European project

“Sport cALL for a healthy lifestyle”

 

The pandemic generated by Covid19 and the current climate crisis has brought challenging times, with health and social issues without precedent. Regular exercises contribute to maintaining a healthy weight, improving cardiovascular health, enhancing muscle strength, and promoting overall physical fitness being linked to stress reduction and alleviate mental fatigue. Outdoor activities provide an opportunity to connect with the natural world, fostering a sense of well-being and connectedness. Outdoor activities and exercise not only has direct physical and mental health benefits but also fosters a connection to nature.

In this context the project approaches a multi-disciplinary strategy.

The project supports healthy lifestyle and wellbeing as essential to learn effectively, cope with day-to-day challenges, stress, anxiety, and depression and develop into resilient adults with emotional awareness and having self-confidence.

The project underlines the need to create safe and supportive environments where youth feel comfortable discussing their lifestyle and how to support wellbeing. The two topics will be approached in the framework of the international priority of the environment protection.

The project contributes to developing the quality of support systems for grassroots sport activities and the capacity of civil society organisations in the sport and outdoor education field in the benefit of the environment.

The project outcomes will be publicly promoted through the project booklet that will include 20 lesson plans of outdoor education methods for environment education through sport techniques that can be used by teachers, trainers, coaches, and a webinar. In the project activities there it is developed an extended cooperation with local sport clubs, NGOs and schools from the partners’ communities.

 

Preparatory Transnational Partners’ Meeting

• 09-10 February 2025, Barcelos, Portugal
• The project coordination activities ensure a smooth coordination of the work planned activities in order to ensure the coherence of the project. The preparatory meeting included the overall project strategy implementation, project planning, risk management and technical coordination.

 

International Bootcamp Sport and environment fusion

• 09-15 May, Bușteni, Romania
• The bootcamp facilitated the exchanging of sport practices and emphasize on sports multi-disciplinary benefits for wellbeing.
• The activity involved 20 participants, resource people such as sport teachers, non-formal education and sport trainers, youth workers and sport staff from Romania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey.
• The activity represented a strong base for identifying sport practices, methodology and techniques for putting in value the sport benefits for physical and mental health. 
• Within the sport bootcamp there were applied sports such as martial arts, orienteering, football, jogging, relay games, dance sport, Zumba, foot volleyball, bingo.
• The bootcamp represented a great opportunity for the trainers, athletes and coaches involved to benefit of more development of the activity with new approaches, new information and new elements to use within their sport approach and techniques, to learn new ideas, exchange good practices with other coaches from other countries, to develop new competences and have a more open vision based on involvement in different sports.

 

Awareness campaign - online

• April 2025 – June 2026
• The campaign aims promotion of grassroots sports and how sport, as a healthy lifestyle indicator, can contribute to environmental awareness.
• The online has been implemented on social media by promotion of information on sport benefits for health.

 

Sport focus workshop series

• October – December 2025
• Turkey, Romania, Poland, Portugal
• The workshops represent the applicative framework to put in practice the lesson plans of outdoor education for health, created within the project. The sport sessions are supported by the project partners and involve young people, including young people with and without mental and physical disabilities for raising awareness of sport impact for health.
• The workshops are facilitated by an international team of trainers from each project partner.
• The outdoor sport workshops series contribute to development of personal skills as well as promoting sport values, active participation and social inclusion of young people at the community life.

 

Public sport events

• Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey
• March – May 2025
• The awareness campaign includes 1 public sport event in each local community of the partners (Iasi, Sivas, Lodz and Barcelos) with the involvement of sport stakeholders, sport clubs, sport schools and general public, mainly youth.
• The sport events, taking place in open space areas underline the role of sport by supporting impact, values sharing and promotion of environmental protection. The public sport events contribute to increase knowledge and attitudes for good health and wellbeing.

 

 

Transnational Partners’ Monitoring and Evaluation Meetings

• 1^st Transnational Partners’ Monitoring Meeting
  • 14th of june 2025, Online
  • The meeting has a monitoring role on the project implementation steps, partners involvement and cooperation and tasks accomplishment.
• 2nd Transnational Partners’ Monitoring Meeting
  • 24th of January 2026, Online
  • Within the meeting the project is discussed in detail with the project team, including the detailed analysis on the project activities and main stages, tasks and responsibilities, results achieved and results to be reached by the end of the project following the project timeline.
• Evaluation Transnational Partners’ Meeting
  • 13-14 June 2026, Sivas, Turkey
  • The meeting has the role to evaluate the project implementation and results and prepare the project final report by analysis and discussions.
  • In the evaluation of the overall project it is centralized the feedback of the coordination team, of the international team involved, of the participants at the bootcamp, of the participants at the multiplying events, of other stakeholders and important actors or beneficiaries involved etc.