During this summer Vilnius University Health & Sport Centre for the third time in a row organised an international project "University Summer Challenge 2018". More than one and a half thousand of students, professors, administrative staff and other employees from five different countries competed in this summer's Project. Participants from eighteen universities recorded their physical activity in the Project's platform, and by doing this, gained points for their universities.
Project's home country Lithuania was represented by eleven universities: Vilniaus Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius Universitety, Vytautas Magnus Universitety, Šiauliai University, Mykolas Romeris University, Klaipėda University, Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kauno Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences and Kaunas University of Technology.
This year, seven foreign higher education institutions also joined the Project: Kiel University University and Berlin University University (Germany), Keele University and Middlesex University (Great Britain), University of Lisbon and University of Porto (Portugal), and The Academic College at Wingate (Israel).
From June 1st to August 31st, almost two million active minutes have been registered in the platform www.active-summer.vu.lt! Lithuanian Sports University, like in 2017, became this years winner and the most active community of all the participants.
The Academic College at Wingate, which participated in the Project for the first time, took the second place, enthusiastically participating in the Project and gaining active minutes from the beginning of June.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University got the third place this year, giving its 2nd place in 2017 for Project's newbies.
Results of "University Summer Challenge 2018"
- Lithuanian Sports University
- The Academic College at Wingate
- Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
- Kauno Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences
- Šiauliai University
- Vilniaus Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences
- Vilnius Universitety
- University of Lisbon
- Mykolas Romeris University
- Middlesex University
- Kiel University
- Keele University
- Kaunas University of Technology
- Vytautas Magnus Universitety
- Berlin University
- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
- University of Porto
- Klaipėda University
"University Summer Challenge" is a lively Project, which aims to increase physical activity within academic communities in universities by challenging them into associating academic world with active lifestyle, and physical activity with fun.
Results of the Project are pleasing - the participants registered an average of 33 minutes of physically active time per day - this corresponds to the recommendations of World Health Organisation to be physically active for at least 30 minutes each day. "University Summer Challenge" will take place again next summer - we invite every university and its community to join and become more active! Platform of the Project: www.active-summer.vu.lt