Integration and European values in traditional sports Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integration and European values in traditional sports

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The 3 countries involved in this project are different, in terms of traditions, history, culture, languages and sport, yet similar, we all work in favour of social integration and of the education of all teenagers. By practising traditional sports which are our culturage heritage( Gaelic Footballl, GAA Handball, Korfball, Petanque and Fencing) we can share, learn and understand common European values, such as respect, tolerance, non-discrimination, social inclusion and solidarity.
Participation will be open to all motivated students in our schools (about 20 students per school), whatever their gender, physical condition, school studies (vocational, technological or general). An example of this is working with groups non-competitively and not being judged on sporting ability. Students with a disability can be enabled to participate in the project. The students and teachers will help these students to integrate and participate in the project.

Before the exchange takes place, each student will be assigned a penfriend that they will communicate with during the project. This will enhance their social and communicational skills. They will research the history and origin of their traditional sport, and they will also exchange videos of them demonstrating the concepts and skills of these traditional sports. There will be free access on the website to all these videos.

During the exchange, they will meet their penfriends and interact collaboratively throughout the exchange in order yo have authentic experience . They will be participating in a range of traditional sports and cultural activities. The sport activities will be organised, taught, explained by the students to their fellow partners (techniques, tactics, rules…). The sport activities will be practised in teams mixing boys, girls and nationalities. The students will take on different active roles : coaching, refeering, organising, filming, writing…
As regards cultural culinary experience, the students will be experiencing traditional dishes while eating together.
In Holland, the students will be able to experience the tradition of cycling to school. Some students will do this for the first time.

At the end of the project, we expect our students to be more open-minded (culture) to Europe, to be more aware of their place as European citizens, to have improved in basic skills ( languages; social, physical, knoledge) , to be willing to travel through Europe as European citizens (via individual Erasmus mobilities or internships for example.) We expect them to be able to communicate more easily with foreigners. We expect them to be more interested in international news, in particular about the countries they visited. They should be more aware of the traditional sports in Europe. Their learning and practising of these sports have shown them different rules and techniques and equipment but also similar European values.

To conclude, we are dedicated to the Erasmus concept of Unity in Diversity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181596 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Technique Privé EPID & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Stichting voor Protestant Christelijk Voortgezet Onderwijs
• Seamount College