IMPAQT

Improving Physical Activity policies and their impact on health equity

IMPAQT stands for ‘IMproving Physical Activity policies and their impact on health eQuiTy’ and it is set to generate ground breaking knowledge and action in physical activity and public health.

IMPAQT is an innovative project focusing on enhancing #HealthEquity in physical activity policy development and monitoring.

IMPAQT is based on scientific research as well as the involvement of #policymakers, #experts and #citizens through a co-production approach in six European countries Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Ireland.

The 1.68 million project is led by Professor Catherine Woods, Director of the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre, a Health Research Institute priority area in the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

This project received funding from Ireland, Health Research Board: Poland, National Centre for Research and Development; Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research; Netherlands, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development; Romania, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding; Lithunia, Research Council of Lithuania under the umbrella of the Partnership Fostering a European Research Area for Health (ERA4Health) (GA N° 101095426 of the EU Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme).