Samenvatting

The European Primary Physical Education Teacher Program (EPRIME) project sees a need and opportunity to help teachers to reimagine their PE lessons and PA offering at pre-school and primary school levels. With it, we seek to improve the quality of PE and the promotion of an active and healthy lifestyle from an early age across Europe. To reach this goal, 6 partners from 5 countries with 1 European network develop a teachers’ education program that empowers to better impact on the motor skills and psycho-social development of 4-to-7-year-old pupils. Plus, we provide applicable resources that support awareness-raising initiatives to better include children, parents, sport coaches and other stakeholders in our learning objectives. In order to ensure that the educational program is in line with the wishes and needs of the teachers we organized focus group sessions in the different partner countries, and set out to identify challenges and weak points at personal, organizational and system levels. Furthermore, we identified good practices within the different partner countries to use as assets for the EPRIME project. The results of the focus group sessions were categorized into four main themes, factors associated with (1) the teacher, (2) the PE class, (3) other stakeholders, (4) practical considerations.