Directors and coordinators of various educational areas of ISERJ attend the presentation of Muuvit.

A productive week with people from several areas related to education and full of good intentions. The journey from Muuvit coordinator in Brazil, Maxwill Braga, in Rio de Janeiro, brought the Institute Share positive outlook on the expansion of the Finnish program in the state of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. With him were the co-founder of Muuvit and coordinator of international projects, Mika Merikanto, the executive manager of Share Luiz Fernando Nascimento - Nando - and vice-consul of the embassy of Finland Päivi Tuomi, who participated in a schedule of meetings held from 11 to 14 May.

This marathon meetings, happened to visit the state deputy in Rio de Janeiro and president of the education committee of the legislative assembly, Comte Bittencourt, in order to get support for disseminating the program in the region. The results began to appear and, after the conversation, there was a visit to the presentation of Muuvit the Institute of Education of Rio de Janeiro (ISERJ) with participation of directors of the institution and engineers from various fields of education. The ISERJ has been operating for 134 years and forms citizens from basic education to higher education.

Maxwill Braga, Mika Merikanto and Nando (from left. P / dir.) Meet with the education secretary of Rio de Janeiro, Helena Bomeny.

The meeting with the education secretary of Rio de Janeiro, Helena Bomeny, and other representatives, was also very fruitful. The expectations are great and there is a great possibility of program implementation in several state schools. Incidentally, the first step is already being given, since the Municipal School Finland will be the first Rio to join the Muuvit - coincidence or not, the name of the institution bearing the name of the country that created the program. It seems that his execution at the School Finland is going to happen.

Also meetings were held with representatives of MultiRio Portal, Rio 2016 and Amil (responsible for campaign to combat childhood obesity). "It was a really productive week. The work of the Consulate of Finland was essential to be able to schedule meetings with key stakeholders of Muuvit in Rio de Janeiro. Certainly, these meetings will bear fruit in 2015 and schools are already developing the adventure. With a good performance, we can already see the dream of adventure being developed across the Rio de Janeiro network in the year of the Olympiad, "he said optimistically, the Muuvit coordinator in Brazil, Max.

Nando, Mika Merikanto and Max (from left. P / right) are designed to consolidate partnership with the Rio 2016.

The Muuvit - an initiative of the Institute Share in the country - is a free virtual platform to encourage children to be more healthy and practice activities that involve movement. When exercising, children aged between 9 and 12 years, accumulate points to travel virtually through cities in South America, learning in a fun and interdisciplinary way: arithmetic, culture, human geography, tourism, health, cooking, languages, communication techniques non-violent and more. To learn more about the program click here.

Muuvit partners in Brazil: financial support of the Embassy of Finland to the United Nations Programme of support for Development (UNDP) and Sport for Social Change Network (REMS).

Photos: IC Disclosure.