SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AGAINST CHILDREN'S TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION

To promote awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in, and equal access to, sport for all, The project Sport and Physical Activity against Children's Technology Addiction has been implemented by an international consorsium which lead of HİS. The consorsium is consist with HİS, FDM Valencia, INCS Romania and AGSK Turkey. The main objective of the project is that, as a result of the developing technology, the sociological, psychological and physiological negative effects of the society, especially the children, after they move to a still life style rather than a moving lifestyle than the past, have been removed from the society, with the computer, tablets, internet and smart phone taking an important place in our lives. The project was started on 1st of January, 2018 and completed on 30th of June, 2019 in totaly for 18 monhts.Project implementation process consists of 5 basic parts:1st PART: 1st meeting in Spain, Preparation of the coordinator for the pilot implementatios as a result of the first meeting of the partners and evaluation of the project process (Januray – June 2018. In this part, the Kick-off meeting was held on 2nd and 3rd of March, 2018 in Spain. After this meeting, partner FDM Valencia prepared a basic sport and pyhsical activities programme for children target group age between from 6 to 13. The coordinator HİS brought a survey to the meeting about technology addiction for children and their family. And evaluted the survey with the all partners.2nd PART: 1st Pilot project implementation at provincial sport center in Antalya (July – August 2018. In this part,the 1st pilot project sport implementation was implemented on july and august in 2018 in Antalya/Turkey by partner AGSK. And also, techonology addiction seminar was held for childrens's and their families by youth worker who works in Youth center. After that the 1st sport festival was organized on 12th of september 2018 in Antalya by the Coordinator HİS hosting in partner AGSK. 3rd PART: 2nd pilot project implementation at Primarly and Secondary School in Ankara (September 2018-January 2019). Because of the weather condition in Ankara and some challenges about the bureaucratic procedures After that, the school's managements suggested to delay the programme to March and April 2019. We accepted this suggestion because, delay it according to suggestion was the best choice. So, The pilot project implementations in two schools were held between march and April 2019 in Ankara in the same time. The seminar about techonology addiction implemented for the students and their families by the guidance teachers. After the end of the program, a sports festival was organized in the garden of each school.4th PART: 2nd meeting in Romania, evaluation of the questionnaires (February 2019). This meeting was held on 7th and 8th of February 2019 in Romania. All partners evaluted the survey result and also discussed the project life until this meeting and planned the next life of project from this meeting to finish of the project.5th PART: Final seminer in Antalya organized by the Coordinator. The final meeting and seminar organized by Coordinator HİS with the help of all partners. On the first day of the meeting, an evalutaion and quality control meeting was held by all partners attending and beside a public seminar on technology addiction was held with the participation of local institutions, academicians, athletes, coaches, teachers and parents. After this seminar, some sport activities and some pyhsical educative games were performed by coaches and childrens. On the second day of final meeting, the partners discussed about the overall evaluation of the project and what to do in the next project consorsium and final report process.For more and detail information, please have a look at www.sportchildren.net offcial web site of Project.