(L-R) Claude Meisch, Luxembourg's Minister of Education, Children and Youth; Georges Metz, Director of the National Youth Service.; Credit: MENJE

On Tuesday 3 March 2026, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Education, Children and Youth launched a programme offering children and young people alternatives to screens, particularly during the school holidays.

Minister of Education, Children and Youth Claude Meisch presented the programme at a press conference alongside the director of the National Youth Service (Service national de la jeunesse - SNJ), Georges Metz. Titled “MoVe – deng Vakanz, däi Sport” (MoVe – your holiday, your sport), the programme forms part of the ministry’s “Screen-Life-Balance” initiative.

“It is essential that children and young people once again increase real-life contact, meet, and share experiences together. MoVe represents a concrete measure that enables young people to move more and take part in collective activities outside the digital world,” underlined Minister Meisch.

Forming part of the ministry’s “Manner Ecran – méi beweegen, entdecken, erliewen” approach, which aims to help children and young people to find a healthy balance between the digital and real worlds by offering spaces and physical, playful and creative activities that encourage discovery, experimentation and enjoyment of movement away from screens, this project offers activities to children and young people aged eight to 23 and take place across Luxembourg, as well as occasionally abroad.

Currently the programme includes around 50 activities divided into 3 formats:

  • sport camps organised over several days generally without overnight stays. Around 20 such activities currently feature in the programme. Participants can try team sports inspired by disciplines such as lacrosse and flag football as well as sports played on sand;

  • themed weeks offering half-day sessions over a full week with activities centred on a general theme such as dance, self-defence or North American sports;

  • one-off events that take place throughout the year including outside school holidays and aim to promote sports participation among young people through events such as the Nuit du Sport and the Summer Challenge.

The ministry pays particular attention to the diversity of the offer and seeks to introduce disciplines that are less present in traditional school sport, from acrobatics, dodgeball and mountain biking to trend sports such as parkour, roundnet, ultimate frisbee and calisthenics. The programme also includes wellbeing activities such as yoga and Zumba, as well as martial arts such as muay thai and jiu-jitsu.

According to the ministry, MoVe focuses on discovery, enjoyment and movement rather than performance. Young people can try different disciplines in a safe educational setting, meet others and practise physical activity without committing immediately to a club. The programme aims to encourage lasting interest in physical activity and regular sport participation.

The ministry noted that all activities are supervised by professional coaches and experts, with additional educational staff from the SNJ present during Sport Camps. If a young person wishes to continue a discipline after participating, the SNJ can, upon request, connect them with a sports club to facilitate regular practice. Participants can therefore try a discipline before potentially joining a club or association.

The SNJ already cooperates with around 30 associations, clubs, and federations and plans to further expand this network in the coming months.

Registration takes place online via the platform move.snj.lu, where the programme is regularly updated. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation costs €5 for a half-day activity and €10 for a full-day activity.