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Seniors are not very commonly recommended or offered team games or competitive forms of exercise. Those who enjoy veteran sports and very active play find team play and competition very meaningful from an experiential point of view (Tiihonen 2011; 2012; 2013; 6-0! Recreational football project).

Learning by Developing model is challenging the traditional way of teaching and acting. It requires more cooperation between the actors of different fields and presupposes that a student is an equal partner in learning and RDI (Relationship Development Intervention) processes. (Raij 2018, 14) Low threshold funded projects, e.g. Erasmus+ Sport, are excellent projects to support and proceed LbD model actions in daily studies in Laurea.

The project 6-0! seems to be a fine example of LbD action model possibilities in the RDI projects. Many stakeholders, students, teachers, Espoo city, third sector actors, private companies and especially end-users, the 60+ players, have been benefiting and learning from the 6-0! project. With the words of one participant “No one believed me, when I told that I start to play football”, describes the hidden capacities of many of us. We just need to be curious, need to explore and exploit the possibilities of individual will and capacity. Recreational football for senior citizens is a valid tool for increasing physical activity level.

Laurea´s Learning by Developing (LbD) model emphasises learning actions in projects, which are connected to real-life situations. The resulting outcomes are individual learning, community learning and produced innovations. Erasmus + Sport funded five nations´ 6-0! project engage students, work life and citizens 60+ years to support individual´s health, wellbeing and social cohesion by playing recreational football. (https://journal.laurea.fi/6-0-recreational-football-project-for-persons-60-years-in-the-core-of-the-lbd-process/#ff1f9474).

From the perspective of social inclusion, fitness football offers a new opportunity for senior citizens who perceive team ball games as a form of exercise that suits them. The recreational football project is described in more detail below through a study of it.