Intensify cooperation between the policy areas responsible for promoting motor skills and physical education for children, in line with the recommendations of HEPA XG, in particular the sport, health, education, youth and transport sectors.

26. Calls on the Commission to initiate and support multi-disciplinary research in the field of sport and physical education, and to disseminate best practices; recommends that it devise basic principles for the pan-European survey on physical education policies and practices which the Council of Europe has defined as a priority;

24. Calls on the Member States and competent authorities to provide physical education teachers with training on gender issues by including this aspect in their respective curricula; calls for an end to the downgrading of the status of physical education as a subject and of the status of physical education teachers; stresses the importance of the possibility of sports coeducation for children at nursery and primary schools as well as the option of having either sports coeducation or single sex classes from secondary level onwards in order to encourage girls to try out sport ...[+++]s traditionally practised by men; stresses the need to explore alternative forms of physical activity, which could be practised on an optional basis, preferably outside compulsory state education;

19. Encourages Member States to modernise and improve their physical education policies, principally to ensure that a balance is struck between physical and intellectual activities in schools, to invest in quality sports facilities and take appropriate measures to make sports premises and sports curricula at schools accessible to all students, with proper regard being paid to the needs of disabled students; suggests that support be given for a wide range of sporting activities so that every s ...[+++]tudent has a real opportunity to participate in different sports; calls on the Member States to support the requirement to increase the time spent on physical education in schools and to promote the legal recognition of institutions and organisations which contribute to better integration of sports activities in schools and preschools; favours granting incentives to sports clubs having partnership agreements with schools, educational establishments, youth centres, and other community or voluntary organisations involved in lifelong learning projects;

26. Calls on the Commission to initiate and support multi-disciplinary research in the field of sport and PE, and to disseminate best practice; recommends that it devise basic principles for the pan-European survey on physical education policies and practices which the Council of Europe has defined as a priority;

24. Calls on the Member States and competent authorities to provide physical education teachers with training in the issue of gender by including this aspect in their curriculum; calls for an end to the downgrading of the status of physical education as a subject and of the status of PE teachers; stresses the importance of the possibility of sports coeducation for children at nursery and primary schools as well as the option of having either sports coeducation or single sex classes from secondary level onwards in order to encourage girls to try out sports traditionally practiced by men; stress ...[+++]es the need to explore alternative forms of physical activity, which could be practiced on an optional basis, preferably outside compulsory state education;