Activity Nutrition Education Transboundary Obesity

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The ANETO project aims to launch a cross-border educational program between France and Spain for the prevention of childhood obesity. This project will integrate nutritional aspects with a prevention program for schools and school canteens, together with the promotion of healthy living and physical activity among children. This project is innovative in that it strives to establish a coordinated action from all the involved health actors (nutrition, sport, education professionals) on both sides of the border in order to build an operational device to be put into practice in the territories concerned. The aim is to raise awareness among children, school educators and families on the importance of living a healthy life where both, proper nutrition and exercise, play a key role. The ANETO project will devise pedagogical tools adapted for an effective recognition of this issue together with a medium-term dissemination embodied within educational programs. The sport-health theme is recognized as a relevant public health commitment, and it has already been integrated in a natural way in our cross-border environment which is rich in exchanges (cross-border conventions, cooperation in sport, etc.). Beyond the project, cross-border specificity would be taken into account in the choice of physical activities to be developed (cross-border heritage games), bilingualism of all tools implemented, and coordination of educational systems.

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