Blueprint for Skills Cooperation and Employment in Active Leisure
Launched in 2018, the Blueprint for Skills Cooperation and Employment in Active Leisure project was a three-year project and aimed at developing a sector skills strategy for the Active Leisure sector, which combines the fitness and outdoor sectors.
Intercultural Education through Physical Activity, Coaching and Training (EDU:PACT)
The project developed and implemented a module to train physical education teachers and sport coaches on how to implement intercultural education within their sport sessions. In short, EDU-PACT aimed to prepare physical education teachers and sport coaches for inclusive intercultural education in and through sport by improving the quality of their pre-service and in-service education. The full Module handbook (in five languages) and considerable online resources are now permanently hosted on the ENSE website under edupact.sporteducation.eu.
Social Entrepreneurship Training Program for Athletes (SENTA)
The SENTA project are to supported the implementation of the EU Guidelines Dual Careers of Athletes through the development of a sports-focused social entrepreneurship program. Over two years, consortium partners developed and tested an innovative curriculum and gamification based training modules in line with athlete needs and expectations.
Funded via Erasmus+, the aim of the project was to take football3 to a new level. During the duration of football3 for all, a mobile course was created and a certification pathway established to support individuals and organisations in scaling up this innovative methodology for social inclusion.
Interested individuals can sign up for the mobile course and learn how to be a football3 mediator, a football3 trainer and/or a football3 manager in theory and practice. Theoretical knowledge can be acquired by completing the mobile course, while practical experience can be gained by taking part in an in-person training at one of the partner organisations of the project. Visit www.football3.info for more information about potential in-person opportunities.
FLOT aimed to equip and empower a new generation of young European and African women who are working (or volunteering) in Sport for All with the necessary skills, knowledge, experiences and guidance to lead the global Sport for All Movement. Through a comprehensive global mobility and mentoring scheme, the participants strengthened their future employability and enhanced their personal and professional development through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge gained through nonformal education and time spent in a foreign country. To find out more about the project, you can visit https://www.flotsport.org
Every person has the same right to participate in play, recreation and sporting activities, but equal access has not always to be the case for youth with disabilities. Instead, youth with disabilities are generally less physically active, participate less in sports activities and show a reduced fitness level compared to their non-disabled peers.
SEDY2 aimed to address these issues by encouraging inclusion and equal opportunities in sport. Ultimately, the project developed several practical instruments and interventions to assist youth with a disability to become more physically active, and these are available under www.sedy.sporteducation.eu
ACTIVE Engage, Connect, Empower EU Youth through sustainable, inclusive and democratic Sport
The action aimed at promote interest and engagement about European Youth Goals and future EU youth policies among less active youth and youth risking marginalization based on potential sources of discrimination through inclusive and sustainable sport activities. To do so, the project developed networks and outputs, including a needs analysis, handbook of good practices, training toolkits for youth and young coaches, inclusive and sustainable sport sessions and sport events with videos, an European awareness raising campaign.
VIRAL (Virtual Reality Approach in Learning about doping) is a Virtual Reality social simulator where participants experience first-person experiences of the use of doping, both physical and psychological. As such, the scope of the project was to promote sports integrity and anti-doping ethics for young people in fitness/amateur sports by usingcutting-edge behavioural science research about the risk and protective factors against doping use in amateur and grassroots sports to inform the development of an anti-doping Virtual Reality program aiming to assist in the prevention of doping.
Policymakers, researchers and NGOs often emphasise the importance of inclusive, participatory programming. Project participants, local communities and other stakeholders should be involved in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities. This will ensure projects meet the needs of their target audience and achieve their objectives. However, the extent to which this happens is often unclear. Organisations sometimes lack the resources and knowledge to fully understand how to do it in a meaningful and effective way. One method is by using a Living Lab approach, which is becoming increasingly popular in social science research but is still quite new in sport for development. Following a Living Lab approach, the Sport and Social Cohesion Lab project aims to increase social cohesion in diverse, vulnerable, urban neighbourhoods and support practitioners in delivering high-quality sport for social cohesion programmes. It creates tools and shares knowledge based on the research of project partners, and aims to improve social cohesion in the neighbourhoods where project partners work. To find out more about the project and its resources, visit SportandDev.org
