Water Skyball in Europe 2

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The Water Skyball in Europe 2 project aims to promote health enhancing physical activities for a wide range of European citizens. Its objectives are to promote Water Skyball (WSB) which is a new and innovative water sport, organise grassroot sport events and motivate physically inactive people to do sport. The target groups of the project are a) People between the ages of 12 - 60 who are interested in new sport opportunities with special focus on the physically inactive people; b) Staff members of the partners. To achieve the objectives, the following activities are implemented: 1) Organisation of 4 trainings for the staff members (12 pers./training) on how to motivate physically inactive people to do sport, the rules and gameplay of WSB and the good practices of sport event organisation. 2) Organisation of 5 WSB tryout events for the staff where they may learn about WSB in practice by playing the game and doing the refereeing. 3) Organisation of 5 grassroot sport events to promote health enhancing physical activities and motivate physically inactive people to do sport. The main sport activity on the events is WSB because it has a significant fun factor which easily motivates newcomer players. The events are organised by the staff, and target a wide audience, including physically inactive people. A significant number of people are expected to either visit or watch the events, in total 500 players, 2500 spectators and 25,000 online viewers. 4) Organisation of 4 webinars to provide virtual learning opportunities which enables the extended staff members and other people interested (in total: 80 pers.) to deepen their knowledge related to the topics of the project. Expected results: 3 handbooks on WSB rules and gameplay, sport event organisation best practices and motivation methods for physically inactive people to do sport; 1 video on WSB rules, 1 excerpt from the official WSB Rulebook; Photos, videos and media appearances on the project’s sport events.