HealthyYOUth - Building back after the Covid-19-Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health of YOUth through Sports
▶Summary
In times of a global pandemic and of green&digital transformations, the teams of Association Sports Europe, Bulgaria, International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development, Italy, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and Federation of Sport Pedagogues, North Macedonia initiated He@lthyYOUth project with the aim to utilise the beneficial effects of physical activity on *health,*personal and *educational development. The main objective of the project:"Building back after the Covid-19-Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health of YOUth through Sports"is to promote physical, mental and cognitive health among adolescents through innovative forms of practicing sport and physical activity, by creating an educational interactive digital platform, an innovative methodology and sport program for personal and educational development. The target groups are:*Adolescents, aged 10-19(50% with fewer opportunities due to socio-economic reasons),who embrace sports as a means of developing personal qualities, physical culture and healthy lifestyle;*Physical educators and coaches, teachers and trainers, sport workers;*Educational and sports institutions. The project foresees: *11 events, involving altogether more than 350 participants from the target groups. *the elaboration of:*Innovative Methodology, based on ETS&holistic approaches and composed by 3modules for physical, mental and cognitive health which will strengthen resilience at learner level through empowered learners, confident PE teachers and digitally adaptive pedagogies;*Innovative sport program that will be applicable in traditional school, for digital home schooling&hybrid forms of PE;*Handbook He@lthyYOUth promoting synergies between sport, health, education, training, and youth;*Digital toolkit (Interactive Educational Digital Platform&training videos for PE modular learning) that will provide high-quality learning content and will help PE teachers&sport workers to be more confident in digital environment.