IN THE NEWS
27 NOVEMBER 2022
On the 21st of November the EUFIT project was presented to more then 200 students in the Democritus University of Thrace.
Our partners shared insights for the EUFIT methodology, its mission and values.
The students were encouraged to try out the exercises and techniques and share their experience.
ТHE FINAL TRANSNATIONAL EUFIT MEETING WAS HELD IN SOFIA
21 OCTOBER 2022
In total 21 participants, representing all project partners, took part in the fourth and final transnational meeting of the EUFIT project (No. 622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP).
During the meeting the outputs and products created in the implementation of the project were presented. Everyone from the partner organizations discussed the EUFIT digital platform and the implementation of the innovative training methodology. Discussions about the results and the evaluation of the project were also held.
The participants talked in details how each partner will present and disseminate the results in different national events within this and next year when the project ends.
MULTIPLIER ONE DAY NATIONAL SPORT EVENT “BEFIT” IN SLOVENIA
15 OCTOBER 2022
The multiplier one day national sport event “BEFIT” in Slovenia was held on the 22th of October 2022. The event is part of the EUFIT project (No. 622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP) and was hosted by MTB klub Kranj.
This project is a collaboration of 5 partnering organizations from Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
The main goal of EUFIT project is to promote physical activity and its importance to a broad target group of people. The project encourages and promotes methods for exercising during working time spend in front of the computer or indoors. It promotes physical activity and a healthy lifestyle despite all the obstacles.
During the event MTB klub Kranj crew presented the EUFIT project, digital platform on project webpage and training methodology how to avoid sitting diseases caused by sedentary and low activity lifestyle while working in offices, remote on different locations or at home.
The project videos with example exercises were streaming on projection screen and presented to audience. Branded items were also distributed to promote and remind about the EUFIT project.
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11 OCTOBER 2022
We're happy when we see the EUFIT metholodogy used in the best way possible!
Our partners from Pannonian Challenge held a small pop up event at an accounting office where they presented the EUFIT platform and showed the developed methodology.
A few words they shared with us: "We definitely had fun during our little demonstration and the exercises have been rated as really good by our ladies. We are positive they will continue to use them on a daily basis since this pop up brought smiles and warmed us up giving much needed energy boost."
08 October 2022
Today we are sharing with you three exercises you can do while you’re working on your desk. Take a “healthy” break and move around your muscles a little bit.
The plank is one of the best core exercises. Do it now!
Watch more here:
https://www.youtube.com/cha…/UCB8CVwL3xnixvVjGM0wy8uA/videos
IN THE NEWS
06 OCTOBER 2022
Sofia BEFIT was visited by more than 250 people
The event was held on the 25th of September 2022 and the EUFIT project platform and methodology were presented in details to more than 250 people. Each one received information about the EUFIT training methodology and was motivated to try the routine while they are working in the office or in their home offices. Project videos with example exercises were also shown to the audience.
The goal was to give the guests more information about EUFIT and what it stands for. Branded items were also distributed to promote and remind about the EUFIT methodology and platform.
The EUFIT project /622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP/ is a collaboration of 5 partnering organizations Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia. The main goal of EUFIT project is to promote physical activity and its importance to a broad target group of people. The project encourages and promotes methods for exercising even in front of the computer or indoors, as part of the busy working day and promotes physical activity and a healthy lifestyle despite all the obstacles. EUFIT aims to concentrate on the “sitting diseases caused by sedentary and low activity lifestyle” and how to avoid them.
IN THE NEWS
22 JUNE 2022
On June 16th we held an event where we presented the results of the EUFIT project (No. 622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP) that Pannonian is a part of.
We discussed the results of the EUFIT Survey and demonstrated the digital platform and exercise methodologies to 50 participants. We used this opportunity to include our volunteers in the event organisation as they are the future for development of sport.
Happy to promote the importance of physical activity and hopefully contribute to the social and mental well-being of people included in organisation of sport events such as coaches, trainers, tv production crew, marketing agencies, IT crew, accounting etc.
THE DIGIFIT PLATFORM
12 JUNE 2022
The DIGIFIT platform was discussed during the second project meeting in Croatia
The second transnational project meeting of the EUFIT project (622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP) was held in Osijek, Croatia on the 10th - 11th of June 2022, hosted by the BK “Pannonian” .
The meeting consisted of two days - 1 day meeting for discussion over the DIGIFIT platform and the EUFIT methodology and 1 day Steering Committee meeting.
Due to the numerous unexpected situations related to the consecutive lockdowns in the partner countries in 2021, the Consortium has speed up the working process in 2022. Later this month will be held the third transnational project meeting in Komotini, Greece since it is expected the digital platform to be finished along with the project videos and tutorials.
MULTIPLIER ONE DAY NATIONAL SPORT EVENT “BEFIT” IN GREECE
25 MAY 2022
MULTIPLIER ONE DAY NATIONAL SPORT EVENT “BEFIT” IN GREECE
25 MAY 2022
ON 20TH OF MAY A MULTIPLIER EVENT WAS HELD IN KOMOTINI, GREECE. THE EUFIT PROJECT /622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP/ IS A COLLABORATION OF 5 PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS BULGARIA, GREECE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA AND CROATIA.
THE EVENT WAS VISITED BY MORE THAN 50 PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTING DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, SPORT CLUBS, NATIONAL SPORT ORGANIZATIONS, UNIVERSITY TEACHERS, COACHES AND TRAINERS, COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES AND EMPLOYEES FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND ACTIVE WAY OF LIFE.
THE MAIN GOAL OF EUFIT PROJECT IS TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO A BROAD TARGET GROUP OF PEOPLE. IT ENCOURAGES AND PROMOTES METHODS FOR EXERCISING EVEN IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER OR INDOORS, AS PART OF THE BUSY WORKING DAY AND PROMOTES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE DESPITE ALL THE OBSTACLES.
WE ARE HAPPY THAT WE HAD A CHANCE TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINING METHODOLOGY!
IN THE NEWS
21 April 2022
How to Stay Fit While Working from Home
1. Sit properly
If you notice yourself slouching or slumping and later complain that your back hurts, you need to find a solution for that. Get a better chair or get a back strap that pulls your shoulder back avoiding you to create a hump.
2. Try using a Lumbar Support
The Lumbar support reduces the amount of lumbar flexion (rounding your lower back), which in turn reduces the amount of thoracic flexion (rounding of the upper back and neck).
3. Try some easy desk stretches and exercises
Follow EUFIT project for ideas
4. Get up and move around
It is very important to take a break in between work and just loosen up your muscles to avoid cramps and muscle spasms.
EUFITME /EUFIT Methodology/ is coming soon
18 January 2022
The core of the EUFIT project is an innovative training methodology for physical activity while working or spending time indoors /EUFITME/ which is a strategic planning document that identifies physical activity as a priority for EU citizens and contains actions aimed at raising awareness and increasing participation in physical activity anytime, anywhere and without excuses. The methodology includes easy to follow strategy and exercises to follow while working. It can encourage and coordinate the actions of a range of departments, organizations, educational institutes and different businesses to promote increased participation in physical activity.
18 November 2021
Moving or stretching is a buildable habit. For starters, you can set a timer to remind you to take a quick walk or stretch. If you’re pressed for time, there are even certain stretches you can do at your desk. Here are some ways to work out those computer kinks.
Remember to breathe normally throughout the stretches, and never hold your breath. With each stretch, you may find yourself more flexible. Don’t go further than is comfortable.
Triceps stretches
Raise your arm and bend it so that your hand reaches toward the opposite side.
Use your other hand and pull the elbow toward your head.
Hold for 10 to 30 seconds.
Repeat on the other side.
IN THE NEWS
4 November 2021
Don’t forget to stretch!
Did you know?
A review of stretching programs in workplaces found that stretching improved range of motion, posture, and provided stress relief.
Periodic workplace stretching may reduce pain by up to 72 percent. And some studies show that a bit of exercise in the workday can relieve both physical and mental stress.
While research on stretching in the workplace is still limited, a recent study found that rest breaks can minimize discomfort without compromising productivity.
In the next few posts we’re going to show you how easy you can add some stretching habits to your working day. Stay tuned!
22 October 2021
Too much sitting can be blamed for health ailments such as weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other chronic conditions. One (slightly alarming) study even found that people who sit all day have a 40% increased risk of dying.
While we’re not saying your job is going to kill you, it’s a good idea to take some simple steps to improve your health at work. An easy place to begin: Simply start to move your body a little more at your desk.
28 September 2021
ways to include sports activities in the workplace:
Create a No-Internal-Phone Day
Although office managers cannot do much about the need for workers to use their computers, they can stop them from using other technologies that are keeping them strapped to their chairs. Employers can choose one day a week to stop workers relying on their phones to talk to other staff in nearby departments. This would have to be implemented within reason, but it would mean workers have to get up and go and speak with other staff at their desks.
Step Counter Challenges
One easy and fun way to get the whole office involved and more active is to introduce step counter challenges. They are universal now, with so many offices providing this in-house challenge between workers to find out who is the most active. You could even offer a prize for the winner such as an extended lunch break or extra holiday.
IN THE NEWS
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21 September 2021
ways to include sports activities in the workplace:
Choose Sporty Team Building Training
One easy and fun way to get the whole office involved and more active is to introduce step counter challenges. They are universal now, with so many offices providing this in-house challenge between workers to find out who is the most active. You could even offer a prize for the winner such as an extended lunch break or extra holiday.
Create a Mindfulness/Yoga Room
Work is one of the biggest causes of stress in our lives and deadlines can quickly get on top of us and harm productivity. By creating one of your unused office spaces and making them into a yoga or mindfulness room, you can invite workers to do simple exercises together on their lunch breaks. Or ask professional yoga teachers to deliver sessions during worker
14 September 2021
Workouts Aren't Enough
In fact, it might sound dramatic, but the time you spend sitting in a desk is also undermining your workout time, as noted in coach Jeff Kuhland’s article, How You’re Sabotaging Your Posture and Your Time in the Gym:
"You work out for an hour at the gym, then shower, eat, and head to work. You’ve passed the sixty-minute threshold so your body has absorbed a majority of the nutrients it’s going to from your meal. It starts to regenerate and heal. If you have poor posture with shoulders forward, a curve in your spine, and collapsed hips, your body is literally healing the micro-tears and micro-trauma into this poor position. You are actually healing in a shortened muscular state that remains static, slowly solidifying the new connections your body is making.
So don’t forget to get your frequent breaks while sitting on a desk!
7 September 2021
The mental benefits of filling your days with moving!
So what happens when you start to get more activity in and move away from the desk at regular intervals? Not only will your body improve, but your mindset and energy will be affected too. Productivity is known to rise dramatically when employees are able to get physical activity into their working day.
IN THE NEWS
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30 August 2021
For years, there has been only one way to work on a computer, and that was to use it by sitting on a desk. Our bodies need a variety of working postures to keep yourself feeling comfortable throughout your workday.
Here we highlight our top 3 setups
Upright sitting
Standing desk
Reclined sitting (couch/floor)
23 August 2021
Even if you're parked in front of a computer during the day, some simple changes can offset the health damage of all that sitting.
Here are 7 easy ways to add breaks to your working day
Walk over
Drink water
Regular breaks
Leave your desk for a walk or lunch
Stand up
Take the stairs
Limit screen time
August 2021
EUFIT new logo and brand identity
STAY TUNED!
16 August 2021
Did you know that even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline for an average of 11 hours a day?
Our bodies just aren't designed to function well with such low levels of activity — we all have to move more often than we do, or endure a variety of chronic health issues. Health experts often refer to too much sitting as the new smoking.
26 July 2021
If you’re like countless people, your job requires you to be seated at a desk for long periods of time. However, days spent primarily sedentary are putting people at risk of chronic pain and musculoskeletal disorders all of which impact long-term health and productivity.
To prevent chronic health issues and enhance your wellbeing, it’s important to implement healthy workplace habits that improve your posture at work through ergonomic principles.
15 July 2021
Going forward we definitely should rethink how many hours we spend sitting every day.
Whether it's time spent working (in the office, school, or home), driving, eating, or watching TV, the impacts of our sedentary lifestyles, often referred to as "sitting disease".
The main goal of “EUFIT” is to promote physical activity and its importance to a broad target group of people. The project will encourage and promote methods for exercising even in front of the computer or indoors, as part of the busy working day and promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle despite all the obstacles.
Making a Difference
9 July 2021
Did you know that small movements can have a significant impact on both your physical and mental health?
You can do most of them from the comfort of your home or work without changing into gym clothes!
Here are 5 easy ways to increase your movement every day
walk or ride your bike to work
walk around while talking on the phone
have walk-and-talk meetings
walk up and down the stairs instead of using an elevator
get a walking body
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY VERSUS EXERCISE
25 May 2021
Physical activity should not be mistaken with exercise. Exercise is a subcategory of physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposeful in the sense that the improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness is the objective. Physical activity includes exercise as well as other activities which involve bodily movement and are done as part of playing, working, active transportation, house chores and recreational activities. The EUFIT project /622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP/aims to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle despite all the obstacles as limiting factors and restrictions.
EUFIT PROJECT OFFICIALLY STARTED DURING THE FIRST TRANSNATIONAL MEETING
14 April 2021
The EUFIT project /622998 – EPP-1-2020-1-BG-SPO-SCP/ officially started during the first transnational meeting which was held online due to the epidemic situation on the 8th of April. Representatives of the 5 partnering organizations participated - Public Compass Association (Bulgaria), Balkan Tennis Union (Bulgaria), Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), Club of Intellectuals Association (Slovakia), Sport club MTB Klub Kranj (Slovenia) and BK Pannonian (Croatia).
The main goal of “EUFIT” project is to promote physical activity and its importance to a broad target group of people. The project will encourage and promote methods for exercising even in front of the computer or indoors, as part of the busy working day and to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle despite all the obstacles. EUFIT aims to concentrate on the “sitting diseases caused by sedentary and low activity lifestyle” and how to avoid them. The target groups are people between 25 and 50 year old in the active working ages
The project will make a research and will identify good practices in companies to stimulate the physical activities among their employees in lunch breaks or after work activities. Based on the survey, EUFIT consortium will elaborate an EUFITME - methodology for physical activity while working. The project will develop a digital platform DIGIFIT - open-source and easy-access platform, aiming to allow other sport experts to post and provide content, following a methodological framework from the consortium.
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October 11, 2019
Inovatívny prístup k profesionálnemu rozvoju
Pre mnohých ľudí je profesionálna realizácia neuspokojivá v dôsledku nevhodného výberu povolania alebo z dôvodu potreby pracovať čokoľvek, aby si zarobili príjmy. Iní čelia situáciu nedostatočnej kvalifikácie v dôsledku rozširovania súčasných technológií a trendov. Platí to najmä pre ľudí v strednom a staršom veku. Určite títo ľudia potrebujú vhodnú podporu počas procesu prispôsobovania sa trhu práce a motivácie na zvýšenie sebadôvery.
Toto je hlavný cieľ projektu „Pokryte svoje potreby, Objavte svoju kariéru “ (Cover your needs, Discover your career), ktorý bol vytvorený ako inovatívny prístup na podporu osobného a profesionálneho rozvoja. Tento prístup je založený na učení sa prostredníctvom skúseností a praxe a obsahuje tri nástroje odbornej prípravy na podporu školiteľov, facilitatorov, kariérových poradcov a odborníkov.
Kreatívne školiace a vývojové vybavenie
Sprievodca školením pre trénerov
Tieto tri nástroje pokrývajú celý proces vzdelávania dospelých, aby im pomohli pri osobnom a profesionálnom rozvoji a pri ich novom angažovaní sa na trhu práce.
Creative Kit je tlačený produkt v atraktívnom obale, ktorý má tri zložky: „Asociatívne karty“ na uvedomenie emócií a odrazov; „Plán cieľov“ navrhnutý ako vizualizácia horskej cesty, ktorá symbolizuje osobný a profesionálny rast a „šablóny koučovania“ s otázkami a konkrétnymi prípadmi profesionálnej reality.
Na pozadí mnohých digitálnych produktov a aplikácií je súprava Creative Kit nezávislá od digitálneho prostredia a špeciálnych technológií. Vďaka tomu je ľahko použiteľný v rôznych situáciách, je vhodný pre ľudí s rôznymi zručnosťami a je nezávislý od sektorov a oblastí, v ktorých sa používa. Nástroje odbornej prípravy sú určené na vzdelávanie a rozvoj ľudí starších ako 40 rokov vrátane dlhodobo nezamestnaných alebo nízkokvalifikovaných osôb. Sú však vhodné aj pre tých, ktorí plánujú svoju kariéru, ako aj pre ľudí, ktorí potrebujú zmenu svojej profesionálnej kariéry.
Atraktívny dizajn podnecuje účastníkov k dosiahnutiu ich cieľov pomocou metafory „lezenia na vrchol“, pre ktorú si musia naplánovať vlastné kroky a zdroje a predvídať možné ťažkosti. Týmto spôsobom je vizualizovaný celkový vývojový proces s individuálnym a skupinovým nastavením vlastných krokov pre rast prostredníctvom kritického a tvorivého myslenia.
Všetky tri produkty sú k dispozícii na webovej stránke projektu: www.careerdiscovery.eu
Projekt ‘Cover your needs, Discover your career’(2018-1-BG01-KA204-047980) je financovaný z programu Erasmus + a realizuje ho združenie Public Compass Association (Bulharsko), v spolupráci s Klubom Intelektuálov (Slovensko) a InterMedia KT ( Grécko).
Ďalšie informácie: publiccompass@gmail.com