UISPactive

UISP – ITALIAN UNION FOR POPULAR SPORT

UISP is a national association born in 1948.

UISP is formally recognized by the Italian Olympic Committee as Sport Promotion Association, by the Italian Ministry of Interior as social assistance body and it is inscribed in the Italian Welfare Ministry official list of Italian social promotion organizations.

UISP is a non-profit organization which operates in respect of the existing laws and it is based on statute rules inspired to the principles of social active participation and in conditions of equal opportunity.

UISP is the association of all the individuals and collective bodies who want to be protagonists in the world of sport via direct practice, training experiences, events and projects.

UISP supports the values of sports against every form of exploitation, alienation, against doping.

It works for the wellness of all citizens, the values of human dignity, non-violence, solidarity among people and it cooperates with all the ones who share these principles.

Recognizing sport as a right of citizenship, as resource for integration, UISP engages itself to the promotion and diffusion – in sport as well as in social life through sport – of a culture of rights, environment respect and solidarity.

UISP promotes the educational value of sport in both individual and social growth.

UISP promotes active life styles focused on movement.

The Committee of Bologna boasts more than 50,000 members and it has distinguished itself in recent years as the vanguard national projects to promote physical activity for health (HEPA) through the implementation of innovative projects and a program of targeted communication for all citizens.

THE APP UISP ACTIVE

The application UISP ACTIVE promotes good health through movement pills in small doses (10 minutes) to be included in the daily routine and in the places where people live, work or study.

They are pills for endurance (fast walk, or slow run, or some other aerobic activity).

In the application there are 7 sections: banner – UISP informs – pace speed – my personal information – blisters – report – alarms.

In the section “my personal information”, among other things, there is a function to calculate the heart rate to the best of your health, and two procedures in order to do the pace test to the best of your health.

The blisters are weekly and they include 30 pills 10 minutes each ( to be ticked when you get them)

THE PROJECT “COME TOGETHER YOUTH EWOS 2016

The application UISP ACTIVE is an instrument of the project “Come Together Youth EWOS 2016 (for gathering young people within the 2016 Sports European Week).

Come Together Youth EWOS 2016 wants to organize an event in 6 EU countries to promote the slow exercise for health and raise awareness of young Europeans (aged 16-18 years) on HEPA and WHO Global recommendations on physical activity for health.

Main project’s components are training of sport organizations’ operators and physical education school teachers, education modules in schools, Ewos Sport Event.

Come Together is a slow sport event which consists of walking quickly or running slowly. It is a sort of ‘reversed match’ with a highly symbolic meaning because the teams, constituted by little groups with the same foot speed, will not leave so closely but will arrive all together, contrasting the traditional idea of one winner.