The meeting was attended by representatives of the partner organizations of the project from Bulgaria, Germany and Italy which during the meeting, have examined the goals that the project will achieve and the steps for the implementation of the activities Budapest is the European Capital of Sport in 2019.Sport.Youth.Inclusion is a project to be implemented in three sectors: sport, education and youth work. Sport has a central social role in our days. Sport is competition but also a field of learning social skills. Sport can be a tool for positive social change, but can also be a dangerous tool of social and political manipulation. For this we must bring the attention of people to the positive social potentials of sport. As in the EU White Paper on Sport, sport has a very strong social role through which in formal and non-formal education, it reinforces Europe human capital.
Furthermore through sport we can strengthen the prevention of and fight against racism and violence. According to the Eurobarometer men in the EU exercise, play sport or engage in other physical activity more than women. This disparity is particularly marked in the 15-24 age group, with considerably more young men tending to exercise or play sport on a regular basis than young women (74% vs 55%).
- The aim of the project is to promote and develop the role of sport in empowering citizenship skills of young people to build more inclusive and democratic communities, by sharing and disseminating the practices in the field of sport and physical education. In order to achieve this aim the project will:
- Build sustainable cooperation among stakeholders from different fields such as sport, formal education and youth work,
- Share and collect practices and tools of empowering citizenship skills of young people in order to improve inclusion through sport,
- Share, discuss and document approaches, theory and methodology behind such practices,
- Disseminate these practices and methodology within the partner organisations and make them available in all the participating countries for a wider public of all three domains (online collection of practices and methods)
- Provide recommendations to national sport policy administration, and European Commission to show and develop the potential role of sport communities in improving inclusion and combat discrimination.
Sport.Youth.Inclusion project has been co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission KA2 and it is a strategic partnership that will work together for 16 months, starting from 01/09/2019 and includes 4 countries – Bulgaria – Bulgarian sports development association, Germany – Sportjugend im Landessportbund Brandenburg e.V., Italy – Associazione Italiana Cultura Sport, Hungary – Reményt a Gyermekeknek
Közhasznú Egyesület / Hope for Children Hungary.
