The PAPA Project

Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity

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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First Greek PAPA Team Meeting with Coach Educators

The first Greek PAPA team meeting with the Coach Educators was held at the Univerisity of Thessaly. Head coaches of youth football teams from all over Greece visited the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences to discuss the key elements and future planning of the PAPA project.
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Structured physical activity at school improves children's fitness and reduces body fat

A recent study by Swiss researchers has shown that eleven year old school children experienced a decrease in body fat, improved their aerobic fitness, and demonstrated lower cardiovascular risk when undertaking a structured Physical Education (P.E) programme.
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