Led by the Sport and Citizenship think tank, TAFISA and ICSSPE, PACTE aims to sensitize municipalities, Europe-wide, on the crucial role they can play promoting Health-Enhancing Physical Activity. Being a partner in this project, ECF is involved to incorporate active transport as a way to make cities more active.

PACTE (Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe) is a project that builds on the PASS project and is an attempt at translating DTM campaign into a European reality. The aim is to complement existing policy initiative directed at tackling sedentariness, inactivity and physical activity in Europe.
The focus of the project has therefore been on understanding the situation regarding physical activity in Europe, and especially the active transport part is very interesting to ECF and its networks.

PACTE will advocate and support the development of Active Cities and physical activity policies by:

• Conducting a Europe-wide representative survey of municipalities’ physical activity policies and practices 
• Creating a matrix for change for Active Cities
• Delivering a communication campaign targeting municipalities in Europe

   

The project is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Commission.

If you would like to learn more about the project or the ECF involvement, you can watch the video interview with ECF's Development Officer Loes Holtmaat and Maxime Leblanc, Head of European Affairs of Sport and Citizenship and Project Leader of PACTE here: