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Entrepreneurial Sport Education

2019-1-SE02-KA105-0024152019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: SE|BG|IT|PL|EL · Grant: €29,730
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Inclusion - equityEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education

Objectives

Youth unemployment, marginalization and exclusion are a structural component of most of EU countries and regions nowadays. We believe that addressing such issues through sport and physical activity is the perfect way to empower young people and youth workers towards their effective personal and professional growth. With our partners, the following issues and needs have been identified to be addressed throughout the implementation of the project, developing competences of young people, youth workers and NGOs: - Build entrepreneurial mindset and skills - Train and improve young people and youth workers’ organizational, management and leadership skills - Promote the role of Sport and NFE practices as tools for empowerment and lifelong learning - Foster youth engagement and social inclusion through Sport - Share good examples of projects that could be replicated in other contexts - Encourage sharing and learning between EU countries and cultures What we plan to achieve with our project is to involve youth workers and young people in an experiential learning aimed at providing them with knowledge, skills and non-formal education tools and methods to foster social inclusion, personal development and community engagement through entrepreneurship, mostly of disadvantaged youth categories (NEETs, people from marginalized and rural areas and with educational difficulties). In this regard, Sport is one of the most effective instrument to counterbalance the above mentioned negative effects by involving final youth targets in educational activities aimed at increasing their self-confidence, participation and entrepreneurial skills. Specific objectives of the project are: - To reflect and raise awareness about entrepreneurial education through Sport in different EU countries; - Stimulate empowerment and engagement through Sport; - Sharing examples of good practices to fight exclusion through sport; - Using non-formal learning tools and sport principles and practices as a way to deal with youth unemployment - Develop a sustainable network for future cooperation among participants and partner organizations in the youth and sport field We believe that Sport is the perfect ground where people can be introduced into the world of entrepreneurship. Sport and physical activity, indeed, are not only providing healthy lifestyle, but the attitude that can be learned from them is fundamental and cross sectorial, providing with transversal competences. Moreover, sport and physical activity are also a very powerful tool to experience moments of inclusion, because everybody can participate, regardless of origin, gender, ethnicity, religion and all the obstacles that make participation in daily life more difficult

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