The INTERSUN Project:

collaborates with specialist agencies to implement key research activities that fill gaps in knowledge;
identifies and quantifies health risks from UV radiation;
develops reliable predictions of health and environmental consequences of changes in UV exposure with stratospheric ozone depletion;
develops practical ways of monitoring change in UV-induced health effects over time in relation to environmental and behavioural change;
provides practical advice and information to national authorities on health and environmental effects of UV exposure, means of efficiently disseminating this information, and measures to protect the general public, workers, tourists, sunbed users and the environment against the adverse effects of increasing UV radiation levels;
focuses on sun protection for children and education in schools, and
promotes the UV Index as an educational tool for sun protection.