Articles about active school transportation

The Crown Princess Couple's foundation continues to support research

The Active School Transportation Project, which will motivate more children to walk or go by bike to school, has received continued funding by the Crown Princess Couple's Foundation. – It is an honour, says Anna-Karin Lindqvist, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Luleå University of Technology.

Active transportation can improve children’s health

Technology and involvement will be used to motivate young people to increase their daily physical activity. Today, about half of Swedish children walk to school and to their activities. Through a multidisciplinary project funded by Vinnova, researchers at Luleå University of Technology hope that to increase that to 80 percent.

Award to project for active school transport

The project has gotten schoolchildren in Luleå to cycle all year round, regardless of freezing temperatures and snowfall. Now, the project for active school transport has been appointed winner of the national innovation competition Cykel Plus Minus.

New research: That made Pokémon Go so popular

The game Pokémon Go has been lauded for promoting children's physical activity.
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology have studied the components that made the game so popular. According to the result it is not a competition – but cooperation.

The Swedish Crown Princess Couple's Foundation supports Active school transports

The Active School Transport Project is one of four projects awarded for the first time from the Crown Princess Couple Foundation. Each year, the Foundation allocates funding for projects that promote good health and strengthened community among young people and children in Sweden.

Pokemon Go's success factors studied

In July, Pokemon Go was down loaded 100 million times. Now, a research team will investigating what makes the game so popular, so they can use the knowledge in further studies of children's physical activity and gamification. Also how factors like winter and cold affect a game like Pokémon Go will be investigated.

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
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