LEGAL NOTICE

Disclaimer

The entities and institutions of this project maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its initiatives and European Union policies in general. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them.

However the institutions of Sprinters project accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site.

This information is:

•of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity;

•not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date;

•sometimes linked to external sites over which the institutions services have no control and for which the Sprinters entities assumes no responsibility;

•not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional).

Please note that it cannot be guaranteed that a document available on-line exactly reproduces an officially adopted text. Only the Official Journal of the European Union (its printed edition, or since 1 July 2013 its electronic edition made available on the EUR-Lex website), is authentic and produces legal effects.

It is our goal to minimize disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The institutions accept no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.

This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the institutions of Sprinters project in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national law nor to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under that law.

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Where prior permission must be obtained for the reproduction or use of textual and multimedia information (sound, images, software, etc.), such permission shall cancel the above-mentioned general permission and shall clearly indicate any restrictions on use.

Personal Data Protection

The institutions of Sprinters are committed to user privacy.

The policy on “protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions” is based on Regulation (EC) N° 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000.

This general policy covers the European Union’s family of institutional Web Sites, within the eu domain.

Although you can browse through most of these Web Sites without giving any information about yourself, in some cases, personal information is required in order to provide the e-services you request.

Web Sites that require such information treat it according to the policy described in the Regulation mentioned above and provide information about the use of your data in their specific privacy policy statements.

In this respect:

•For each specific e-service, a controller determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data and ensures conformity of the specific e-service with the privacy policy;

•Within each Institution, a Data Protection Officer ensures that the provisions of the Regulation are applied and advises controllers on fulfilling their obligations (see art. 24 of the Regulation);

•For all the Institutions, the European Data Protection Supervisor – PDF (234.10 KB) will act as an independent supervisory authority (see art. 41 to 45 of the Regulation).

The European Union’s family of institutional Web Sites, within the eu domain, provides links to third party sites. Since we do not control them, we encourage you to review their privacy policies.

Information contained in a specific privacy statement.

A specific privacy policy statement will contain the following information about the use of your data:

•What information is collected, for what purpose and through which technical means the EU collects personal information exclusively to the extent necessary to fulfil a specific purpose. The information will not be re-used for an incompatible purpose;

•To whom your information is disclosed. The EU will only disclose information to third parties if that is necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose(s) identified above and to the mentioned (categories of) recipients. The EU will not divulge your personal data for direct marketing purposes;

•How you can access your information, verify its accuracy and, if necessary, correct it. As a data subject you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on legitimate compelling grounds except when it is collected in order to comply with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or is to be used for a purpose for which you have given your unambiguous consent;

•How long your data is kept. The EU only keeps the data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing;

•What are the security measures taken to safeguard your information against possible misuse or unauthorised access;

•Whom to contact if you have queries or complaints.

How do we treat e-mails you send us?

Many web pages on have a “Contact” button, which activates your e-mail software and invites you to send your comments to a specific functional mailbox.

When you send such a message, your personal data is collected only to the extent necessary to reply. If the management team of the mailbox is unable to answer your question, it will forward your e-mail to another service. You will be informed, via e-mail, about which service your question has been forwarded to.

If you have any questions about the processing of your e-mail and related personal data, do not hesitate to include them in your message.

Sprinters is a transnational European project which is coordinated by the municipality of Cullera and financed by the European Union and Erasmus+. The transnational association is composed of institutions, managers of protected natural areas and sport organizations of different European countries. Spain, Italy, France, Bulgaria and Latvia.

The European program wants to promote sport in protected natural areas, because the practice of sport has become an integral value for the lives of millions of citizens and is an important aspect of the individual and collective quality of life. Sport is a fundamental right and it must be accessible to all of us, according to the aspirations and abilities of each person.

The main partners of the project are: the municipality of Ponza (Italy), the municipality of Mersrags (Latvia), the European Center of Innovation, Education, Science and Culture (Bulgaria), the Polisportiva Dilettantistica Ponza (Italy) Gipacor (France) and the municipality of Cullera (Spain). It is worth highlighting the participation of the Universidad de Valencia as scientific partner of the project.

The program has been successfully evaluated by the European Commission, which has granted  the 80% of the total cost of the project 383.631,81€. It will last for two years.

The main objective that the project wants to achieve is to involve people to carry out physical activities in protected natural areas. Moreover, we want to reach two specific objectives:

1º The development of the sport management in natural protected areas. This will allow the constitution of a lasting system of spontaneous sports activities.

2º The promotion of the economic dimension of sport, due to the creation of new startups related to the field of sports and natural areas.

The European added value in the implementation of the project at community level will be considerable. Through the creation of an European network, Sprinters will allow the comparison of the institutions and sports associations in order to examine the influence of outdoor sports in protected natural areas and the creation of an inclusive sports policy.

The SPRINTERS Observatory

Its mission of is to contribute to improve sport governance in protected areas so that sport becomes not only a benefit to the individual and collective wellbeing, but a development resource that contributes to create more active, responsible, prosperous and sustainable local communities.

For achieving these tasks, a series of indicators has been developed to make possible an objective analysis of the impact of the four different sport activities (running, Nordic walking, mountain bike and canoeing) which have been carried out in selected natural areas of partners’ territories. The indicators have been distributed in eight different categories:

• Physical environment
• Biological environment
• Cultural heritage
• Participation
• Organisation
• Socio-economic impact
• Diffusion
• Environmental awareness

The list of them can be consulted in this webpage, where it is also shared the values achieved in the different competitions realized by partners. The conformation of this list ensures the comparison between the different territories.

In addition to the access to the collection of the created indicators, it can be consulted the analysis and processing of generated information. This analysis is important to assess the impacts and the benefits of sports activities in protected natural areas.

It is also presented some graphics representing the values achieved during the running of the project.