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.
Sivas, Turkiye, 3-5 October 2025
Iasi, Romania, 8-10 October 2025
Lodz, Poland, 15-17 October 2025
Barcelos, Portugal, 5-7 December 2025
The sport focus workshop series are part of the awareness campaign "Sport cALL for a healthy lifestyle".
The workshops aimed to increase young people's motivation to participate in sports activities and improve their physical condition by supporting a healthy and active lifestyle and promoting environmental protection.
The workshops represented the applicative framework to put in practice the lesson plans of outdoor education for health, created within the project. The sport sessions were 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 were facilitated by an international team of trainers from each project partner.
Sports applied included relay games, tabata, Zumba, dance sport, bingo and volley football.
The outdoor sport workshops series contributed to development of personal skills as well as promoting sport values, active participation and social inclusion of young people at the community life.
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 contributed to increase knowledge and attitudes for good health and wellbeing.
- Sivas, Turkiye - 19 May 2026
- The public sport event in Sivas, Türkiye, focused on promoting outdoor physical activity through a community hiking experience. Participants enjoyed a healthy walk in nature while learning about the importance of active lifestyles and environmental responsibility. The event demonstrated how simple outdoor activities can strengthen physical wellbeing, encourage social interaction, and increase appreciation for natural environments.
- Barcelos, Portugal - 24 May 2026
- The public sport event in Barcelos, Portugal combined a variety of outdoor fitness activities, including warm-up exercises, walking, military-style training, and Pilates. The event encouraged participants of different ages and fitness levels to enjoy physical activity in an open-air environment while highlighting the positive relationship between sport, health, and environmental awareness.
- Iasi, Romania - 30 May 2026
- The public event in Iași, Romania brought together local sports clubs, coaches, young people, and families for an afternoon dedicated to grassroots sport. Participants enjoyed demonstrations of dance sport, aerobic gymnastics, volleyball, Zumba, athletics, and cheerleading. The event celebrated the diversity of sport, promoted healthy lifestyles, strengthened community engagement, and showcased the valuable contribution of local sports organisations.
- Lodz, Poland - 30 May 2026
- The public sport event in Łódź, Poland, encouraged participants to embrace an active lifestyle through warm-up activities, running, jogging, and walking. Designed as an inclusive outdoor event, it welcomed participants of all ages and fitness levels, demonstrating that regular physical activity is accessible to everyone and plays an essential role in improving health and wellbeing.
Dissemination
The dissemination activities ensured that the project results, educational resources, and good practices reached a wide audience across Europe and continued to create impact beyond the project's lifetime.
Project Booklet
One of the project's main educational outputs was the development of a booklet containing 20 lesson plans. The publication provides practical methods that combine sport, outdoor education, environmental awareness, healthy lifestyles, and social inclusion. Designed for teachers, coaches, youth workers, and sport organisations, the booklet offers innovative activities that can be easily adapted to different age groups and abilities.
Erasmus+ Sport Info day, 11 December 2026, Brussels
The project was promoted during the Erasmus+ Sport Info Day in Brussels, increasing its visibility among European sport stakeholders and providing an opportunity to present its innovative approach combining sport, healthy lifestyles, outdoor education, and environmental awareness.
Workshops
The disseminational local workshops combined physical activity with environmental education, teamwork, and healthy lifestyle promotion. The workshops encouraged active participation, learning through experience, and the exchange of good practices between countries.
A special focus of the project was inclusion through sport. Each partner organised dedicated workshops involving participants with special needs, adapting activities to ensure accessibility, equal participation, and enjoyment for everyone. These sessions demonstrated how sport can become a powerful tool for social inclusion, confidence building, communication, and community engagement.
The sport workshops:
- Sivas, Turkyie, 22 June 2026 - including youth with special needs in cooperation with Sifaiye Özel Eğitim Uygulama Okulu
- Lodz, Poland, 18 June 2026 - including youth with special needs in cooperation with "Zespół Szkół Specjalnych nr 2 w Łodzi"
- Lodz, Poland, 29 June 2026 - including youth with special needs in cooperation with Zespół Opiekuńczo-Wychowawczy Sióstr Salezjanek „Ochronka Bałucka” w Łodzi
- Iasi, Romania - 23 September 2025 in cooperation with Virgil Madgearu College of Economics
- Iasi, Romania, 25 September 2025 in cooperation with Virgil Madgearu College of Economics
- Barcelos, Portugal, 06 November 2025 - football game bringing together young people from Barcelos and IAFA office staff
- Barcelos, Portugal, 22 May 2026 - Zumba activity including youth with special needs in cooperation with APACI
Sport events
- Barcelos, Portugal, 22 May 2026 - Zumba event in partnership with M.O.V.E with local residents of Barcelos
- Mtskheta, Georgia, 10 June 2026 – Hiking activity organised within the in Erasmus Plus Youth Mobility Project “Step into nature” that involved young people from from Turkiye, Georgia, Spain, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland
- Iasi, Romania, 25 June 2026 - sport event bringing together local sport clubs, schools, families, young people, and community members that promoted the benefits of regular physical activity, healthy lifestyles, environmental responsibility, and grassroots sport while strengthening cooperation between local stakeholders.
Social media campaign
Throughout the project, all partners actively promoted the project's activities and results through social media. Regular posts, videos, photographs, awareness campaign cards, and event updates increased the visibility of the project, engaged local communities, and encouraged people to adopt healthier and more sustainable lifestyles.
The project facebook page also was a useful tool to present the project activities and other useful info: https://www.facebook.com/youcandanceproject
Project movie
To capture the project's journey, the partnership produced a project movie presenting the international bootcamp, workshops, awareness campaign, public events, and the cooperation between partners. The video highlights the project's achievements and demonstrates how sport can inspire positive social and environmental change.
Final dissemination webinar
The project concluded with an international dissemination webinar, where the partnership presented the project's activities, educational resources, good practices, and final results. The webinar provided an opportunity for educators, coaches, youth workers, policymakers, and sport professionals to exchange ideas and explore ways to transfer the project's methods into their own organisations and communities.
You can watch the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-Khgj3DrQ&t=4529s
Media and public visibility
Project results were further disseminated through press releases, online news articles, institutional websites, partner websites, and local media, ensuring broad visibility at local, national, and European levels and increasing awareness of the role of sport in promoting health, inclusion, and environmental sustainability.
Transnational Partners’ Monitoring and Evaluation Meetings
- 1st 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
- 23rd 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
- 1-4 June 2026, Sivas, Turkiye
- 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.