The booklet is a follow up on the discussion that took place in Lisbon, 1999, at the Seventh Business meeting of the ENHPS national coordinators. The editors of this publication organized a workshop titled “Main components of a health promoting school – lessons learned”. The workshop participants were asked to work in small groups to outline a comprehensive model of a health promoting school by sharing, confronting and challenging ideas and experience from their own country networks. These joint models as well as the debate they raised served as an inspiration for further exploration and elaboration of the.
