Work in Progress

Partners' Institution:

OMNIA

Project's period (from/to):

01 January 2015 - 31 December 2016

Objectives of activities carried out:

Phase 4 "Guidelines for Policy Makers" aims to provide policy makers in charge of making policies in the field of education as well as in the field of sport and health of Guidelines to raise awareness on the importance of promoting sport at school and on the promotion of a more effective integration of physical education in the school curricula taking into account the promotion of an ethical approach to sport.
The Guidelines will also be addressed to national, regional and local Sport committees, as well as sport association.

Two different Guidelines will be created:
• Sport and School Education.
The guidelines will focus on the importance of promoting sport at school level and will provide indications to policy makers for this purpose. The guidelines will also propose how to enhance the integration between schools activities (both curricular and extracurricular) and sport activities in order to break the invisible barrier that often presents school and sport themselves as incompatible. The Guidelines will set principles, suggest necessary steps and solutions, based on the best practices in the field at European level to promote sport and physical activities as a beneficial tool for enhancing school educational offer and not as a menace.
• Education for an ethic based Sport.
The guidelines will focus on how to promote an ethic based approach to sport, illustrating what to do, through reference to successful experiences in the field, to overcome the hypercompetitive approach to sport that too often Media and society diffuse and promote and that leads too often to the need to succeed and therefore to bypass rules (e.g. doping, match fixing etc) to achieve the goal

The Guidelines will be developed in English and translated in all partners’ languages

Description of activities carried out:

The work on guidelines has started in May. Petra and Kati have worked together on three chapters providing the draft version to be commented by other partners, the final version ready and the translations done.

Outcomes:

The first draft for the three chapters that were assigned for us.
Translations of the guidelines from English to Finnish, task accomplished.

Evaluation of the work undertaken:

It would have been very useful to use common online tools already from the begining of the writing (like Google Drive for example). This would have allowed us to see how the others were processing and hadling their topics. It was quite difficult to start working on the issue even though the instructions were good. There is a dabger that the chapters will stay too country specific if we do not manage to get enough information from other countries and from the European level.

The schedule is also challenging for us in Finland as we start our holidays in the end of June, at the latest and return back to work only in mid-August. Hopefully we get some feedback and comments in time so that we can edit the materials.

The final outcome of the guidelines is not very coherent due to the fact that each partner worked in their own without any common discussion, It would have been helpful to have a common working area, like Offiec 365 or Google Drive to share ideas and create the texts. We have not been able to make use of this outcome.