The Ministers and high-level delegates of the Member States of the Small Countries Initiative with populations of 2 million and fewer, and partners, met in person in Luxembourg on 10–12 May 2023 to attend the Ninth High-level Meeting of the Small Countries Initiative: advancing health and well-being. This was an opportunity to share our progress in implementing the Roadmap towards better health in small countries in the WHO European Region, 2022–2025,1 and to address the growing challenges of small countries in our Region and beyond.

The 17th meeting of the EU Physical Activity Focal Points Network was held in Nice, France, 30 –31 August 2022. The aim of the meeting — the first in-person meeting since 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic — was to explore how the research agenda can be aligned with the development, implementation and evaluation of physical activity policies in European Union Member States.2 The meeting was organized to coincide with the HEPA Europe conference, in order to facilitate exchange between the focal points and the HEPA Europe Network.