Duration of the project:

August 2022 – January 2025

Funding:

Click2move is co-funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme call ERASMUS-SPORT-2021-SCP.

Green League aims to strengthen the relationship between sport and the environment through experiential learning, the promotion of outdoor physical activity as a tool to support environmental awareness and the encouragement of sustainable practices in sport.

Green League answers the needs of encouraging the population to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts and of promoting healthy lives and well-being for everyone, therefore using sport as a tool to generate environmental awareness while contributing to a healthier lifestyle.

Aims and objectives

• develop and facilitate training addressing employers’ occupational health services and managers to enhance the applicability of the digital-based and cross-cultural HEPA strategies among employees working from home.
• evaluate the applicability of the digital-based and cross-cultural strategies and its impact on employee’s sitting time during work hours, HEPA, well-being and job productivity.
• increase awareness about the importance of HEPA promotion at the workplace, and disseminate and communicate Click2Move knowledge, providing opportunities for the replication of the project strategies and experience across Europe.

Outputs

• 1 international collaborative workshop for sport professionals: collaborative development of a practical model, the Green League Model, to promote outdoor sports activity as a means of educating on environmental issues.
• 8 Nature’s 4 Elements Sport Events: sport events inspired by 4 natural elements to promote sport’s practice while passing on a common environmental sense.
• Green League’s Local Tournaments: mini-tournaments of team sports and relay races that combine sport with environmental actions.
• Green Champions Campaign: awareness raising campaign to promote the role of sport in enhancing environmental consciousness. ( video series & documentary).
• Green League Model.

Participatory and collaborative approach: Through an international collaborative workshop, participants and partners will not only gain new knowledge about green sport initiatives and approaches, but also exchange experiences, expectations, values and questions with a view to drafting a Green League model to be replicated at EU level by other professionals and amateurs from the sport sector. 

Experiential learning in and through nature: For the Nature’s Four Elements sport events, sport professionals/amateurs, young people and their families, as well as other participants interested in taking part, will reflect on how sport impacts on the environment and the possibility of shifting its influence towards increasingly sustainable means. During 8 local events, participants will reflect on their personal relationship with natural ecosystems, learn about their function and needs, and reflect collectively on how they can reduce their environmental impact.

Learning-by-playing approach: For the local tournaments on sport for the environment, clubs and young athletes participating in local sport and environmental competitions will have the opportunity to directly learn the importance of respecting the environment while challenging each other in team competitions, and in an environmental relay race. While their attention will be focused on winning the competitions, the innovative scoring system, whereby points will be allocated based on environmental and sporting achievements, will ensure that they also learn that protecting the environment can be fun and inspiring. 

Sport communities’ endorsement: the methodology behind the design and implementation of the Green Champions campaign is based on the direct involvement of both the popular athletes and the local communities of players involved in Green League activities throughout the project. This will ensure that the values and messages behind the project are communicated from the sporting community to the sporting community, maximising its impact in the form of video and photo messages in the form of a ‘call to action’ via social media and the Green League website. 

Art and visual storytelling: Through Nature’s Four Elements sporting events, Zines will be developed as a means of both documenting sporting events and widely disseminating Green League’s messages. Participants of the sporting events will contribute indirectly to the content of the zines during the moments of group reflection and exchange of ideas, but also by collecting symbolic materials (feather, litter, etc.) found during their outdoor experience that can be reused in a creative way in the zines.