The first meeting for researchers from the Eastern European and Central Asian countries (EECA countries), to support Health Promoting School research in these countries and to strengthen the link with the SHE Research Group. The meeting was held in Moscow 14-15 November 2018. From the core group of the SHE Research Group, Marjorita Sormunen and Didier Jourdan were facilitators. The workshop was organized jointly by the SHE secretariat, the SHE branch office in Moscow and WHO EURO