Measures across borders to prevent sexualised violence in sports Erasmus Project

Project Title

Measures across borders to prevent sexualised violence in 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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Early childhood education and care; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

Silence protects the wrong people – Quality Alliance without Borders to protect against sexualised violence in sport

Violence has many faces: abuse of power, verbal, physical and psychological injuries. Sexualised violence – subtle or brutal, against body and soul, changeable and elusive – is everywhere in life, including sports.
The earlier we deal with sexualised violence, the more visible it becomes, the less it can unsettle us, the more we can act effectively. The timely dealing with any incidents that may occur prevents excessive demands and uncertainty and at the same time ensures a factually appropriate approach.

The Quality Alliance Sport NRW

The prevention and intervention capabilities of all those responsible are the basic concern of the Quality Association. The association is based on an initiative of the Landessportbund NRW and the NRW Ministry of Sport. No state borders are to be set for this alliance. Potential perpetrators should also be given a signal beyond the borders will be: We’ll look very closely!
Task:
– Develop clear criteria and measures against sexualised violence in organised sport.
– The voluntary commitment of all members to make child protection and the prevention of sexualised violence a permanent task
– to include children’s and youth interests in counselling and prevention work from the outset through the youth board of associations.

About the quality association for membership:
The Quality Alliance organises information events for all interested parties, which introduce the general problem of transgressions and sexual violence in sports and point out prevention steps.

The associations as future alliance partners
The transnational Quality Alliance for Sport is the beginning of a long-term development process lasting several years, which will culminate in a major alliance against sexualised violence in sport.
Participation is open to sports clubs that want to implement a prevention and intervention concept to protect against sexualised violence in sport.

Quality criteria for membership in the alliance
The central tasks of sports clubs include the development and implementation of comprehensive measures to prevent sexualised violence in sport:
– Information of the club board
– Information, discussion and resolution at the annual general meeting
– Addition to the Statutes – Designation of a contact person
– Presentation of the extended certificate of good conduct
– Signature of the code of honour, which will be worked out during the project together with the guidelines.
– Further training for the prevention of sexualised violence
– Information of the association members – development of a guideline for action
– Offers for children and young people/participation in prevention programmes
– Sustainability – continuous maintenance of quality criteria Support services for associations
– technical support and accompaniment by the alliance partners and the regional coordination offices of the alliance in the vicinity of the association
– Possibility of using existing information materials of the alliance partners
– Qualification offers

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 31114 Eur

Project Coordinator

Eupener Sportbund VoG & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Stadtsportbund Aachen e.V.