Zusammenfassung

BACKGROUND: This project is aimed at unifying information about local infrastructure for leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in twelve European countries. This is due to the exchange of information about national strategies, policies, and mechanism at working meetings. This also includes their improvement with regard to social inequalities, inter-sectoral cooperation and participation. AIM: The aim of the third part of the IMPALA project is to summarize the results of the project into certain fundamental criteria that can be used by regional and local policy and stakeholders who can participate in planning, financing, building or managing of infrastructure for LTPA. METHODS: Based on identification of national strategies and policies (1st part of the project) as well as mechanisms (2nd part of the project), we identified examples of positive practice in each of the participating countries in the sphere of LTPA infrastructures. To find out this information we used qualitative methods, namely structured interviews, focus group method, and brainstorming among relevant people who were involved into the project on national levels. RESULTS: The main outcome of the project are the guidelines that are drawn up as a list of criteria for evaluation of contemporary situations within the sphere of policy, planning, financing, building and managing of LTPA infrastructures. Another integral part that follows evaluation criteria are proposals for improving the mentioned spheres regarding to equality of approaches, inter-sectoral cooperation and participation of concerned parties. The appendix contains examples of practice that were chosen within the project from all of the participating countries and represent a certain sphere such as planning, building, financing or management. CONCLUSION: The main results of the project are: relevance of infrastructure and public physical activity connectivity; searching for the possibility to widely use the existing infrastructure with regard to new trends and possibilities; and the ...