Horseback Archery Education for Sport Promotion

Project achievements in numbers- Horseback archery organisations participating in the Project – 5 (Poland, France, UK, Finland, Austria);- Number of workshops where participants acquired new skills, exchanged good practices and experiences, strengthened partnerships, experienced intercultural exposure integration - 5 planned workshops + 1 additional workshop which we organised during the kick-off meeting;- Number of trainers participating in learning activities – 15; - Greater mobility of trainers in this discipline - 15 trainers travelled to visit premises of other horseback archery clubs;- Numbers of workshop participants (workshops were conducted after the TPMs back at home countries) – 10-16 persons in each country, total of 71 persons that participated in the open workshops conducted by the ARCHed trainers- Number of people online reached with the Project using the grant and own resources - 1120 followers and counting;- Number of websites - 1; - Number of Facebook pages - 1;- An outline of a future compendium of horseback archery teaching methodology (an e-form) - 1- A network of cooperation between horseback archery organisations and clubs in different European countries and beyond - 5 + at least 3 clubs in each country where HBA already exists who learned about ArchED;- Number of events where we promoted horseback archery as a way to develop physical activity and counteract addictions outside of the Project - Kawalkada organised in 2019 - 6 International Championships in HBA (including the 2nd European HBA Championships), 5 Postal Matches, 7 friendly competitions and various twice a month workshops on HBA. Each partner in the Project organised a similar number of their own activities, with an element of ArchED promotion.- Number of events where we demonstrated beneficial effects of horseback archery on health, both physical and mental - throughout the entire 2019, apart from the Project workshops, each partner conducted their own workshops where the Project progress and partial results were promoted. We agreed that during each event trainers who participated in the Project and other trainers from their clubs assured that health aspects of HBA are mentioned, also in the context of sport medicine (preventing injuries). Thus we delivered this important message to 71 people (direct beneficiaries that participated in the workshop organised by each Partner at their premises)- Participant satisfaction (5 step value scale; mean = 4). Based on evaluations performed after each workshop, we are happy to report that the average satisfaction level was 5 (the trainers were very satisfied with with each workshop because they gained new knowledge and experience;- Self-assessment of acquired skills (80% of the maximum score); 93% of workshop participants increased their HBA skills by 84% as a vast majority of them were newcomers to whom the promotion of the sport was addressed. For 7% of workshop participants the workshop level was too introductory; they enjoyed it but improved their skills to a lesser extent: by 43%.- Trainers’ satisfaction (5 step value scale; mean = 4). Out of 15 trainers participating in the Project, 13 described their satisfaction at the maximum 5 and 2 at 4.