Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). SEEJPH 2016, posted: 11 January 2016. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 1 EDITORIAL Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Genc Burazeri 1,2 , Ulrich Laaser 3 , Jose M. Martin-Moreno 4,5 , Peter Schröder-Bäck 2,6 1 School of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania; 2 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; 4 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Valencia, Spain; 5 INCLIVA Research Institute, University of Valencia Clinical Hospital, Valencia, Spain; 6 Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Corresponding author: Genc Burazeri, MD, PhD; Address: Rr. “Dibres”, No. 371, Tirana, Albania; E-mail: Genc.Burazeri@maastrichtuniversity.nl Conflicts of interest: None. Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). SEEJPH 2016, posted: 11 January 2016. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 2 The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is an online, open-access, international, peer-reviewed journal, which was launched in 2013 (1). It covers all areas of health sciences, with a main focus on public health. SEEJPH is a journal originating from the ten years of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (2001-2011), but aiming to provide a forum for all countries in transition worldwide, whose research work would otherwise be hardly visible. From this point of view, this journal strives to promote particularly an area referred to as “Health Transition Research” (1). Time is passing, though, and our “baby”, the SEEJPH, is already two years old by now, or more precisely four volumes “old” – volumes with excellent peer-reviewed contributions from many parts of the world and fascinating discussions e.g. on a view back to the Maastricht Treaty on European Union by the leading negotiators of the time (2); “endorsement” of a public health profession (3); the South East European Health Network (SEEHN) (4); the European public health education accreditation system (5); public health ethics (6); as well as several other outstanding original research and review articles tackling a wide range of public health issues. Time to prepare for preschool furtherance? Yes, indeed! We moved to the Open Journal System (OJS), kindly hosted by the University of Bielefeld in Germany. OJS provides all the necessary technical facilities including online submission and review process. But, not only that! In addition, we are now registered in Index Copernicus and are currently under consideration by several other electronic databases. Our executive editorship remains in Tirana, Albania, but we are happy to have engaged now regional editors covering the globe:  Samir N. Banoob, President, Intenational Health Mangement, Tampa, Florida, USA, for the Middle East.  Evelyne de Leeuw, Editor-in-Chief of Health Promotion International, , Sydney, Australia, for the Western Pacific Region.  Damen Haile Mariam, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the African Region.  Charles Surjadi, Faculty of Medicine, Atmajaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia, for the South East Asian Region.  Laura Magana Valladares, Secretaria Académica, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico, Mexico, for Latin America. However, the journal will grow only upon a firm and long-term commitment of experts and researchers worldwide who believe in the pprofessionalisation of public health in order to advance public health education, training, research and practice. We learned from many sides that SEEJPH is considered a valuable contribution to Public Health in South Eastern Europe and transitional countries worldwide. We look forward to applying for an impact factor as soon as it looks promising. Your high level contributions will help a lot. Thus, no time to celebrate but to grow up our little child to adolescence and adulthood! Recommended citation: Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). SEEJPH 2016: Vol. V. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). SEEJPH 2016, posted: 11 January 2016. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 3 Burazeri G, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM, Schröder-Bäck P. Growing up the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Editorial). SEEJPH 2016, posted: 11 January 2016. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-89 4 References 1. Burazeri G, Jankovic S, Laaser U, Martin-Moreno JM. South Eastern European Journal of Public Health: A new international journal. SEEJPH 2014;1. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2013-01. 2. Stein H. The Maastricht Treaty 1992: Taking stock of the past and looking at future perspectives. SEEJPH 2015;1. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-36. 3. Czabanowska K, Laaser U, Stjernberg L. Shaping and authorising a public health profession. SEEJPH 2014;2. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-23. 4. Ruseva M, Chichevalieva S, Harris M, Milevska Kostova N, Jakubowskie E, Klugef H, Martin-Moreno JM. The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health. SEEJPH 2015;1. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH- 2014-34. 5. Goodman J. The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective. SEEJPH 2015;1. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-39. 6. Schröder-Bäck P, Maeckelberghe E, Royo-Bordonada MÁ. The Ethics effect. SEEJPH 2014;2. DOI 10.12908/SEEJPH-2014-31. ___________________________________________________________ © 2016 Burazeri et al; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.