Supporting Pre-schoolers’ Psychomotor Skills for Encouraging Them to do Sport

Background Our project, 'Supporting Pre-schoolers' Psychomotor Skills for Encouraging Them to do Sport', is an Erasmus+ Small Cooperation Partnership project. The project was carried out between 01.01.2021 and 30.06.2022 under the coordination of Pendik Municipality. The partners of the project are Gazi University (TR), Asociatia Club Sportiv Experienta Multisport (RO), Municipio de Lousada (PT) and Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas (ES). Objectives The main goal of “Supporting Pre-schoolers’ Psychomotor Skills for Encouraging Them to do Sport / supSport” project is to develop the psycho-motor skills of preschool children to meet sports at an early age, and to raise awareness of the families with 3-6 years old children about their contribution to the psycho-motor skill in order to reach the level appropriate for sports as soon as possible. Implementation During the implementation of the project, three stages were carried out by each partner. These are the application of surveys, the organization of sports events and the realisation of seminars.Questionnaires were created in English by Gazi and all partners implemented.Each partner carried out sports activities in their own country. Seminars were held to improve the psychomotor skills of children aged 3-6, to increase the knowledge level of families and encourage children to do sports. Achievements By 5 project partners in total: •343 questionnaires were conducted,•30 sports activities were carried out, •4 TPMs were organized,•10 seminars for families were organized,•10 seminars for trainers were organized, •European Week of Sports (23-30 September) was celebrated, •Activities were organized within the scope of Erasmus Days and,•Social media accounts and a web page were created for the project.Instagram: supsportprojectFacebook: supsportprojectWeb page: supsport.org