PROJECT DESIGN

The "Walk for all for life” project will be implemented over a period of 24 months, between January 2019 and December 2020.

As a collaborative partnership, W4AL includes a series of interconnected activities which are organized as follows:

- Work Package (WP) 1: Management, coordination and Monitoring: CSI - IT

- Work Package (WP) 2: Communication and dissemination: CSI - IT

- Work Package (WP) 3: Analysis of the Contest & Best Practices: CJD - DE

- Work Package (WP) 4: Staff Training: EGVE - GR

- Work Package (WP) 5: Implementation & Testing: SCF - IT

- Work Package (WP) 6: Evaluation & Quality Assurance: GEN.CAT. - ES

Work Package 1: Management, coordination and Monitoring

WP Leader: Centro Sportivo Italiano - CSI

The aim of this WP is to ensure the effective implementation of all project actions and to guarantee the financial management. Moreover, general scope of monitoring in particular is to support management processes through regular collection and analysis of data from all partners; the goal is therefore to implement the project under controlled conditions and to learn from the collected information to activate improvement actions.

Objectives:

• to assure the right and correct project management, in agreement with the criteria foreseen by the European Commission and Erasmus+ programme, together with time and forms fixed by the implementation plan;
• to assure the project development and to promote the participation of all project partners in all activities of the project;
• to guarantee the financial and administrative project management and to guarantee that the resources and budget are adequately managed and used;
• to identify and agree on the different tasks and activities to be performed by the Applicant (P1) and the partners (PPs);
• to define common actions and methodologies;
• to manage the communications with the Executive Agency;
• to verify and guarantee the effectiveness of the project activities and the efficiency of the project management and coordination, through a permanent control (monitoring) of the activities according to the timetable and to the foreseen results and impacts, evaluation of project results, their sustainability, transferability and project follow-up, the level of cooperation and reciprocity relationship among partners;
• to look for new financial opportunities for the future sustainability of project activities.

Work Package2: Communication and Dissemination

WP Leader: Centro Sportivo Italiano (CSI) – P1 (IT)

For the realization of all the project activities, it will be necessary to create an elaborate and precise strategic communication and promotion plan, addressed both within the working group and externally, which allows to spread in all the countries involved the objectives and purposes underlying the project.

The Centro Sportivo Italiano will be responsible for the communication strategy and will act as a coordination centre for the definition, implementation and related scheduling of individual activities, but all decisions will be taken collegially, taking advantage of the greater knowledge of their country by the other project partners.

Objectives:

The main objectives of the communication and promotions plan will be based on three main directions:

• creation of a communicative and promotional model which will be the same for all project partners and that can be replicated with the same timing in all countries. This will allow us to create a truly pervasive communication activity, creating added value for all member states;
• communicate, disseminate and promote the project and its activities so as to allow coaches and practitioners to get to know and get in touch with the project and its activities. In order to maximize the effects of the strategic communication and promotion plan and the circulation of all relevant information to a wider public and to all the most important stakeholders, communication tools will be applied that are easily accessible to everyone (social networks, website ...). The communication plan will be structured in such a way that it will allow maximum communication effectiveness in all European countries and, more generally, at international level;
• transmit the values ​​and good practices of physical activity, with specific focus on walking, to all the main stakeholders involved (adolescents aged 14 to 25), in order to promote a correct lifestyle based on movement and "being" active".

Work Package 3: Analysis of Best Practices on Walking

WP Leader: CJD – P7 (DE)

Objectives:

• To identify the local context of each participating country and collect data on best practices about walking as a good way of being against sedentary lifestyle, with particular reference to the target group of the project (youngsters aged between 14-25 years old), in correlation to physical and sport activity.
• To analyse the context and to collect good practices and pilot experiences across Europe about the walking
• The analysis will be elaborated on the basis of the national reports provided by each partner. Its main objective is to be a useful guide on how to implement the innovative method.
• To give an overview about the walking; WALKING as an activity accessible to and suitable for everyone regardless of the "physical condition", with zero or very low economic impact, which can be done in different environmental contexts (from city to mountain), etc. An activity that contains a multiplicity of "other values": i.e. commitment, progressively more challenging training to reach a goal; preparation (including the right diet, study of the path, etc.), the possibility of discovering oneself and one's companions in sharing the "journey", the possibility of discovering what is around us and often not "seeing", which can make us visible to citizenship and be open to it, etc.

Work Package 4: Staff Training (EU Joint Staff Training)

WP Leader: EGVE – P3 (GR)

Before starting with the implementation of the different walking footpaths, the trainers of the different countries participating in the project will have the opportunity to carry out a specific training programme.

Part of the training will be carried out in the classroom and in the field to test and verify directly and practically some aspects; another part through the APP project and a platform provided by CSI, where it will be possible to load slides, videos (webinars) but also to create some virtual classrooms for carrying out some training modules.

The course includes the different types of walking with the different features and difficulties of each type of route. Staff training will be a necessary moment to help trainers both from a technical sporting point of view and from a managerial point of view too for the organization and management of the different walking groups based on: terrain, climate, landscapes, etc.

Educational approaches and issues connected with working with adolescents will be tacked too.

The project aims to promote a culture of physical activity as a healthy lifestyle and active citizenship, to support the well-being of inactive young people. The training activity includes sports promotion as well as education through sport, which means to render service to the person, the community and society.

The training programme provided by W4AL is divided in two:

1) ON SITE training

2) ONLINE learning.

The ON SITE training will give the basis for the training of the STAFF and provides also a practical session to deepen the techniques in the field and learn specific exercises. This training will be organized in Bergamo (Italy) at CSI and will be addressed to a selected number of coaches/trainers/PA instructors from partners’ organisations, that is 3/4 people from each partner, for a total number of 22 participants.

The on-site course will have a duration of about 16h, and can be organized in 2-3 days, depending on arrangements on travel and accommodation.

The ONLINE sessions will provide a more specific training programme about the discipline of walking, a deepening of teaching and promotion of the activity.

It will be organised around a total of 8h. The online contents will be usable through the APP itself or through a web platform provided by CSI which also provides virtual classrooms where staff members could exchange, talk, make questions, learn together etc. CSI’s platform was already tested in the framework of the MAPS project and proved to be very effective. Some learning materials will be in the form of webinars which could be followed online (direct view) or in later moments. All staff involved in the project especially in the testing phase at partners’ organisations could access these materials, thus enlarging the number of people trained in this project (expected users of these learning materials is about 45-50 people: coaches, PA instructors, trainers, etc.).

Objectives of the training, as stated, is to train staff on walking activities by providing:

• physiological bases about motor activity and nutrition;
• knowledge of the training and group management methodology
• basic notions of: sports marketing, communication and promotion of events, promotion and enhancement of the territory.

Work Package 5: Implementation & Testing

WP Leader: Scuola Centrale Formazione (SCF) – P2 (IT)

Objectives

The broad scope of this long work package (more than 1 year) is to develop the APP and to put its activities and contents into practise. Implementation serves to verify if:

• theories and ideas at the base of the APP are realistic, applicable, suitable etc. for the target group(s)
• contents are adequate to target group(s)’ needs and characteristics
• APP is friendly, and engaging and succeeds in involving young people actively
• conditions of the testing are clearly set and respected.

The ultimate objective is to observe if and to what extent young people improve their health situations, increase their physical activity performances, enhance their participation and exchange with others.

Work Package 6: Evaluation & Quality Assurance

WP Leader: Generalitat de Catalunya/Departament d’Ensenyament – P4 (ES)

Main objective of this WP is to assure that:

• Project attains its goals and outputs
• Project is implemented under controlled conditions and respecting applicable rules and regulations
• All people involved at all levels are satisfied
• Quality standards fixed by partners are achieved.