Marc Cloes, Benoît Lenzen, Alexandre Mouton, Fabienne Brière
In the past years, the European Physical Education Association (EUPEA) investigated the quality of
Physical Education (PE) and School Sport (SS) on several occasions from different perspectives, presented
and published as the antecedents of the European Physical Education Observatory (EuPEO) funded by the
Erasmus+ Sport programme. Partners from nine countries, including PE teacher associations and research
partners, aimed to develop a Europe-wide PE monitoring system by developing the EuPEO webpage, a manual
for external assessment (MEA) at Europe-wide and country levels, and a toolkit to prepare and provide
internal self-monitoring (TIM) of quality PE and SS at the school level. In general, these two tools intend to
provide a comparative view of QPE through common frameworks, tools and processes, while including as much
as possible culturally sensitive conditions for QPE implementation, analysis, and decision-making. The core
dimensions of the EuPEO framework for QPE were primarily established with an explicit reference to the 2015
UNESCO Quality Physical Education Framework.