EYES 2004 Campaign

The key objectives of the education through sport campaign are to show the society, especially to the young people, that sport is very important in the development of the personality and social abilities, improving students and young people's quality of leisure, fostering cooperation between sport and educational institutions. The campaign in connection to EYES started on January 1, 2004.

The year of education through sport has given new impulses to education and sport and stimulated a rebirth of physical sport. Along with strengthening of sport's social role and increased global recognition, acquisition of know-how of education through sport as well as its adaptation brings real and inevitable necessity to formulate a personality for fiill-fledgedlife.

Secondary schools of Vilnius have taken an active participation among sports' games of the secondary schools. Vilnius city education and sports' institutions set to implement programs engaging children during summer; swimming training, etc. These programmes had a partial financial support from Lithuanian Government and Vilnius City.

One of the most impressive events was The children and youth festival "Move your body, stretch your mind" which took place on 1 May 2004 and was devoted to commemorate the Lithuania's accession to the European Union as well as Education through Sport 2004. On that day different sport competitions, tournaments have been arranged in the parks of Vilnius.