EDU-SPORT

Food and sports education paths for active lifestyles

Duration: 12 months: 09 June 2025 – 08 June 2026

 

Territory of intervention: The project has national value and takes place in 7 Italian cities:

• Genoa
• Matera
• Oristano
• Perugia
• Rome
• Taranto
• Turin

 

Applicant / Coordinator: UISP APS

 

Partners: 10 schools in the cities of intervention and some local authorities have joined the project:

• Genoa - I.C. BOLZANETO
• Genoa - I.C. TEGLIA
• Genoa - I.C. MOLASSANA
• Matera - I.C. BRAMANTE – TORRACA
• Matera – I.C. E. FERMI
• Oristano – I.C. STATALE N. 1-2
• Perugia - D.D.S. FRANCO RASETTI
• Rome – IC ZAVERIA CASSIA/Gestito dalla Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus Kairos
• Taranto/Leporano – I.C. GEMELLI
• Turin/Pianezza - I.C. PIANEZZA

 

• Municipality of MATERA
• Municipality of LEPORANO (TA)
• COOP LIGURIA - Genoa

 

Funding body: Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Department for Sport: Call for Sports Promotion Bodies for the selection of projects aimed at promoting sports activities, health and nutritional education: “Let’s feed sport” – 2024 financial year.

 

 

ABSTRACT:

Through the EDU-SPORT project: food and sports education paths for active lifestyles, UISP APS intends to implement an intervention in schools that can combine the promotion of sports activities with training on health and food education, providing moments of physical and sports activity at school and outside of school, and training and dissemination activities relating to psychophysical well-being and health, as well as the importance of following a healthy and balanced diet.

 

OBJECTIVES:

General Objectives

• Promote the improvement of the nutritional status of children to prevent childhood obesity and related health risks;
• Increase levels of physical activity in the youth population and reduce sedentary habits

Specific Objectives

• Develop effective proposals and reproducible models for the promotion of physical activity and healthy lifestyle behaviors for children and their families, both at school and outside of school;
• Organization of recreational and physical activity paths for children aged 5-11 in primary schools with a focus on active and healthy lifestyles and, therefore, linking them to good nutrition;
• Inform children, families and educators about correct eating habits and active lifestyles

 

PROJECT ACTIONS:

1) PROJECT LAUNCH WITH NETWORK ACTIVATION AND TERRITORIAL NETWORK

• Creation of the Management Board and launch of the local network
• Development of coordination mechanisms (National and Local level)
• Contacts with schools, Local Entities, Associations and local services
• Kick-off meeting
• Monitoring and Evaluation/management control
• Drafting of the final report

 

2) STAFF CAPACITY BUILDING / TRAINING 

• Start-up training workshop
• Ongoing training workshop

 

3) EDUCATIONAL COURSES IN AND OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL

• School courses on food and sports education

Module 1 – Food Education and Healthy Lifestyles

Module 2 – Playful/motor activities AT SCHOOL

Module 3 – Playful/motor and intergenerational activities IN THE TERRITORY

 

4) COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

• Project communication
• Information and awareness campaign

 

5) CAPITALIZATION

• Local Final Events / Move Week 2026
• Final National Round Table

 

6) PROJECT CLOSURE

• Activity closure and reporting

 

EXPECTED RESULTS:

• Creation of a network of reference stakeholders working on the topic of health, active lifestyles and correct eating habits
• Increase in the skills of project managers and school staff on nutrition and healthy lifestyles: at least 85 people participated in the training workshop
• Information on the topics of healthy lifestyles and correct nutrition transmitted to approximately 500 people including parents and reference adults;
• Sensitization of the target (approximately 500 children aged 5-11 and reference adults) on healthy eating habits and healthy lifestyles;
• Changes detected in the daily eating and physical activity habits of approximately 250 children involved and their families;
• Increase in the involvement of approximately 500 children aged 5-11 in sports and recreational / physical activities inside and outside school;
• Increase in the involvement of approximately 250 parents in children's physical activities and in the eating habits of the family unit;
• Organization of about 60 local sporting events in the cities involved;
• Organization of 7 local final events in the cities involved in conjunction with the Move Week 2026;
• Organization of a final Round Table to present project results and lessons learned;
• Increased awareness of the general public (about 500,000 people) on the issues through the dissemination of awareness-raising materials