The Fulda movement check project was introduced in the Fulda education region in 2010 as a campaign by the district of Fulda for sustainable promotion of physical activity and health, sports and talent. Since then, the project has been led by the Fulda District Office, which coordinates the project together with the Chair of Exercise and Movement Science at the University of Bayreuth and in association with the Fulda State Education Department, the Sports Department of the City of Fulda, as well as the Fulda Sports District and the participating schools.

The overriding goal of the Fulda movement check is to fulfill the municipal health and socio-political mandate of providing services of general interest and, in this respect, to motivate children to exercise more and lead a healthier lifestyle in the long term.

The central finding of the Fulda movement check 2010-2015 is that the 8-year-old children in the 2nd elementary school classes examined in the Fulda education region have above-average motor skills and, for the most part, perform well above the national reference values (see Bös et al., 2009 and 2016). Particularly in the area of coordination and especially in running endurance, the girls and boys in Fulda are considerably superior to their peers nationwide and are on average at the level of the approximately 20 percent (SDS = 0.8) of the best-performing children nationwide.

In the coming years, the perspective will continue to be pursued of conducting the Fulda movement check as a regular annual and comprehensive sports motor assessment in the 2nd grades of elementary schools in the educational region of Fulda. All schools in the district and the city of Fulda will continue to be motivated to participate.