On the way towards health-oriented sport clubs in Hungary

Abstract

The National School, University and Leisure Sport Federation in cooperation with the University of Debrecen’s Athletic Club launched a social innovation project based on the Sports Clubs for Health (SCforH) approach. The title of the pilot project is „More than a club”. In the framework of the project, the partners aim to widen and develop the sport services of the clubs, highlighting the health-benefits of the sports; using their local and regional capacities, so that wider groups of the population will have access and benefit from the health-enhancing physical activities (HEPA). This will result regular HEPA opportunities provided by the club with the supervision of professional sport staff. The Sport Clubs for Health approach has been endorsed by the European Union and recommended to be implemented by the Member States in 2013. In this article the SCforH approach is presented.