Walk around the Earth

ongoing

Project ‘Walk arProject “Walk around the Earth” addresses alarming problem of lack of physical activity among children, that exploded with COVID-19 lockdowns. Project Coordinator invited 9 partners (from Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Serbia and Cyprus) to prepare together project that will raise children’s motivation to start being active and increase chances to adopt a habit of regular physical activity and practicing healthy lifestyle in general as alternative to prevailing sedentary lifestyle. Project will develop 6 virtual routes and accompanying content (interesting facts connected to each route about ecology, general knowledge, social and EU topics, ...) and invite participants (primarily partners’ students) to form teams and together finish predefined virtual route (walking, running, cycling or skating, when- and wherever they want). They will have Mobile app (developed in this project) to record results in real time, see “virtual route” map, their current position and scoreboard with individual and group results. Participants will be encouraged to invite in team people with different social status, gender, physical and mental (dis)ability thus raising awareness of equal opportunities and inclusive society. In described way, project's main objective will be fulfilled: to motivate students age 9-15 and other interested stakeholders to engage into physical activity by integrating it with digital technologies (Mobile app, physical activity tracking component) and learning opportunities (Mobile app, educational component) thus making physical activity attractive and fun for participants. Main objective will be achieved via development of SO1: “Walk around the Earth” model; SO2: educational content for 6 routes and SO3: Mobile app. Project's results (6 routes, Mobile app, edu.content) will be piloted and evaluated (SO4) by 2200 people/per route (approx.1050 students and 1150 other stakeholders from), making project's impact significant.