Supporting teachers to maximise enjoyable MVPA minutes in children and youth: Project Enjoyable MVPA Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting teachers to maximise enjoyable MVPA minutes in children and youth: Project Enjoyable MVPA

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Project Aim: Our main project horizontal priority is supporting teachers. Specifically, we aim to support physical education (PE) teachers in elementary and secondary schools. Our main horizontal aim leads to several additional areas such as supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences and strengthening the profiles of the teaching professions. Our partnership is providing support for the acquisition and development of the key competency of teaching fundamental movement and sport skills in a way to maximise moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in PE class. The main horizontal priority and associated secondary aims supports several European priorities. Those are (1) Health and Wellbeing; (2) Innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; and (3) Strategic Partnerships supporting innovation. Background: For decades, physical inactivity has been at epidemic levels. The health and wellbeing of Europe let alone the world suffers in production and growth resulting in an enormous financial burden as the result of physical inactivity across an inactive person’s lifetime. Children and youth are key to the future thriving communities, countries, and nations.
Intellectual Output: Our partnership is developing an innovative product to arm PE teachers and other such professionals (e.g., teachers supervising recess periods, sport club coaches) to combat physical inactivity levels in our partner countries with the aim of European dissemination and eventual international dissemination. Partners: Our partnership is composed of leading international experts with extensive country-based PE contacts and support from top-level stakeholders (e.g., Olympic bodies and government ministries). The partners for this proposal are the University of Tartu (Estonia), LIKES (Finland), Vilnius University and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The specific staff at each partner university or centre are world-renowned in reputation with their extensive publications, presentations, and grant activities. Implementation, Dissemination, and Sustainability: Given each partner’s reputation and extensive networks implementation and dissemination across each partner country of our innovative product will occur. Sustainability of the product and continued use is expected. Two products will be developed, digital and print. Both will be 100% freely available. Each partner will ensure the continued use of the product. Our overall desire is the spread of our product across the EU and eventually internationally.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221744 Eur

Project Coordinator

TARTU ULIKOOL & Country: EE

Project Partners

• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
• JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU