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The project Run – Swim – Learn! In the Spirit of Pierre de Coubertin addresses a topic of education in and through sport in light of recent European policies. The project consortium developed a new programme promoting education in and through sport with special focus on skills development. It is composed of three elements RUN - SWIM – LEARN and held in the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin’s famous quotes on educative and social importance of the philosophy of Olympism.

The main outcome of the project is a performance portal consisting of two major parts - a database of sport results and an educational contest. Sports achievements focus on results of running and swimming, while the educational contest linked to a quiz for witty ones on sport values. An integral part of the portal is a handbook, which provides information about the project itself and how to enter the programme. A summary of the handbook was disseminated through flyers during various sport/educational/promotion activities of the partners within grassroot sport.

The project consortium intended to develop a follow up in terms of the Pierre de Coubertin Action Plan, accompanying document to the White Paper on Sport. Therefore, the project work focused on developing ideas about labelling schools “In the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin - EU sport friendly school” while sport clubs labelling similarly “In the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin - EU education friendly sport club”. Introducing a scheme how to award a European label to schools actively supporting physical activities in accordance with Pierre de Coubertin Action Plan was the greatest challenge of this application. The project consortium also proposed this project as a good practice project for all the EU Member States and the European Commission in accordance with requirements of the Erasmus + Programme.