EU Be Active
Start date: Jan 1, 2015,
End date: Dec 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Many young people (11-15) lack motivation to study and are not interested in personal development. Moreover, modern technologies have done significant influence on children of that age and iPads and iPhones play great role in their life keeping them busy not only after school but during the lessons and breaks as well. All this leads to the decrease of physical activity. So this combination of low motivation for personal development and decrease of physical activity we find as a big problem and threat. On the other hand, sport clubs, schools and other organizations working with young people often lack tools, skills and competence to provide activities and events attractive to everyone, encourage contacts between people from different social, ethnic, cultural groups and with different capabilities. So thought sport organizations embody a unique potential in prevention and health promotion, this potential is not developed, in many cases do not work and its impact is not visible and measurable. At the same time schools also encounter a problem of students’ indifference not only to physical activity, but to personal development as well. Our main idea is to use sport as a tool to improve social, personal and professional skills of young people (11-15) and raise awareness about positive impact of active and healthy life style. We presume that information about the need of physical activity should reach not only children, but their teachers as well and this should be done in innovative way. Our aim is to make sport and physical activity a way to improve motivation for personal development in terms of gaining physical, social and even scientific knowledge. We believe that new method of combining sport and scientific approach may be effective way to raise awareness about the necessity of physical activity and may contribute to the implementation of EU Physical Activity Guidelines (10, 13 and 23).