The Council will launch a virtual league between Guipuzcoan municipalities to promote healthy ageing

Mendoza has stressed "the importance of promoting active life to live longer and better" and has stressed that "the integral well-being of people is one of the main objectives of the Council." He has explained that the challenge of Gipuzkoa moving, an initiative promoted by Adinberri together with Wellk, "aims to promote physical activity, especially among those over 55 years of age, through an inter-municipal competition."

In this regard, he said that "each person can participate according to their possibilities and pace" and added that "it is not a question of competing individually, nor of achieving great sporting brands, but of joining forces so that the movement gains a presence in everyday life and becomes a permanent habit".

So, through the Wellk app, each participant can choose which municipality they want to represent and contribute their physical activity to the collective classification. Registration in the chosen locality shall not be required. The accumulated active miles will become points for each municipality during the challenging period.

"In order to promote balanced competition," on the one hand, "a weighting will be applied according to the type of physical activity, so that the effort made is reflected in the score," and, on the other, "a coefficient associated with the population of each municipality will be added so that the smaller municipalities can compete on an equal footing with the larger ones," he said.

In addition, incentives are provided for the recognition of participation and effort, such as the drawing of lots among participants, according to the bases published, and express recognition of the municipality that achieves greater participation of persons over 55 years of age. Participation will be through the Wellk app available for iOS and Android devices. Technical questions will be available at wellk@wellk.eus or at www.wellk.eus. Mendoza has pointed out that this challenge will make it possible to gather information on the habits of physical activity of the participants and that this information "will make it possible to better understand the habits of physical activity in Gipuzkoa and to channel future preventive and health promotion activities, always preserving the anonymity of the participants".