research workers have experience with the implementation of health promotion programmes in different communities, has the necessary means to provide schools participating in the network with professional and organizational assistance (. access to information, educational activities and supervision in all major steps of the implementation procedure). To facilitate communication of the special group of the project guarantor with schools in different places of the Czech Republic, NIPH will create a network of regional consultants for the health promoting school project. These will be specialists recruited from interested institutions and organizations working in health services or education, in particular from schools participating.