Santescalade
6-12 years old trainings
Registrations
To register a project to the Santescalade programm, please fill up the form here.
Goals
Sant”e”scalade program aims to promote physical activity and to train children from 6 to 12 years old for the Course de l’Escalade.
Duration
8 consecutive weeks, outside of school schedule. 1 training per week from 1 hour to 1,5 hour. Each training is divided by running training and nutritional advices.
Location
The project leader communicates to the participants a fixed location before the beginning of the program (school yard, stadium, park, etc.)
Supervision
Regular and specialised public schools (DIP), private schools, parent associations and local authorities can take charge of a Sant’é’sclade project. The various parties involved must consult each other to avoid offering competing programmes (e.g. for a public school, either the parent association or the school declares the project). The project manager is responsible for the supervisors he or she wishes to include in the project (group management skills, attitude towards children). The supervision ratio must be one adult for every seven children. In the case of projects supervised by professionals and depending on the local context, this ratio may be slightly higher.
Downloads (in French)
Flyer 2025
Registration form
Passeport 2025
Technical data sheets
Recommendation for healthy snacks
Food pyramid
Support sport practice documents
Information letter for APE
Specifications for public schools
Specifications for specialised schools
DIP website
Commitments of project leaders
The project manager undertakes to comply with the specifications assigned to him/her, as well as with the following points:
- The person carrying out the project does so in his/her own name. If he/she is a member of the teaching staff, he/she informs his/her management of the project.
- The project leader receives an allowance of CHF 720.00 per project, which includes supervision of the 8 sessions, participation in the back-to-school meeting, as well as the various organizational and administrative tasks involved.
- Payment is made to the project leader’s account, and under no circumstances to the school’s account.
- No money may be collected (payment of registration fees) via class teachers during school hours.
- In the event of an accident, the parents’ liability insurance will be called upon, and they must also declare the claim to their child’s accident insurance.
- For training sessions, participants are under the responsibility of the project leader.
- All project leaders are expected to attend the information session, so as to benefit from the latest information.
- Material can only be collected after the information session.
Information meeting (to be chosen) :
- Monday September, 3 2025 at 1:30 pm
- Wednesday September, 8 2025 at 6:00 pm
- Location : Centre de formation continue de Geisendorf, 58 rue de Lyon, 1203 Geneva
Children registrations
The project leader gives away the information letter to the children who want to register to the trainings.
Sant”e”scalade program is free. For the children who want to participate to the Course de l’Escalade, Sant”e”scalade takes a part of the registration prices.
A few numbers
Between 2007 and 2023, a total of 61,208 children took part in santescalade training sessions, grouped into 1,182 projects. In 2023, 5,579 children took part in 101 projects. Every year, around 85% of these children take part in the Course de l’Escalade at the end of the training sessions. This concept is currently being implemented in some 30 communes.