Back to search

Let's promote active sport together: Youth Workers on the field

2020-1-CY02-KA105-0017912020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: CY|LV|MK|IT|HU|BG|PL|TR|EL|SK · Grant: €20,049
Health and wellbeingPedagogy and didacticsYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

With this project we sought to find innovative ways to work on the development and enhancement of knowledge, skills and importantly attitudes of youngsters in an engaging, reliable and inclusive way. Taking into account our experience of the past years but also working on the development of new effective methods we targeted to actively engage and provide tools and skills to young people for personal development and therefore positive social change. Having this idea in mind, we strongly believed that Sport represents a significant base to bring together youngsters regardless of their social, cultural or economic background, and a way to develop discussions and work on young people’s knowledge, skills and attitudes bringing the achievements made on the field back to everyday life, supporting them to grow as healthy individuals and citizens. Our project idea was at the same time subject to UN’s Declaration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development says: "Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development. We recognize the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives”. The training course “Let's promote active sport together: Youth Workers on the field” intended to work in order to provide a set of best practices and usable practical instruments to work with young people through methods based on sport. Since Active Zone Outdoor's main mission is to motivate and engage young people in sport and outdoor activities as a means to enhance better mental health and well-being, we strongly believed that this project would support our work on local activities on sport values and education. It also aimed at providing a field of sharing and confrontation among organizations active in the field of education and sport from different perspectives and points of view. Particularly, the objectives of the project were: - To provide practical tools, manuals and best practices connected with youth work through sporting methods and sportbased learning - To empower youth workers to support youngsters in the development of valuable skills, knowledge and attitudes, through sport activities - To provide ideas and inputs for the development of new instruments connected with sport, education and personal and professional development - To expand the spectrum of people to be involved in sport educational activities, exploring the importance of effective training for parents, teachers, coaches and youth workers - To give an overview of the existing policies and programmes on sport and education at local, national, European and international level - To develop a network of youth leaders working with sport-based learning methods to create new concerted strategies, projects and platforms for discussion. The objectives were well connected with the ones of the Erasmus+ programme and thus the dedicated European strategies, such as: - Europe 2020 and Education & Training 2020 (sport as a tool to develop skills for employability; sport educational tools to answer to early school leaving); - The EU Youth Strategy (including areas of employability, health, inclusion, education & training); - The EU work plan for sport and its objective of developing the European dimension in sport, in particular grassroots sport; - The promotion of European values and the specific objectives of the Youth part of Erasmus +: - Improve the level of key competencies and skills of young people and promote active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity; - Foster quality improvements in youth work; - Enhance the international dimension of youth activities and enhance the capacity of youth workers and organizations in their support for young people.

Project partners (10)