First ALFAC transnational meeting

ULille hosted the first ALFAC transnational meeting from September 27th to 29th, 2022, in Lille, France. The partners had the chance to officially meet and present their ongoing and foreseen contributions to the project.

All the consortium was represented – the participants were:

Université de Lille (France):

• François Potdevin
• Léa Mekkaoui
• Angéline Nova
• Sophia Kandi
• Héloïse Blandin

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium):

• Kristine De Martelaer
• Eva D'Hondt
• Linde Van Droogenbroeck

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu (Poland):

• Marek Rejman
• Anna Kwasna
• Daria Rudnik

Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (Germany):

• Ilka Staub
• Tobias Vogt

Universidade do Porto (Portugal):

• Susana Soares

Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Natação (Portugal):

• Aldo M Costa
• Nuno Garrido
• Mário Costa

Viešoji įstaiga "Active Vilnius" (Lithuania):

• Mindaugas Vilius

Lietuvos plaukimo federacijos informacijos ir paslaugu biuras (Lithuania):

• Urte Mankiene

Fédération Nationale des Métiers de la Natation et du Sport (France):

• Denis Foehrle
• David Lelong

The topics addressed were:

• Presentation of WP1 – Management of ALFAC Project
• Presentation of WP2.1 - Creation of the test battery
• Presentation of WP2.2 – Build a European database
• Presentation of WP3– Aquatic Literacy Pedagogical Resources
• Presentation of WP4 – Quality management
• Presentation of WP5 – Dissemination
• Schedule of the 3 years together
• Presentation of WP2’s research questions (~ profiling idea)
• How to implement and evaluate isolated aquatic skills
• How to implement and evaluate the parcours
• How to implement and evaluate the perceived skills
• How to implement and evaluate psycho-social domain
• How to implement and evaluate cognitive domain
• Key mediating variables influencing AL

Those three working days full of exchanges and brainstorming were punctuated by team-building activities helping the participants better understand the feeling a child might have in a drowning situation.

This first transnational meeting was followed by the kick-off meeting of the project in Science Po Lille, hosting nearly 160 participants on-site and remotely over the world.