Take it to the street Erasmus Project

Project Title

Take it to the street

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Migrants’ issues; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

ISA initiated the project ‘Take it to the Street’. The project is about the value and use of street sports to promote the positive engagement of young people in society.

The project was initiated on the basis of different underlying dynamics.
in Europe, (local) governments struggle with the engagement and integration of young people, especially third country nationals, within their communities.
The sports club can serve as an important space to foster the positive engagement and engagement of young people, but evidence shows that the traditional sports club doesn’t fit for everybody.
A shared belief of ISA and its consortium partners is that street sports can contribute to the engagement and integration of young people within society.
This is backed by recent academic research that shows street sports are becoming increasingly popular throughout Europe.

A consortium was formed with ISA in the lead and Game Denmark, Game Lebanon, Sport University Cologne and 3×3 UNITES as partners.
Game Denmark has 10+ years experience in youth-led street sports for social change.
Game Lebanon has specific experience working with high numbers of refugees and third country nationals using street sports.
Sport University Cologne is a widely recognised institute doing research on Sport for Development.
3×3 UNITES is a young and innovative organisation that uses 3×3 basketball to promote social change.
ISA has the positive engagement of young people at its core and recognises street sports as an important strategy.

The aim of the consortium is to develop street sports as an effective strategy to promote the participation, engagement and integration of young people within their communities.
More specific, ‘Take it to the street’ aims to develop curricula, best practices and tools that stimulate the use of street sports to promote positive engagement of youths.

The project has resulted in:
IO1: A research on the potential value of street sports for development
IO2: How to guide: designing effective street sports for youth engagement interventions
IO3: How to guide: Implementing effective street sports for youth engagement interventions
IO4: How to guide: Monitoring and evaluating street sports for youth engagement interventions
IO5: A 3×3 basketball for youth engagement and life skills facilitators guide
IO6: A 3×3 Basketball for youth engagement and life skills coaches’ manual
IO7: A platform on how to design, implement and monitor Street Sports and Youth Engagement interventions

The project has led to more insights and knowledge among consortium partners and stakeholders on how to use street sport for youth engagement. It also led to improved programmes and interventions. This contributes to a greater group of youth from multicultural backgrounds who are engaged in street sport activities and thereby increased their overall visibility, participation and sense of belonging within their (new) communities.

Two concrete examples:
– In Amsterdam, 3×3 leaders are trained on the basis of the developed ‘3×3 for youth engagement’ curriculum
– War Child (as one of multiple international organisations) have shown an explicit interest in using street sports within their programmes

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167872 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ALLIANCE & Country: NL

Project Partners

• DEUTSCHE SPORTHOCHSCHULE KOLN
• GAME
• 3X3 Unites
• GAME Lebanon