Tábua is a municipality in Portugal with around 2,700 inhabitants located in its seat village and 11,742 across its 11 parishes. It has a diversified economy including furniture manufacturing, textiles, food, and metals. The municipality promotes physical activity through a network of 7 sports facilities and various programs. These facilities and programs aim to encourage sports participation and healthy lifestyles across different age groups and abilities. Around 14.2% of the resident population, or 1,668 people, practice sports regularly through the municipality's sports associations and facilities.

2. Tábua
Tábua is a Portuguese village in the District of Coimbra, with about 2,700 inhabitants. It is the seat of a municipality with 199.79 km ² of area and
11.742 inhabitants, subdivided into 11 parishes.

3. TábuaOne of the municipalities of the district of Coimbra and the region with the highest employability rate of the population.
To the furniture industry, one of the largest employers and exporters, but also to companies in the textile, food and metal-mechanical sectors
there.

4. Tábua
Between stunning landscapes and nature's attractions, there are also important buildings that attest to the richness of our historical and cultural
heritage. Venture through rivers and streams that give the landscape an odd beauty and the discovery of several trails and places of interest.
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6. Equipment Network
The Municipality of Tábua has a diversified set of sports equipment, with the aim of providing citizens with the generalization of physical activity, as an
essential tool for improving physical condition, quality of life and health.
Encouraging the integration of physical activity into daily living habits, as well as the adoption of active lifestyles, involves the constant improvement of
conditions for the development of projects to encourage regular physical activity, as well as hosting large national events and international organizations.
The Municipal Sport Equipment Network was built in a sustainable way, being constituted by 7 municipal infrastructures that aim to respond to the needs of
the population, namely:
- Municipal Center of March and Race;
- Municipal Pools;
- Municipal Stadium;
- Municipal Gymnasium;
- Board Multipurpose Pavilion
- Municipal Sports Hall of Candosa;
- Municipal Sports Hall of Midões.
Citizens, clubs, associations and other private entities may access the sports equipment network through the Occasional Free Practice and Regular
Practice, defined by sports season.

7. The Municipal Center of Run and Walk of Tábua, inaugurated on December 8, 2013, intends to invigorate the practice of the walking and running, in
the county of Tábua, creating for this purpose a space where specialized technicians make the physical evaluation and prescription of physical
exercise according to the goals and capacities of each practitioner.
This physical practice, with accompaniment by specialized technicians, will focus on the health promotion component and healthy physical habits
and practices, as well as a social component through activities that promote the contact between the center's practitioners, the general population
and also practitioners from other centers.

8. The Municipal Swimming Pools of Tábua were inaugurated on February 28, 1997, in order to respond to the needs and expectations of the
population, regarding the provision of sports venues.
Due to its technical characteristics, it is considered a recreational and formative sports facility, suitable essentially for recreation activities, initiation
and training in aquatic activities. It can be used in the context of the informal activities of free use and through a varied set of activities with technical
orientation.

9. The Municipal Stadium of Tábua is an infrastructure dedicated to the realization of sporting events at the highest level while allowing the
development of activities in the leisure, recreation, training and competition area, being a privileged space to achieve the objectives for which it
was designed.
This infrastructure, inaugurated on December 8, 2001, was designed mainly for soccer practice and aims to respond to one of the main needs felt
by the citizens in terms of sport. In fact, the practice of football has gained considerable importance at the level of society, not only by the number
of practitioners involved but also by the number of spectators it drags, which is why it has a seating capacity of 3500 seats for the public.

10. The Municipal Gymnasium of Tábua, inaugurated the 13 of October of 2013, made an important contribution for the sport development of this
municipality.
Its purpose is to provide its users with a set of physical activities in order to improve their physical and mental condition, as well as to promote the
quality of life of citizens, helping to prevent any diseases or health problems inherent to the sedentary lifestyle.

11. The Multipurpose Pavilion of Tábua, inaugurated on June 16, 2009, is a municipal building that is designed to hold various events, namely, sports
activities, industrial fairs, commercial, performing shows and other events of interest to the region .
The Multipurpose Pavilion of Tábua is a privileged place for trade shows, fairs and concerts, and can also be used as a large hall for conferences,
congresses, exhibition centers and even banquets. In addition, this space allows the practice of a wide variety of sports, namely: Handball,
Basketball, Volleyball, Futsal, Badminton, Tennis, Gymnastics, among others.
The polyvalence of this pavilion is essential for the region, and has the great advantage that all these events can be assembled and disassembled
in very short periods of time, thus allowing a very diversified use in the space occupation.

13. Inaugurated on August 13, 1999, the Municipal Sports Halls of Candosa and Midões are two municipal equipments capable of a multiplicity of
uses of a sporting, playful and competitive nature, destined to the whole population, regardless of their age, state or category partner-cultural.
These infrastructures are dedicated to the provision not only of sporting activities and well-being, but also for the accomplishment of occasional
events of a playful and cultural scope, among others, always compatible with the characteristic of the space.

14. The elaboration of Municipal Physical Activity Promotion Programs, adjusted to Tábua reality and whose strategic intervention plans translate into
an increase in the practice of physical activity in everyday life, should be based on the close and consistent collaboration between public and
private agents and such as the conjunction of the guidelines of the "National Physical Activity Plan".
The Municipality of Tábua being aware that the sedentary lifestyle increases morbidity and mortality and reduces the quality and the life time,
proceeded to the implementation of Municipal Programs of Promotion of the Physical Activity in order to intervene and implement basic measures
that, in the medium and long-term, effectively combat this problem and decrease the percentage of the sedentary population.
The implementation of these programs, whose main objective is to help people to adopt healthy lifestyles, is based on the European guidelines for
Physical Activity, and in view of the reality of the various areas of action mentioned in the National Physical Activity Plan, namely In SPORTS,
HEALTH, TRANSPORT / URBANISM / ENVIRONMENT / SAFETY, LABOR and SOCIAL SECURITY, also involving the recommendations of the
area of ​​action EDUCATION, within the scope of the Program of promotion of healthy living habits and physical activity in Education (Physical
Education - School) and the Sports Physical Activity Program (CEA - Primary school).
Physical Activity Promotion Program

15. Municipal Programs for the Promotion of Physical Activity:
- Cycling;
- How to Stay in Shape;
- Sports Holidays / Sports Moments;
- Sports Promotion for Sports Associations;
- Gym Kids;
- Active Mornings;
- Senior Movement / Senior Wave.
National Physical Activity Plan :
- Promotion of healthy living habits and physical activity in
Education (Pre-School);
- Physical activity program (CEA - Primary school).
International Projects / Programs :
- Now We Move (Move Week);
- ERASMUS + Desporto (DO-U-SPORT?).
Objectives:
- Sensitize the population to practice physical exercise, as a means
of promoting well-being, health and quality of life;
- Encourage social interaction as an indispensable social value,
promoting intersectoral dialogue;
- Contribute to the promotion of a policy of Sport for All, promoting
and encouraging its regular practice by the entire population;
- To facilitate the access of the "Senior" population to the practice of
physical and sporting activities, pedestrian walks, meetings, among
others;
- To promote a greater dynamics in the associations, making
profitable the available resources in favor of the community and the
service of Sport.

16. The Municipality of Tábua intends to invest in the development of an eclectic sport culture and permanent dynamics, stimulates the organization of
national and international sports events, based on the economic and demographic reality, as the objective of enhancing the sporting offer, as well
as placing Tábua in new sports events and adjusting to new sports trends.
Monetization and full utilization of the network of municipal sports equipment, namely the Multipurpose Pavilion and the Municipal Stadium, and
the recognition of the results they present, the people who work in their daily life to allow others to practice sports, as well as Commitment and
dedication of the various sports agents in pursuing the incentive to practice sports are other areas of investment.
EVENTS AND INITIATIVES

17. The Municipality of Tábua with its 11742 inhabitants, presents a value 14.2% of its resident population to practice regularly Physical
Activity (1668).Population – 11742 inhabitants.
Resident population to practice regularly - 437 + 681 + 550 = 1668
NUMBER OF FEDERATED ATHLETES e INATEL (total) – 437
SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS OF TABUA
ACADEMIA PORTUGUESA DE KENPO E ARTES DE COMBATE – 35
GRUPO DESPORTIVO TOURIZENSE – 135
GRUPO DESPORTIVO TABUENSE – 122
COMISSÃO DE MELHORAMENTOS DE PERCELADA – 16
COMISSÃO DE MELHORAMENTOS DE MOURONHO – 17
GRUPO DESPORTIVO VASCO DA GAMA – 20
VOLEIBOL CLUBE DE MIDÕES – 10
CENTRO MUNICIPAL GIRA VOLEI – TÁBUA – 38
CENTRO MUNICIPAL GIRA VOLEI – MIDÕES – 22
TÁBUA BASKET – 12
NUMBER OF NON FEDERATED ATHLETES (total) – 681
CASA DO POVO DE TÁBUA (Ténis de Mesa) – 20
CASA DO POVO DE MEDA DE MOUROS (Trail) – 10
MOVIMENTO / ONDA SÉNIOR – 200
GINÁSIO MUNICIPAL – 144
PISCINAS MUNICIPAIS (EMNT/AQ) – 224
PISCINAS MUNICIPAIS (1.º Mergulho) – 25
ACADEMIA SÉNIOR – 32
CENTRO MUNICIPAL DE MARCHA E CORRIDA DE TÁBUA – 21
GYM KIDS – 25
NÚMERO DE ATLETAS NÃO FEDERADOS
Curriculum Enrichment Activity (total) – 550
CEA (Physical Education) – 170
CEA (SPORTS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY) – 380

18. So far, three activities have been carried out:
- Fishing and global warming – 15th of August;
- Outdoor Fitness - Obesity / Heart problems – 11th of October;
- Yoga and Self Awareness – 12th of November.

19. The activities began in August with fishing and global warming, where participants could contact with
fishing practice without death, as well as being aware of the implications of global warming, particularly its
implications for the development of fishing.
In this first activity we had the collaboration of a local company, Carpodrome, which provided the space
for fishing, technicians who guided the participants and material for fishing.

20. This activity was carried out in an open-air gymnasium recently inaugurated in one of the parish of the
municipality of Tábua (Póvoa de Midões).
The activity counted with the participation of students from the kindergarten and the local nursing home
during the afternoon, who made their physical assessment and then did their activity, experimenting with
the different equipment.
At the end of the afternoon the activity counted on the participation of the remaining population, who were
physically evaluated before participating in the planned ones using the existing equipment.

22. Activity carried out in the Pavilion Multiusos de Tábua.
This activity had little adhesion due to the complicated moment that is lived in the county due to the
tragedy of the forest fires.
This activity will be held again on April 8, 2018, especially at the request of some people who said they
could not go but liked to try.

23. SPORTS AND TOURISM PROMOTION
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24. Thank you!