Overcoming the restrictions of the pandemic and the insecurities of the present time, the partners of the MOVE project met in person in Lisbon on 22 and 23 March to enthusiastically move forward with their activities to rehabilitate patients and hospital users through motor and sports activities. This project is promoted by Hospitality Europe and primarily involves the healthcare facilities of the Order's Provinces (Hospitaller Brothers' Centre - Kainbach bei Graz, St John of God Foundation - Lisbon, SGD Hospital - Santa Cruz di Tenerife, SGD Institute - Genzano di Roma) together with the Sisters' Hospitallers' Purissima Conception Centre - Granada.

The members were hosted by the Curia of the Order's Portuguese Province and worked on a draft set of European guidelines and a protocol, drawing on their experience and knowledge of the most effective methods for rehabilitating and maintaining the psycho-physical health of patients through regular motor activity and physical exercise practised in special areas within our social and health care facilities. They were also hosted by the Portuguese national Golf Federation, as part of the Federation's long-standing cooperation with the St John of God Foundation in Portugal through its golf courses for psychiatric patients receiving treatment in the Order's facilities.

Dr Galasso was also in Lisbon representing Hospitality Europe, which had drawn up and submitted the relevant application for EU funding for the project in 2020. The MOVE project will continue with regular video meetings looking ahead to the next transnational meeting in Austria (Kainbach bei Graz) in May.