ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Circular 65 project, promoted by the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, through the Department for Sport and created in collaboration with Sport and Health, with the aim of spreading the culture of movement in the third age, promoting healthy lifestyles and enhancing sport as an instrument of prevention and improvement of psychophysical well-being. The initiative is aimed at Associazioni e Società Sportive Alettantistiche e ai Enti del Terzo Sector di settore sportive engaged all over the national territory in activities dedicated to over 65, group of population still very dynamic.
The goal is to promote the diffusion of motor practice through the activation of groups of walks and organized sports activities, capable of improving well-being, contrasting sedentaryness, promoting sociality and strengthening dialogue and integration between generations.
ASD, SSDs and ETS will be able to apply for a mandatory partnership of at least two other subjects. Projects must include the organization of at least five events within twelve months, to be carried out within the activities indicated by the Notice.
Applications must be submitted exclusively through the Sport and Health website by 16 of 18 September 2026. To accompany the interested parties in the preparation of the questions, on 3 September a webinar is scheduled open to all, dedicated to the presentation of the Public Notice, the Guidelines for reporting and the Guide to filling out the application.
“We often talk about the importance that teens and teens practice sports since school, because sport represents an extraordinary educational, formative and personal growth tool, but the value of the movement does not know age – says Abodi – With ‘Circle 65’ we want to pay the same attention to over 65, promoting active aging through sports practice. Moving in an organized and systematic way means taking care of yourself, your health, preventing and slowing down many pathologies, maintaining autonomy and quality of life, but also means creating relationships, fighting loneliness and strengthening the sense of community. Investing in sports for people of a certain age means investing in individual well-being and our communities. This project is also a contribution to sport in the Constitution.”.
For Marco Mezzaroma, president of Sport and Health, “with “Circolo 65′′′ we confirm our constant commitment to give concrete implementation to the vision of the Government and the Minister for Sport, promoting an active and inclusive lifestyle at every age. Physical activity is an extraordinary instrument of public health and a formidable social glue: intervening on the over 65 band means contrasting the sedentary and, at the same time, strengthening the social fabric of our communities by intervening on a growing anagraphic segment and that today, compared to the past, is very active and protagonist. The role of the basic sports world and the Third Sector is central in this challenge for capillarity and sensitivity. We invite all the realities of the territory to network, putting their passion at the service of the psychophysical well-being of citizens, of every age”.
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