Integrating sustainability in athletes' dietary choices

The objectives of this project will be to support the integration of sustainable in sport nutrition. The project has 6 partners from 5 European countries. These include partners from Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Malta. The project will bring about four results:

Guidelines on Sustainable Diets for Athletes.
Online Training & Awareness Raising Programme for sports nutrition professionals, professional and non-professional athletes, and other sports professionals.
Digital Nutrition Education Tool.
Policy Recommendations for Integration of sustainability into National Dietary Guidelines and development of dietary guidelines for athletes.

Athletes have specific nutritional requirements depending on training intensity and volume, performance goals, and health status. This project comes to build on or complement activities and projects carried out by the partners (in nutrition, sport/fitness, training, environmental protection and sustainable development sectors), but it introduces the element of integrating sustainability into sport nutrition, which an innovative aspect for the organizations, the partners countries and the EU in general.