Healthy and physically active schools in Europe -HEPAS

This project proposal addresses both horizontal and field-specific priorities in the area of Strategic Partnerships for School Education.

The focus lies on the strengthening of the teaching profession, including teachers and teacher educators but also other school staff as a sectoral priority in School Education. By the development of pedagogical resources fostering physical education, school sport as well as physical activity and healthy lifestyle in school settings in the frame of school development and school quality management, teachers’ and future teachers’ and other school staff’s professional development will be enhanced. The developed modular implementation toolkit, available in an open educational webbased resource, will support teachers and other school staff in implementing physically active and healthy lifestyle in daily school life. Teacher educators and school staff trainers will be able to use the developed resources in initial teacher education, in induction and/or continuous professional development of teachers, as well as in continuous professional development of any other school staff. Furthermore, as a horizontal priority, the focus lies on supporting educators in general in enhancing physical activity and healthy lifstyle in school settings and beyond. Due to the particpation of the two international umbrella associations ISCA and EUPEA, both active in two different fields (ISCA: promotion of physical activity and grassroot in general; EUPEA: promotion of physical education and school sport in school settings), and due to the involvement of an academic partner (University of Luxembourg), a school sport federation (HSSF) and an association promoting physical activity in Spain (DES), the project will reach out for educators from all over Europe in different areas in a cross-sectorial approach. Thus, actors from the educational sector and from the grassroots sports sector will be brought together. Finally, through this transnational partnership including five partners from five European countries, dont two acting as international umbrella associations, and 12 associated national partners, lots of individuals reached by these partners will be supported in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences relevant for their professional life. The cooperation and exchange between the participating institutions and their members will be reinforced and strengthened significantly. The cooperation with European umbrella associations of physical activity and grassroots sports (ISCA) and of physical education teacher associations (EUPEA) will strengthen the cooperation between the involved institutions, respectively organizations and professionals, thus underlining the crosssectorial approach of the project.