Sport inspires us, challenges us. Watching the Dutch team play at the Paralympic and Olympic Games and seeing them break records, motivates people to become better at what they do. In sports and in everyday life.
Even more important: being active together with other people, outside or inside, is a lot of fun. You get to know other people and might learn new things. This could be during a stroll in the park with a colleague or during hockey practice with your teammates. Moving together is a good way to enjoy exercise.
During the year 2020, we became even more aware that moving is not only about fun and challenges. Being physically active is also really beneficial for your health. Staying healthy is extremely important in these times, in which we have to deal with the COVID-19 virus.
We are faced with the challenges of having to stay at home more often. That means we lose a lot of moments where being active just comes naturally, for example because we don’t travel to work anymore.
If there is an upside to this crisis, it is that we see a lot of innovations to make exercising and staying healthy available for everybody. It is important that we share these innovations, worldwide, to work together and inspire each other to reach the full potential of sports and exercise.
This Sportfolio showcase presents an overview of projects, brought together by the Knowledge Centre for Sport & Physical Activity Netherlands. Projects that showcase opportunities to join forces. We hope this overview will inspire many new and successful international partnerships.