Neighborhood Sport Resources
Intellectual Output 2
Manifesto
The NEXT Project aims to establish and run a broad thematic network of actors interested or potentially interested in applying or promoting the methodology. We share with you a document declaring the aims, goals, principles and milestones of the forming network.
Intellectual Output 3
NEXT Sport Toolkit
The NEXT Sport Toolkit includes a collection of good practices and country analyses from the project`s partners' countries. It helps to set the foundation for the development of guidelines and tools aimed at grassroots sport organisations to build your staff and volunteers' capacities to engage sedentary people in physical activities in common or public spaces in the neighborhood environment.
Intellectual Output 4
NEXT Sport Capacity Building Program
Capacity Building Program is a focal point for laying the foundations of the NEXT Sport methodology, based on proximity sports in the neighborhood. The work of the researchers of the partnership focused on already well documented case studies to explore their strengths, barriers and methods used, choosing the most effective and analyzing their characteristics.
Intellectual Output 5
Pilot Events/Impact Assessment
Once the partners’ staff are properly trained, the next step will be to implement pilot events to test the approach proposed, as well as elaborating in a handbook containing the methodological guidelines that will be useful to transfer it. The objective of the pilot test will therefore be to test the efficacy of the methodology described in the toolkit, evaluate strengths and weaknesses, analyse the impact on health and social effects generated by the territorial experiences, through an ex-ante, in itinere and ex-post analysis that will lead to the identification of key factors for a successful practice transferable in every context. The descriptive handbook of the NEXT Sport adapted methodology will be structured in various sections, which will gather national context analysis and information on national housing systems, best practices identified, different tools developed within the project, from the training ones to the operational ones, including research and survey tools, stories from the local pilot, a glossary, tips and recommendations.
Intellectual Output 6
Policy recommendations
Recommendations will be created in order to disseminate the project results and advocate towards policy makers and relevant stakeholders. They will be addressed to policy makers, mostly on national and European levels, institutional and civil society representatives in the area of sport, health, housing, social inclusion, and the struggle against inactivity with the aim of bringing successful results and evidence to the table and thus hopefully influencing the policy agenda regarding promotion of physical activity among the inactive population. The output also represents an opportunity to address to policy makers recommendations on measures to be taken to favour the endorsement and the application of NEXT Sport as a model of public health enhancement and to present the relevant potentialities of such a model in terms of impact and replicability in other contexts, and transferability to other environments.
Intellectual Output 2
Manifesto
The NEXT Project aims to establish and run a broad thematic network of actors interested or potentially interested in applying or promoting the methodology. We share with you a document declaring the aims, goals, principles and milestones of the forming network.
Intellectual Output 3
NEXT Sport Toolkit
The NEXT Sport Toolkit includes a collection of good practices and country analyses from the project`s partners' countries. It helps to set the foundation for the development of guidelines and tools aimed at grassroots sport organisations to build your staff and volunteers' capacities to engage sedentary people in physical activities in common or public spaces in the neighborhood environment.
Intellectual Output 4
NEXT Sport Capacity Building Program
Capacity Building Program is a focal point for laying the foundations of the NEXT Sport methodology, based on proximity sports in the neighborhood. The work of the researchers of the partnership focused on already well documented case studies to explore their strengths, barriers and methods used, choosing the most effective and analyzing their characteristics.
Intellectual Output 5
Pilot Events/Impact Assessment
Once the partners’ staff are properly trained, the next step will be to implement pilot events to test the approach proposed, as well as elaborating in a handbook containing the methodological guidelines that will be useful to transfer it. The objective of the pilot test will therefore be to test the efficacy of the methodology described in the toolkit, evaluate strengths and weaknesses, analyse the impact on health and social effects generated by the territorial experiences, through an ex-ante, in itinere and ex-post analysis that will lead to the identification of key factors for a successful practice transferable in every context. The descriptive handbook of the NEXT Sport adapted methodology will be structured in various sections, which will gather national context analysis and information on national housing systems, best practices identified, different tools developed within the project, from the training ones to the operational ones, including research and survey tools, stories from the local pilot, a glossary, tips and recommendations.
Intellectual Output 6
Policy recommendations
Recommendations will be created in order to disseminate the project results and advocate towards policy makers and relevant stakeholders. They will be addressed to policy makers, mostly on national and European levels, institutional and civil society representatives in the area of sport, health, housing, social inclusion, and the struggle against inactivity with the aim of bringing successful results and evidence to the table and thus hopefully influencing the policy agenda regarding promotion of physical activity among the inactive population. The output also represents an opportunity to address to policy makers recommendations on measures to be taken to favour the endorsement and the application of NEXT Sport as a model of public health enhancement and to present the relevant potentialities of such a model in terms of impact and replicability in other contexts, and transferability to other environments.
Partners
The NEXT - Neighborhood Sport project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the author (UISP), and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.