Sports Based Capacity Building in a Euro-African Context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sports Based Capacity Building in a Euro-African Context

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The proposed project is implemented by four NGOs from Germany, South Africa, Zambia and Ghana that are committed to empower disadvantaged youth through sports and physical activities

The two-year project will provide unprecedented opportunities for truly mutual sharing of good practice and collaborative non-formal learning of youth, youth workers and organisations involved.

Overall objective is to provide and share tested and successful sport based concepts in order to enhance capability and impact of youth work for dealing with young adolescents and supporting them in establishing sustainable perspectives for their sane personal and professional development.

Specific objectives are:

– To exchange and share good practice for non-formal education assisting disadvantaged youth in the acquisition of key competencies
– To improve active participation, social inclusion and equal opportunities of the target group by enhancing their communication, social and civic competencies
– To show good-practice models on how to impart key competencies relevant for the employability of the target group
– To increase participation of marginalised/disadvantaged youth in lifelong learning by providing attractive programmes that meet their specific social, emotional, cultural and intellectual needs
– To stimulate a spirit of initiative, fairness, collective thing and fair play within the target group contributing to non-violence, solidarity and mutual respect
– To improve the professional level of trainers/educators working with the target group through transnational encounters and professional exchanges with colleagues from partner countries
– To improve quality and impact of education programmes with disadvantaged participants through transnational cooperation and future joint actions

To achieve these objectives the project focuses on strengthening the youth workers capability and skills in dealing with disadvantaged youth.

During 4 so called “Transnational meetings” the partners share and exchange their specific approaches and concepts for the target group, including their own methodology and didactics.
The TNMs will be hosted each time by another partner in order to provide authentic insights into the daily work of the partner allowing to fully understand its methodology and didactics.

The following targets were set by the consortium:

– 4 training camps in 2 years
– 24 young leaders from 4 countries who participate in the workshops together with 8 social workers from the four organisations
– Organisation of 4 sport events during the training camps for the participants. Each sport event is planned and prepared by the local team of young leaders and social workers.
– Organisation of activities led by young leaders for 1000 youth from the scope of the organisation during the project period
– Handbook on concepts and methods of each organisation
– Creation of an online project platform for communication and dissemination of results and products

Furthermore the consortium decided to add five more aims to the project:
1. Fighting youth unemployment
2. Fostering young leadership skills
3. Fostering the willingness to work as a volunteer
4. Gender-equality
5. Raise the awareness for the work done by the four participating organizations
These aims always guided us during the entire project period and they were also a practical lesson we taught the youth. Through the orientation on our project aims the participating youth learned that successful results can only be reached if undertaken methods and activities are linked to aims.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150000 Eur

Project Coordinator

RHEINFLANKE GGMBH & Country: DE

Project Partners