Expert meeting Youth and Active Lifestyle Interventions
Aims of the expert meeting
- to share experience and knowledge of successful innovative European Youth interventions.
- to amplify and enlarge the European network KEY PLAYERS for Youth, sport and physical activity and to make decisions about the role and tasks of the network in future.
- to make plans concerning exchanges between youth within the theme of sport and active lifestyle through the program Youth in Action from the European Union
Results of the Expert meeting:
- Three interventions are presented and discussed about: whoZnext, Communities on the Move and Sport and Alcohol
- The main idea for a plan to start up whoZnext in 5 different countries (Norway, Austria, Romania, Poland and Italy) is developed
- A plan to organize a training for professionals (youth workers) in the field of whoZnext, Communities on the Move and Sport & Alcohol is agreed upon
- Professionalization of the structure for the network is discussed and agreed upon
- Find partnership in the project Sport & Stress initiated by the DFS (Dolnośląska Federacja Sportu)
Plans for the future:
- Apply for funds at the Dutch Agency of Youth in Action for a training for professionals
- Create a strong network (KEY PLAYERS) by putting in place a steering committee and defining members of the network
- Apply for funds at several Youth in Action-agencies in order to make a start with whoZnext on local level in five European countries
- Apply for a project Sport & Stress by DFS (Dolnośląska Federacja Sportu)
More information about the interventions as mentioned:
Factsheet whoZnext (download) or www.whoZnext.nl
Factsheet CoM (download) or http://www.communitiesinbeweging.nisb.nl/cat/1438/Communities_on_the_move
Factsheet Youth, Sports and Alcohol (download) or mailto Corina Korner, ASKÖ: corina.korner@askoe.at
