On the 24 th of January 2025 in Vienna, Austria was held the first transnational INSPIRA project meeting. During the meeting the project cosortium – the coordinator University of Vienna (Austria), along with its partners tennis club “Lulin 6” (Bulgaria), Ace tennis center (Greece), Teniska Akademija Aerodrom (Republic of North Macedonia), tennis club Krško (Slovenia) and Space Research and Technology Institute (Bulgaria) discussed the responsabilities devision and the project timeline. INSPIRA (INclusive SPorts Innovative Resilience Advancement in tennis) project falls into Erasmus+ Sport priority “Encouraging healthy lifestyles for all”, focusing on the implementation of the Council Recommendation on health-enhancing physical activity and the EU Physical Activity Guidelines and the promotion of sport and physical activity as a tool for health.
The project joins 1 leading EU University, 1 national academy for science and four EU sports clubs to implement an intergenerational project (targeting people of ages above 10 to 60 years aged) through the elaboration, piloting, evaluation, and dissemination of a state-of-the-art European (EU) club-based model – INSPIRA Tennis Social Clubs for Health (TSCH) – based on the EU Sports Clubs for Health (ScforH) and Health-Promoting Sports Clubs (HPSC) approaches with a community social family-centered focus. INSPIRA project will attract community, tennis sports and health science experts along with AI, big data and multimedia professionals to provide the high expertise needed in elaborating and sharing a brand new sustainable model of community tennis social clubs for health in Europe – INSPIRA TSCH.
The model will consist of 1 Social Tennis for Health Guidelines, 1 Tennis and Health literacy educational program, 1 intervention digital tool – FORWARD consisting of a platform and an app, including a matchmaking system – INSPIRATE and 1 measurement tool for health promotion at sports club level to transform the participating tennis grassroots clubs into the European community social clubs for health.