Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia (NIJZ), Community Healthcare Center Dr Adolf Drolc Maribor (Slovenia), the Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine of the University of Latvia, and the University Hospital Centre of Nantes (France) launched a new project to accelerate gastric cancer reduction in Europe, at a kick-off meeting on 18 November in Ljubljana, Slovenia.