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Hiking for You-th

2019-1-DE04-KA105-0177712019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|GE|LT|PT|UA|AM|NL|RU · Grant: €31,815
Inclusion - equityHealth and wellbeingMigrants' issues

Objectives

"Schoolclash eV" together with partners initiates a project "Go for hi-king" which is based on sports, outdoor education & social inclusion. We noticed that Europe citizens are very frustrated because of current changes & new wave of discrimination, hate & anger is starting in the continent again. Huge number of racist crimes in Europe has risen as well, especially hate crimes against Muslims following Paris attacks. There is an urgent need to reduce social tensions, to raise the level of tolerance, to promote the understanding & accepting each other despite the cultural & religious differences. Our aim is with the use of sport as development tool to foster solidarity and social inclusion. Idea of YE came up after the meeting of young people in one of the YE. The interest of future partners was shared and they expressed their willingness to participate in this activity which will tackle the issue of lack of tolerance and explore it through different kind of methods. We are combining every days active lifestyle with non-formal education methods in youth work. The specific objectives of this project: 1.To reach personal development which helps to understand ourselves and reflect on own behavior & behavior of others. 2.Challenge the perception of the structures within our society that undermine social inclusion or foster discrimination 3.Overcoming the stereotypes of different religious 4.To raise awareness on the topic of discrimination 5.To build a broader understanding of what an inclusive attitude means and to start inter cultural and inter- religious dialogue 6.To understand the connections between culture and sport and to understand the inter cultural aspects of sport 7.To raise the sense of empathy towards other people. Next to the general objectives we have the following goals: 1. To engage partners and participants therefore the project's continuation could be planned; 2. To involve local volunteers so they could be motivated to initiate similar initiatives by their own; 3. To encourage significant changes of the mindset in participants so they could bring changed to they communities; 4. To refine methods of education through sport; 5. To build a stronger partnership with organisations; As we will use sport for an educational purpose, it is essential to make good use of the mentioned above non-sport components. We will do it in a structured, reflective & a planned way. The context of non-formal education & its methodology provide this insight in planning learning process while using sport. This type of working requires many elements which go from using sport & physical exercise in order to provoke a strong lifelong learning outcome such as improving tolerance, solidarity or trust among nations. The importance here is to conduct a process where sport & hiking become tools for support to achieve the educational goals first. In this case the sport itself becomes secondary to the educational purpose.

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