The document discusses the European Commission's policies and initiatives to promote physical activity and sport. It outlines the Commission's role in facilitating exchange of best practices between member states on increasing physical activity and monitoring national policies. It also describes the Commission's funding programs like Erasmus+ that support projects related to physical activity promotion. Major events organized by the Commission like the European Week of Sport are also summarized.

1. Sport
Sectoral Vision of MOVING Europe
Florence Mondin, Policy Officer
Sport Policy and Programme Unit
DG Education and Culture
European Commission
MOVING EUROPE – MOVING PEOPLE
conference, Ljubljana
15 November 2016

2. Sport
Subsidiarity
• The EU's role in the
field of sport

3. Sport
• Physical activity promotion through
EU sport policy
• Policy actions:
 2013 Council Recommendation on promoting
HEPA, Council Conclusions
 Expert Group recommendations, studies
• Funding (e.g. Erasmus+ Sport)
• Awareness-raising campaign (European Week of
Sport)

4. Sport
Implementation of the
Council Recommendation
on HEPA (Nov 2013)
Progress Report end 2016

5. Sport
Member States
• Develop a cross- sector approach involving policy areas including sport, health,
education, environment and transport (national strategies and action plans)
Commission
• Exchange of good practices in the Expert Group on HEPA (EU Work Plan for
Sport 2014-2017)
Set of national good practices to be published in October 2016
(http://ec.europa.eu/sport/policy/cooperation/expert-groups-2014-2017_en.htm)
Facilitating exchange of best
practices on HEPA among
Member States

6. Sport
Monitoring framework established by
the Council Recommendation on HEPA
across sectors
 23 indicators
 Network of national physical activity focal points
operational
 Cooperation with World Health Organization
 1st edition of the physical activity country fact
sheets published in Sept 2015 in cooperation with
WHO
(WHO) http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/physical-activity/country-work
Improving the monitoring of national
HEPA policies

7. Physical activity surveillance is
improving
HEPA coordination is
improving
How to improve comparability?
Some outcomes from the monitoring
carried out in 2015

8. Sport
Encourage physical activity
at younger age

9. Sport
Encouraging physical activity at
younger age
• Key role of schools
• Minimum requirements of physical activity (WHO)
• Expert Group recommendations to encourage physical
education at school, including motor skills in early childhood,
and to create valuable interactions with the sport sector,
local authorities and the private sector (EU Work Plan for
Sport 2014-2017)
(http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetailDoc&id=19860&no=1)
• Council conclusions on the promotion of motor skills,
physical and sport activities for children (adopted 24 Nov
2015)
(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52015XG1215%2807%29 )

10. Sport
10
The Eurydice report on
physical education (2013)
was a useful source
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/docu
ments/thematic_reports/150EN.pdf

11. SportSport
Carry out studies to strengthen
the evidence base for policy-
making
• Study on EU Physical Activity Guidelines
• Study on the contribution of sport to regional
development through the Structural Funds
 http://ec.europa.eu/sport/library/index_en.htm

12. Sport
Co-financing projects and
events

13. Sport
• Objective: boost skills and employability, as well as
modernising Education, Training, and Youth work
• Total budget: 14.7 billion€ (266M€ for Sport)
• Support for
• Collaborative partnerships / Small Collaborative partnerships
• Not-for-profit European sport events
• Actions that strengthen the evidence base for policy-making
• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm
Erasmus+, the programme for
Education , Training , Youth
and Sport (2014-2020)
13

14. Sport
Promoting HEPA is a priority
• 2014 & 2015 (out of Week of Sport): 7 major events (3,3M€)
and 26 collaborative partnerships (about 10M€)
• 2016: 11 projects (4.3M€)
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/selection-results/sport-collaborative-
partnershipssmall-collaborative-partnerships-in-sport-field-and-not-for-profit_en
See Erasmus+
projects database!
Draft

15. Sport
Erasmus+ Sport in 2017
• Call launched in October 2016
• Deadline 6 April 2017
• Budget: +/- 5.6M€ for PA
• Commission Decision on Simplified grants for
Sport actions (13 September 2016)
• Erasmus+ Sport Info Day (31 January 2017)
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/

16. Sport
European Parliament Pilot Project on
HEPA
Call for proposals for Promoting HEPA policy measures and
actions for refugees
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/calls/2016/eac-s16_en.htm
• Objective: promotion of HEPA for
refugees
• HEPA activities: projects covering at
least 6 Member States particularly
concerned by the arrival of refugees
• Total budget = 600K€
• Maximum 60K€ per grant
• 53 project proposals received

17. Sport
Horizon 2020
Biggest EU Research and Innovation
programme ever with nearly €80 billion of
funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)
All calls:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/de
sktop/en/opportunities/h2020/index.html
Promoting mental health and wellbeing in the young
(Societal Challenged): deadline 4 Oct
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/to
pics/sc1-pm-07-2017.html
Work Programme 2018-2020 under preparation (adoption
autumn 2017)

18. Sport
Massive Open Online Course
(MOOC) on EU budget and
funding for regions and cities
• 6 modules on different topics - focus on EU budget and funding for
regions and cities
• Co-created with the European Investment Bank and the European
Commission
• More than 50 speakers: EU officials, academics, practitioners and
local/regional authorities
• Online from 31 October to 9 December 2016 (the course material
remain available until July 2017)
• Possibility to download a free certificate of achievement
• 10,000 expected participants; already 1,650 registrations
• Registration: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/CoR/114001/session01/about
• Information and contact: welcome@cor.europa.eu

19. Sport
European Week of Sport

20. Sport
• Set Focus Themes : Education, workplace, outdoors, sport
clubs and fitness centres
• Opening Event on 10 Sept. 2016 in Košice, Slovakia
• Flagship Event on 15 Sept. 2016 in Brussels, focusing on
Good Governance
• Conferences and events organised by others (House of
Sport, ICSS, etc.)
• Several awards (school, workplace, local hero)
European Week of Sport 2016
Future: From 23 to 30 September each year

21. Sport
• European Mobility Week 16-22/9
• Civitas initiative: database of innovative measures by cities
(http://www.civitas-initiative.org/mobility-solutions-page)
• ELTIS - the urban mobility observatory (http://www.eltis.org/)
• Member States Expert Group on Urban Mobility
(http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm)
• Commission webpage on cycling:
(http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/urban/cycling_en.htm)
Urban mobility

22. Sport
Further information
• Commission's Sport Policy and Programme Unit website:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/
• Projects selected under Erasmus+ 2016:
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/selection-results/sport-collaborative-
partnershipssmall-collaborative-partnerships-in-sport-field-and-not-for-profit_en
• Erasmus+ projects database: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-
plus/projects/
• Contact: Sport Policy and Programme Unit:
EAC-UNITE-C3@ec.europa.eu
florence.mondin@ec.europa.eu
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