Vitality Works
What are effective and appealing strategies to stimulate employees to move more and sit less? This is an important question that UM wants to explore and evaluate among her employees.
Therefore, Vitality Works (VW) offers employees the opportunity to become involved in promoting their own vitality. This means that employees, together with colleagues, can submit proposals for promoting their vitality at work. All submitted proposals are assessed by UM experts. The selected proposals are then translated in collaboration between the applicants and researchers from VW into an implementation plan.
First edition Vitality Works (2019): Get Active!
The theme of the first edition of VW (December 2019) was: Get Active! Twelve proposals to move more and sit less have been submitted. All proposals have been assessed and eight have been selected. The selected proposals focus on stimulating:
- to sit more actively by means of sitting balls, sitting pillows, etc.
- to use walking as an active break
- to take part in low-intensity activities such as table tennis, balance- and relaxation exercises, etc.
The implementation of the first VW proposals will take place from March 2020. Where necessary, VW provides financial support. Researchers from VW are also actively involved in monitoring and evaluating the implementation process. More information about the proposals will follow soon!
Later in 2020 a new edition of VW will be launched, with a new theme.
Questions or want to know more?
Please contact us at vitalityworks@maastrichtuniversity.nl