Build Opportunities for Nourishments by Doing Sports

The general objective of BONDS project was to promote voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in, and equal access to, sport for all. We created the partnership between Romania, Italy, Slovenia and Lithuania to generate several sport and physical activity events along with sports coaching during the 12 months of the implementation of the project. The target group considered as a direct beneficiary of the project represented all the persons interested in daily physical activity as well as in improving their knowledge of health and culture. More specifically, the following three categories: project team and volunteers; possible participants in the project of 4 different nationalities; participants outside the organizations involved in the partnership, decision-makers in the field and other external stakeholders.In the first phase of the project, the GANTT diagram has been updated and a series of plans have been designed to better implement the BONDS activities and to have a smooth management, namely dissemination plan, the communication plan, the events plan, the acquisitions and rentals plan, and the risk management plan. In the 2nd phase of the project, we developed the questionnaires destined for the surveys conducted before and after the events from all the four partner countries. The survey before the events were conducted online for investigating the rate participating in leisure-time physical activity, patterns in the daily physical activity of the respondents, and nourishment information. The survey applied after the events to the BONDS participants aimed to gather information on the evaluation of each event, as well as the information gathered from the survey before the events. Also, in this phase, we developed the e-learning platform on sport and physical activities, which represents also the project website, the information booklets for promoting the project, and conducting the travel arrangements, along with the acquisitions and rentals procedures.The 3rd phase represented the implementation of the sports events in the following order of countries Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia and Romania. The events from Italy, Lithuania and Slovenia were organized on a scale of 160, 20 and 76 participants in 4 days each 09-12 June, 25-28 June and 27-30 June 2018. Some activities from the partners' events along with others were after replicated in the applicant country, Bucharest, Romania on a scale of 124 participants on 19-24 August and 23 November 2018. At the beginning of the Romanian event participated Loredana Dinu and Narcisa Lecusanu, which are performance athletes, to emphasize the importance of sport in life. In addition, at the beginning of phase 3, before the sports events, the Lithuanian partner developed 123 online sport tutorials which were integrated into 12 tutorials of coaching sessions, per 5 different types of activities.In the 4th phase, the knowledge gathered during the five sports events developed during BONDS project was integrated into the guide of good practices, translated in 5 languages, while the information gathered through the surveys was analyzed in the study on sport and healthy lifestyle. These two documents were disseminated through the BONDS platform, the Asociatia Se Poate website, and the e-mail newsletter sent to the decision makers in sport, press, professional athletes, and others, by all partners.