European School Sport Day 2020 – Sport for self-esteem
The European School Sport Day® (ESSD) is a pan-European initiative with the main objectives to promote sport and health enhancing physical activity at international level and involve as many children and young people, schools and organizations in physical activity programs as possible. ESSD also aims to break down cultural barriers and contribute to social inclusion. ESSD has been first organized in 2015 with the support of Erasmus Plus Program. In 2016, organized with the continued support of the Erasmus Plus Program, the inclusive sport event had 1.5 million participants in 20 countries. In 2017, Hungarian School Sport Federation has engaged 2 million participants in 26 European countries and ESSD became the biggest event of European Week of Sport. In 2018, ESSD was organized as a Flagship Event of European Week of Sport in 29 European countries. By extending its main objectives, ESSD 2020 especially will be aimed at exploring the relation between sport and media. By this, ESSD wants to reflect on and will place emphasis on the the fact that (social) media has an ever growing importance in the life of our children. This trend implicates obvious risks concerning the physical activity levels of the youngsters, but, with appropriate measures and methodology, the use of social media can contribute to the propmotion of healthy lifestyle and the mental health of the individual. The Toolkit developed earlier by partnering organizations provides schools and pupils relevant methodological and practical information on how they can organise their own physical activity programs. Thus, ESSD is fostering volunteering in sport and more particularly in school sport. The project implements the objectives included in the EU policies on education and sport in a holistic way, interlinking the policy areas defined in the Guidelines: sport, health and education. Besides, through the establishment of flagship events, ESSD aims to connect European youth through school sport.
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