Constitution of an education program for skateboard-teachers and common contests Erasmus Project

Project Title

Constitution of an education program for skateboard-teachers and common contests

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Starting point of the project are two skateboarding clubs that are both locally and nationally active for their respective skateboarding communities. The two clubs want to help each other with the establishment of skateboarding teacher training programs to ensure the quality of skateboarding courses; In addition, a cooperation with regard to the organization of skateboarding contests is planned for the future. Skateboarding has experienced ups and downs since the 1950s with a peak around the millennium. Since then, it has achieved a stable position, a prestigious sport that even made it into the 2020 Olympic program, as well as lifestyle and a symbol of youth culture, which is often used for marketing purposes and copied into fashion and even haute couture. Both ZIP6020 and Freecrowd share the goal of establishing and promoting skateboarding as a sport, as well as keeping the culture of individualism, freedom and creativity alive. Skateboarding is also characterized by the lack of nationalism. This can be seen, for example, in international competitions. Skaters do not represent a country and the fans do not just fire their compatriots. What matters most to the athletes is not even the ranking, but their personal best. Whoever wins wins as a person, not as an extension of a nation.

Target group: Male or female skateboarders from a certain age, who have a certain minimum experience and skills on the skateboard themselves and who would like to teach skating to children and teenagers. In the two clubs, the already active members, who want to broaden their horizons, learn to know each other and expand their knowledge in relation to the organization and organization of courses and events and to establish contact with government authorities.
In Liechtenstein there is currently no qualification for skateboarding instructors and the skateboarding lessons take place only to a small extent. Thus, Freecrowd can benefit from the years of experience of ZIP6020, which teaches children from the age of 3, as well as adolescents and adults, and has an already established, official qualification for skateboarding instructors in Austria. ZIP6020 can not only help its fellow skaters in Liechtenstein, but also improve their own educational program, further qualify their own teachers and see the project as a possible starting point for consistent quality criteria at transnational or even European level. Both clubs can benefit from their experience in dealing with authorities and governments.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 27206 Eur

Project Coordinator

Freecrowd & Country: LI

Project Partners

• ZIP6020 – Verein zur Förderung der Skateboardszene in Innsbruck und Umgebung