OBJECTIVES

The project objectives are to promote the awareness of health-enhancing physical activity, through increased participation in equal access to sport for all. The project’s action is addressed to promoting healthier individual lifestyles in adolescents chiefly those aged 14-25 years old with specific attention to VET trainees.

Individuality mainly means responsibility of the individual to adopt behaviours and habits that are more respectful of themselves today but also in the future; in fact, educational/training activities proposed by school and VET providers must not exhaust the proposal for a regular physical activity.

For all these reasons, the pursuing of the objective should be better realized by focalising the effort on WALKING. It’s an activity which can be done with no barriers; an activity accessible to and suitable for everyone regardless of the "physical condition" (not intended here only as "performance" rather as the ability of interaction between disabled and non-disabled walkers on an equal basis), with zero or very low economic impact, which can be done in different environmental contexts (from city to mountain).

And also developing the walking activity through teenagers could prove to the right choice considering they have greater and faster capacity to adapt their habits. Working on a teenager will be an advantageous move to create a healthy and more communicative adult tomorrow. Moreover, they’ll take the benefit of sport by increasing the sense of responsibility against health problems due by the lack of physical activity. Sometimes, the progress or best practice in that field made in a country, are not well known outside.

This project aims instead to connect and bring together a group of organizations that are actively engaged in sports field or in research data on issues collateral to the sports world, designed as consequences of a lack of participation in sport or difficulties in the access to it.

European cooperation will expand the network of their relationships and improve their knowledge in a learning process based on reciprocity of knowledge and the sharing of best practices sport experienced by each partner. The European Partnership will discuss about the different walking training to be developed, compared and integrated.