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How much time do you spend being active each day?
If you want to know the exact answer, then join the
competition Youth in Motion - Sport unites Europe
- ideally, with other children from school,
local sports clubs, children's and youth associations,
and from all over Europe.
It's all down to the right team!
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Everybody can take part - kids in 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 from their
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or - even better - from the whole of Europe.
By the way, if you want to find out more about
activity games in other European countries, click
here. Your aim
is to build a team together. If you are taking
part through your school, then the school coordinates
the competition for the whole team and acts as
the 'team leader', entering
your team and collecting the results, as well
as sending them in.
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Get active!
Once the teams have found each other, they will organise
a first activity week in May. Each team
member will then, each day, write down their own 'time
of activity', recording the extent of their physical
exercise. For this, everybody can use a special form
called My
time of activity.
It is totally up to you which type of activity
you choose. You can run, jump, ride a horse, ride
a bike, swim, take part in a throwing sport, do
gymnastics, play ball games, swing your arms, walk
up stairs - whatever you like doing best. You will
find examples for activities on the 'activity' form.
All you have to do is fill in your type of activity
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At the end of the week, everybody will figure out his
or her total time of physical activity. The individual
results of all the team members will then be added up,
entered on the form Time
of activity - results and sent to the contact
address via the internet, fax or email.
The results of each
team will be published on the internet. You can check
at any time to see how your team is doing in the competition.
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Activity begins in the mind!
Come up with ideas for sports games and
activities for school breaks, lessons, leisure
time, clubs or events - anything that gets
you going!
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Use your imagination - there are no limits! A few things,
though - your ideas should include as many children
as possible, should be easy to put into practice, and
should also increase the time you spend being physically
active.
You can enter your ideas
for the Creativity Competition via internet, fax or
email. They will then be published online.
In June and October, a team of experts will award prizes
to the best ideas and projects.
Competition Schedule 2004
| April |
Team building |
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| May - July |
Activity Competition #1
Entry deadline: 16 July 2004 |
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Creativity Competition #1
Entry deadline: 16 July 2004 |
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| July/August |
Summer holidays |
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September
- October |
Activity Competition #2
Entry deadline: 1 November 2004 |
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Creativity Competition #2
Entry deadline: 1 November 2004 |
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| November |
Party and prize award ceremony |
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Let's be more active!
Every day contains 24 hours. Of these, children and youths
spend 9 hours lying down, 9 hours sitting (in school, in front
of the television and the PC) and 5 hours standing. Only 1
hour per day is dedicated to physical exercise, and no more
than 15 to 30 minutes to sports activities! This is nowhere
near enough!
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Examples of teams
A team can consist of:
- School class + kindergarten
+ local sports club
- School class from Hesse
+ school class from an English, French, Austrian... partner
school + French sports club
All combinations are possible - the
bigger the team, the better, because this increases your chances
of winning a prize in the competition.
Of course, any class, school, kindergarten, sports club or
day care centre can also participate on its own - and each
one has a chance of winning. They may also find a team partner
after entering the competition. If you are looking for a team
partner, click here
to contact other teams.
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How the Activity Competition is assessed
- Number of team partners
The teams will be awarded one point for each local team
partner and two points for each European team partner.
- Number of participants
The total number of team members will be assessed - the
more, the better.
- Average time of activity
The total time of activity will be divided by the number
of participants. The result will be the average time of
activity per week per participant
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Party
and prize award ceremony
Success should be rewarded! At the end of the competition,
Youth in Motion - Sport unites Europe, the
most successful teams in the Creativity and Activity Competitions
will be invited to an awards party in November.
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