To make sport and physical activity attractive to young people it is important to involve them as much as possible. Active youth participation in sport; a stronger cooperation between school, welfare, health and sport organizations; community schools with sports in their program in leisure time after school; sport in the day arrangements of youngsters are answers to these problems. Sport and physical activity are both the aim and the method: the aim to live a healthy life and a method to realize youth participation and activate youngsters. The end target group is the inactive youngsters. How come they don’t sport that much? How can we make physical activity and an active lifestyle even more attractive to the ones who don’t like sports? And what can other young people do to stimulate them to get active.
Youth moderators will run the program. Youth moderators are older youngsters (20-25) who like sports and who like to active participate. They will be trained by peers before the meeting starts and they help to accomplish the program. The participants of the seminar will be categorized in three groups: youngsters between 15-22 years old, youth workers and people of regional or national sport organizations. The youngsters are going to give feedback on the national plans the organizations have and during the seminar we will change roles between youngsters, youth workers and contact persons. At the end of the seminar we will have more answers to get youngsters and especially the inactive ones more active.
