MOVE TRANSFER II

MOVE Transfer II was a small collaborative partnership project among Sports Union of Slovenia (SUS), International Sport and Culture Association, AJSPT Suceava and UISP Comitato Regionale Emilia Romagna. The goal was to exchange competences, know-how, skills and experiences among the project partners by transferring the Slovenian Best Practice "Healthy Clubs" model of Quality Mark to Romania and Italy, and expand the Healthy Clubs network in Europe. The overall scope of the project was to encourage participation in sport and physical activity, especially by supporting the implementation of the EU Physical Activity Guidelines, and to support the international mobility and the development of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of sport organisations (study visits, trainings and workshops) by sharing and developing good practices. Objectives of the project were:• share and develop the model “Healthy Club” through testing it in different countries and settings• provide people and local communities in Slovenia, Italy and Romania with quality and accessible PA/sport programs• enable Healthy Club programs delivery via UISP and AJSPT Suceava• create an international network of local clubs with the Healthy Club Quality Mark in Slovenia, Italy, Romania and other EU countries• support the international mobility and the development of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of sport organisations (study visits, trainings and workshops) by sharing/developing good practices • develop the Slovenian Healthy Club concept even further trough the feedback and reflections of the project • provide sport organisations and associations in other EU countries the Healthy Club concept• improve the MOVE Transfer methodology.The project had two main focuses: • to foster organisational development and• capacity building by exchanging a good practice at international level and to develop competences, skills, knowledge and attitudes in people engaged in physical activity (such as trainers, coaches, staff of associations etc.).SUS received valuable feedback from partners and had the chance to upgrade the model by learning from the pilot testing in other EU countries. The primary purpose of the quality mark program called “Healthy Clubs” was to promote an organized, regular, professionally managed, properly structured recreational sport activities that takes place in clubs throughout the country. It was obtained by 10 of sport organisations in Italy and 9 of sport organisations in Roomania that offer well designed programmes, prepared for a specific group of users and led by qualified and licensed trainers. All sport organisations, certified with Healthy club Quality Mark in Italy and Romania had developed cooperation with different stakeholders active in different sectors, including public health, local public bodies, insurances, education and research, depending on the local situation. “Healthy Clubs” implemented a wide range of activities and engaging a wide range of groups, including people with disability, youngsters and seniors. The main outcomes produced by the project MOVE Transfer II were implementation of Healthy Club quality mark model in Romania and Italy and expanding Healthy Clubs network in Europe. Partners have strengthened cooperation via 44 of offline meetings and 37 of online meetings, and invited 37 stakeholders from different sectors to a network. Communication materials, website, awareness-raising activities, dissemination and promotional activities were implemented in 2 years. Move Transfer Healthy Clubs guidelines, several Healthy Exercise ABC programme workshops, Healthy Diary and Healthy Exercise programme ABC – exercise cards are available in English.