The competition, "Youth in Motion - Sport unites Europe", is striving to make our children and teenagers aware of how much time they devote to physical activity each day. We want to encourage them to spend more time being active - ideally, with other children from school, local sports clubs, children's and youth associations in Hesse, Germany and all over Europe. Let's motivate each other!

The competition consists of 3 parts: "Team Building", "Activity Competition" and "Creativity Competition".

• Team Building: Everybody can take part. Schools, sports clubs, kindergartens, day care centres and other children's and youth clubs or groups. Pupils from a particular class or school who wish to take part are asked to look for partners, e.g. other schools, clubs or care centres in the neighbourhood or region, in Hesse, Germany or - even better - in the whole of Europe. The aim is to build a team together. The original school, etc. coordinates the competition for the whole team, and acts as the "team leader", entering their team, collecting the results, and sending the results in. (Kuhlmann)
  
  
  
  
• Activity Competition: Once the teams have found each other, they will organise a first "activity week" in May. Individual children and teenagers in the team will then, each day, write down their own "time of activity", recording the extent of their physical exercise. We have created a form called "My time of activity" for everyone to use.
  The type of activity chosen is totally up to the participants. They can run, jump, ride a horse, ride a bike, swim, throw, do gymnastics, play ball games, swing their arms, walk up stairs, etc. We have given examples for activities on the "activity" form - and the children can enter their own types of activity as well. At the end of the week, each participant will figure out his or her total time of activity. The individual times of all the team members will then be added up, entered on the form under "Time of activity - results" and sent to the contact address via fax or email.
  The results of each team will be published on the internet.
  The second Activity Competition in September will be organised and assessed in exactly the same way.
  
  
  
  
  
• Creativity Competition: Children and teenagers will come up with ideas for games, projects for breaks, lessons, leisure time and clubs to increase their time of activity. Creativity knows no boundaries - the young people's ideas are supposed to be fun, they should include as many children as possible, and they should be easy to put into practice.
  All ideas for the Creativity Competition can be entered via fax or email. They will be published on the internet.
  In June and October, a team of experts will award prizes to the best ideas and projects.
  
  
  

Competition Schedule 2004