The project
Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon (EHPARP) aims at employing Pentathlon as a tool of promoting health-enhancing physical activity among the European youth and adult populations as well as providing dual career opportunities to Athletes in the individual disciplines forming part of Pentathlon practice who will be empowered as Coaches/Trainers in their disciplines and in comprehensive programs of Pentathlon for an adult and a youth audience.
The discipline of Pentathlon presents suitable opportunities for expanding young people’s participation in the positive health and psycho-social benefits of Sport. The discipline is an integral part of the Olympic movement and, most recently, has been one of the cornerstones of the Youth Olympics Games held in Buenos Aires between October 6th and 18th 2018.
Considered from the perspective of its health-enhancing benefits, Pentathlon provides a multi-dimensional benefit, as a combination of different Sport specialties, allowing the development and honing of diverse and interrelated skills and abilities in a coordinated and interplaying fashion.
Enhancing awareness and active participation in grassroots Pentathlon programs calls for a cooperation between Sport organizations, where the theoretical and practical input on the specific processes and challenges of Sport, and NGOs, which can complement the dimensions of outreach, attractively and educational impact on a wide audience of targets, from the youth to adults, through the input of non-formal learning techniques.
At the same time, the empowerment of local capacities of grassroots action with young people and adults in the context of Pentathlon programmes would find itself to be greatly enhanced by capitalizing on the existing resources provided by amateur Athletes in the different disciplines characterizing Pentathlon whose empowerment as Coaches/Trainers in a multidisciplinary endeavor as Pentathlon would contribute to their development as Athletes as well as introduce them to an opportunity in the realm of Dual Careers.
Target group
Young people
Aged 18-30 not practicing Sport and motivated to approach physical activity and Sport practice through Pentathlon.
Adults
Aged 31-55 who are not taking part in Sport and wish to approach Pentathlon as an instrument of physical activity and wellbeing/active ageing
Project activities
Considered from the perspective of its health-enhancing benefits, Pentathlon provides a multi-dimensional benefit, as a combination of different Sport specialties, allowing the development and honing of diverse and interrelated skills and abilities in a coordinated and interplaying fashion.
EHPARP includes the following activities:
