European Healthy Lifestyle Actions - EHLA

Duration: 24 months: 1 November 2024 – 31 October 2026

Territory of intervention: The project has European scope and takes place in:

• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Italy
• Ireland
• Turkey

 

Applicant: European Lifestyle Alliance (EHLA - Belgium)

Coordinator: Sourpassport (Ireland)

 

Partners:

• SportDrenthe, Netherlands
• Kinetic Analysis, Netherlands
• Sports Activities and Administration Trade inc, Turkey
• UISP, Italy

 

Funding body: EU Erasmus+Sport 2024-SCP

 

SUMMARY:

Despite several public health campaigns on the benefits of physical activity, the impact and success have been limited and highlight a gap between theory and practice (increase in physical activity). The project aims to fill this gap by raising awareness from a practical perspective, helping the health and sports community to integrate successful initiatives. The EHLA project aims to identify and analyse the three most innovative measures to promote physical activity and to define a methodology to facilitate the integration of these measures into the activities and strategies of the target stakeholders. This method and the innovative measures will be tested and disseminated through an awareness campaign with the aim of increasing awareness on physical activity by presenting evidence and analysing the experiences gained through different initiatives and good practices.

 

OBJECTIVES:

The EHLA project aims to identify and analyse the three most innovative measures to promote physical activity and to define a methodology to facilitate the integration of these measures into the activities and strategies of the target stakeholders. 

 

PROJECT ACTIONS:

Work Package 1: Project management and coordination

Work Package 2: Innovative practices to boost physical activity

WP2 aims to provide a methodological framework to boost the practice of physical activity among target actors.

1. Benchmarking analysis about the barriers and challenges in the promotion of physical activity
2. Identification and validation of 3 innovative measures for promoting physical activity.
3. Knowledge exchange (study visit)
4. Pilot test of innovative measures (in schools)

 

Work Package 3: Development of innovative tools to boost Physical activity

WP3 aims to develop a set of tools that help partners and organisation to boost the practice of physical activity.

1. Elaboration and publication of a guideline to promote physical activity.
2. Design and development of Apps, software infrastructure to promote physical activity.
3. Capacity building programme

 

Work Package 4: Awareness campaign to promote physical activity

WP4 aims to promote a learning awareness campaign to promote physical activity to test the three most innovative measures to boost physical activity.

1. Definition of policy recommendations: white papers

 

Work Package 5: Communication, dissemination, and exploitation

WP5 aims to stablish and implement the project’s communication and dissemination strategy to involve and engage relevant stakeholders and inform them about the project’s achievements as well as to organise activities to communicate and disseminate the project’s objectives, activities and expected results.

 

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Materials produced:

• Benchmarking study
• Report on the results of the knowledge exchange visits
• Report on the results of the pilot tests
• Guidelines for promoting physical activity
• Smartphone application
• E-book with the contents of the Capacity Building Programme (CBP)
• Report on the results of the CBP
• White Papers of policy recommendations

New skills:

• Acquisition of new experience and knowledge of practices in the different project countries through participation in at least three events organised by the partners.
• Development of the capacity for cross-sectoral action for the promotion of physical activity through the implementation of public events: Workshop
• Development of the capacity for partnership and networking at European level