PAPA is a European-based project committed to enhancing young peoples’ health and well-being, via positive experiences in youth sport. Our goal is to develop, deliver and evaluate a theoretically-grounded and evidence-based coach education programme that can help coaches foster quality motivation and make youth sport engaging, empowering, and enjoyable. The PAPA Project is funded by the EC under the Framework 7 programme. PAPA involves a collaboration between leading researchers and sporting leaders in the UK, Norway, Spain, France and Greece.
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PAPA Main Trial Gets Underway in Norway
The delivery of all workshops for the main trial phase of the PAPA Project has now been completed in Norway. In total 17 workshops were conducted by the seven selected Coach Educators throughout three different regions in the country.
The first Greek PAPA team meeting with the CEs was held in the University of Thessaly. Head coaches (Aleksiou V., Patronis N., Keramidas P., Sigalas V., Voutiritsas T., Stefanis E., Loutsos G., Masouras A., Karagiannis T., Gioti G., & Kalogiannis P.) of youth football teams from all over the Greece visited the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences to discuss the key elements and future planning of the PAPA project.
