PAIN FREE

Project: PAIN FREE

Funding framework: European Program Erasmus+ Sport

Project Identification: 101133560

Implementation period: January 2024 to December 2025

Project Coordinator: Faculty of Health Studies - Croatia

Project Partners:

• L'Orma - Education, Sport and Social Innovation - Italy (It)
• Resource Centre for Health Promotion - France (Fr)
• Federation "Sport for All" - Bulgaria (Bul)
• European Platform for Sport and Innovation - Belgium (Bel)
• Independent Trade Union Confederation - FETICO

Project Objectives:

✔ To identify existing knowledge on back pain and develop an innovative method for the prevention and self-care of back pain.

✔ To develop an educational program on back pain to improve understanding of its origins and relevant skills, as well as a self-care strategy to manage it through physical activity and sport.

✔ To carry out training sessions on self-management of back pain by a professional group of sports operators, sports monitors and coaches, and medical experts in back pain.

Project beneficiaries:

Workplace participants: employees and employers

Professionals from Sport (operators, instructors, and trainers) and health sector: Medical experts, physiotherapists, occupational health experts.

Activities and expected Results:

1. Study on ways to foster a healthy lifestyle in workplaces and encourage physical exercise and sport that will improve health.
2. Design of a training program for the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases where users may obtain evidence-based knowledge on back pain prevention and self-management through physical activity and sport.
3. Development of an App with a compilation of digital contents on healthy living, physical activity, sport, and its relationship with the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases

A variety of events will take place at national and European level during the celebration of the annual EU Sport Week 2024 and 2025.