SANTE Handbook

Summary

SANTE supports the promotion of health enhancing physical activity within the framework of the European Commission’s preparatory actions on sport.

SANTE is an ambitious effort of 17 partners across Europe representing sport organizations, esteemed universities, businesses and local government. The partners have united their resources in the SANTE project to address and act upon the contemporary challenge of improving Europeans’ health. The partners are at different levels in their work with health-enhancing physical activity. Some have multi-facetted programmes and several of years of experience implementing them. Some have only just begun defining a strategy in the field. This diversity was an asset for the project as allowed many different starting points and perspectives in the best practice exchange.

SANTE features the following specific project objectives:

1. Promoting health enhancing physical activity with a starting point in sport organisations.
2. Engage national and local sport organisations from Europe in networking and best practice exchange with a view to qualifying existing and developing new initiatives.
3. Highlight and promote cooperation between sport organisations and business, schools, local governments, health organisations and others.
4. Establish partnerships and cooperation between international/European organisations and stakeholders in the field of health enhancing physical activity.
5. Collect, document and valorise examples of innovative cross-sectoral cooperation in health enhancing physical activity.
6. Prepare future actions in health and physical activity.