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ENGLISH VERSION
OPES IN SWEDEN: LET’S KICK-OFF THE CHAMP PROJECT!
The kick-off meeting of the European project CHAMP
took place at the headquarters of the Swedish Sports
Confederation in Stockholm on 6 and 7 March 2019.
As a project partner, OPES participated to the meeting
with two delegates from the International Relations,
International Cooperation and Project Designing
Department who will follow the implementation of
the project until its conclusion in June 2021.
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CHAMP (Clubs for Health-enhancement, Activation,
Modernization and Participation) is a project
coordinated by ENGSO together with eight partners
from 8 countries (Italy, Denmark, Portugal, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Germany) with the aim
to provide the sport movement with innovative tools
to promote physical activity. The project is a response
to the challenges of the current context, within which
we are assisting to a change in the field of sport and
in the activities it is offering. Despite the presence
of new actors, such as private fitness centers and
online tools, statistics show how the population in
Europe turns out not to be active enough and that
the benefits of physical activity as a tool for health
protection are underestimated. The world of sport
has therefore a clear task: to find new ways to attract
people and promote physical activity among them.
In this regard, new technologies are promising and,
if properly used, they can give new opportunities
to the sports movement, favoring an increased
participation. By adopting this purpose, partners
have created CHAMP to offer sports clubs and
sports organizations innovative tools and training
opportunities that make it possible to modernize
their modus operandi and to offer new solutions
aimed at promoting physical activity.
For this reason, the project aims to:
• collect information with respect to good practices
from the sports and not only;
• encourage the training of sports staff;
• introduce innovations into the sporting world that
will also attract new members.
An intense phase began with the meeting of March,
which will see all the partners engaged in research
and the collection of good practices in Europe.
Stay tuned to follow the next steps!
CHAMP
to encourage
sports participation
in a constantly changing world