At European level there is strong evidence and political agreement that more HEPA at school is needed. At the same time local stakeholders are confronted with inadequate structures and insufficient resources. Sport organizations have the potential to support the school sector in this task and to effectuate change. ASE wants to motivate and empower sport organizations at different levels to become active partners for schools. The project will (1) facilitate professional exchange between existing initiatives in the EU Member States (2) develop quality benchmarks (3) stimulate innovation and (4) combine forces in advocacy and awareness-raising. Partner forums and a targeted mobility scheme will facilitate the exchange between programs. A systematic benchmarking process will define desirable standards and best practice related e.g. to education and training; evaluation and impact measurement or issues of sustainability and funding. ASE will run an ideas competition and collaboratively implement innovative pilot projects. A European sport- and school sector cooperation award will be one of the project´s innovative approaches to awareness-raising. To exert a broad effect on the sector, ASE will link some of Europe´s largest national school sport programs under which various types of sport organizations in Europe already collaborate with thousands of (pre-) schools on the ground. Any transfer of innovation, which will result from the project can thus feed into already existing large-scale programs. The cascading effect, which can be generated by the ASE partnership through their current programs, is tremendous. Local implementers are connected to more than 17.100 (pre-) schools with programs reaching out to more than 2 million children and youth. This does not only provide significant implementation power for new ideas and concepts, but would also create a strong bridge to communicate the European Union´s HEPA-related policies into the sport and education sector.