Promoting Green Strategies in Sport


The PROGRESS research has gathered information from all of the partners’ countries, through gathering best practices, surveys and interviews, the last two being targeted at parents and sports professionals that work with children. The Research Committee was formed with the initial task to produce a research design. A mixed method and multi-stage approach were employed. According to Corbin and Strauss (2008), document analysis enables a procedure for examining documents to understand their meaning within a particular context. Official documents such as strategies and laws served to outline political landmarks and policy and regulatory frameworks.

The goal of the research report is to shape the results of the project (events, app, policy proposal) in a direction that satisfies the needs of the community.

To meet existing requirements the PROGRESS project promotes parent-child outdoor physical activity in South-East Europe by utilizing new technologies and gamified activities. The project’s specific goals are as follows: 

• Developing a research study on best practices about educational activities promoting 

outdoor physical activity participation;  

• Conducting a field investigation of physical educators’, coaches’ and trainers’, and parents’ 

beliefs about how to improve parent-child interactions and, ultimately, promote outdoor 

physical activity participation;

• Creating evidence-based educational tools, including training resources, for physical 

educators, trainers, coaches, and parents;  

• Evaluating the usability and effectiveness of the educational resources in assisting physical educators, coaches, and trainers, and parents in promoting outdoor physical activity participation; 

• Creating and promoting a European public policy that redefines and improves parent-child interactions and encourages outdoor physical activity participation; 

• Designing and developing a specialized mobile app. The creation of a gamified model to encourage people to participate in physical activity by providing information and rewards for participation in outdoor physical activities is expected to boost the project’s outputs’ potential even further.


The research report can be found in the national languages of the partners (French, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Bulgarian)