OWS4KIDS - How to teach children non-swimmers or bad swimmers to swim in open waters?

- Objectives: on the track of the LEN program (the highest institution in the EU related to swimming and open water swimming) from 2017 ‘Learn to swim, prevent drowning’, the main objective of the project is to reduce the number of non-swimmer children in the EU Specific objectives: 1. Teach children to swim in open waters where the conditions for swimming are far more demanding than in swimming pools; 2. Through a public video manual enable non-professionals, usually parents, to teach their non-swimmer children to swim in less advantageous and unfavourable conditions than those in the pool; 3. In places by the sea, i.e. open waters, especially in places where swimming pools are not available, as well as tourist places, provide free swimming courses for children lasting at least 10 hours - Activities: The objectives will be achieved by creating and publicly sharing the video manual, based on video clips from the 2 sea swimming courses for children established by this project - People benefiting from this project are: primarily children, non-swimmers or weak swimmers, who will learn to swim thanks to the video manual or directly, during the 2 swimming courses provided in the project. Furthermore, similar free open water swimming courses, encouraged and disseminated by this project, will certainly be organized by other local communities and/or tourist offices on EU's seas, lakes or rivers coasts. It is therefore reasonable to expect that this organization of swimming courses for children in open waters will be accepted and proliferated by other EU communities which do not have a swimming pool, but only open waters with swimming possibilities. In the case of tourist places, this additional tourist offer is a win-win situation. Finally, at EU level, this approach certainly reduces the number of non-swimmer children, thus reducing drowning mortality. - Outputs: public video manual with video clips subtitled in English and 7 EU languages