Hooray Project

Monaliiku is part of the Hooray Project. Hooray is co-funded by the European Union, it started in January 2023 and will finish in June 2025.

About Hooray Project:

In the past couple of years, the mental health of young people, particularly teenagers, has been declining. The HOORAY project aims to address this challenge by exploring the impact and positive influence physical activity and sport can have on improving the overall well-being and mental health of young people. 

Based on the EU Physical Activity Guidelines, HOORAY project team will collect good practices and develop educational resources and an online knowledge hub for physical education teachers, youth workers, coaches, parents and other personnel working with teens that want to put more attention on mental health and health enhancing physical activity, and prioritise participation and well-being of youth over performance, pressure and results.

Those resources and activities will target both, youngsters that are already physically active or enrolled in sport activities, and those who have been inactive and/or dropping out of sport. Young people will play a key role as we will take a closer look at physical activity through the lens of teenagers and explore how they perceive sport and its impact on their well-being. 

Guide for sport clubs, youth organisations and educational institutions

This guide incorporates recommendations, which aim to ensure that sport activities for youth are beneficial to their mental health, are enjoyable, accessible, and genuinely reflective of young people’s ideas in relation to sports.

The main insights forming the basis of these recommendations were gathered through an anonymous online questionnaire targeting teenagers aged 13 to 19. Each participating country and organisation gathered responses from at least 14 teenagers who engaged in regular physical activity outside their PE classes.

Find the guide here.

For more information about the studies and good practices in the project's website: Hooray project: active youth for mental health (engsoyouth.eu)

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