Program Młodzieżowy Muaythai Erasmus Project

Project Title

Program Młodzieżowy Muaythai

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Health and wellbeing; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The partnership of Polish, Italian and Portuguese Muaythai Federations is a cooperation in the interest of improvement and increasing the quality of working with youth in sport discipline which is Muaythai – Thai boxing.
The main purpose of our program is cooperation in favour of innovation and exchanging good practices. It is a strategic partnership in youth sector that main purpose is development of innovation.
Innovativeness of this project is characterized mostly by using Muaythai martial art as a tool to work with youth and to improve the quality of it. Another aspect of innovativeness of this project is due to creation of a special educational programme dedicated for Muaythai trainers referring to activities carried out with youth who is threaten with exclusion.
Muaythai is more than a sport – it is a type of philosophy, a life style. It teaches self-discipline and self-improvement, helps in psychophysical development, teaches the abilities of defeating one’s own weaknesses, helps to control the emotions, shows that victory should be earned and how to deal with failures. It perfectly works out with young people who are just starting to develop their morality and set of behaviours. It is crucial to be aware of the fact that among people, who train martial arts along with Muaythai, a big group of people are teenagers who are currently looking for their own path in live, checking their possibilities and they might come from a variety of backgrounds together with some that could be endangered with exclusion.
The main objective of project “MUAYTHAI YOUTH PROGRAM” is to improve and enhance the quality of work with young people in Muaythai sport by developing tools and dedicated programs and methods. The Muaythai Youth Program will consist of: muaythai interactive platform; education program for muaythai trainers program; scenarios of trainings for young people and report om the implementation of the programs in partner’s organizations and plan of implementation in other muaythai’s organizations in Europe and in the World.
In the MUAYTHAI YOUTH PROGRAM was implementation involved 150 young people (50 per. from each partner’s country, and 15 muaythai’s trainers (5 per. from each partners organizations). They were actively participate in the implementation of the Muaythai Youth Program.
The result of the project is Muaythai Youth Program to improve and enhance the quality of work with young people in Muaythai sport. This program is allow athletes, trainers not only teach young people martial arts techniques, but also motivate, help, support and encourage to lern, having passion, planning the future. The impact of design activities is therefore of great importance in enhancing the quality of work with young people.
Thanks to this project a Muaythai Youth Program is being developed. Its main purpose is improvement of working with teenagers. It is easy to notice the increased necessity of working together with youth due to increasing environmental issues they are growing up in. A vast majority of young people who start their adventure with Muaythai are teenagers from difficult background, who are excluded or endangered with exclusion, also some are coming from notorious environments. This program will let sportsmen and trainers teach youth not only techniques of martial arts, but also how to motivate, help, support and encourage teenagers to study, develop passion and plans for the future.
This program helps trainers to develop their skills, allows improving the quality and scope of working with youth. It develops the curiosity about the Muaythai sport in teenagers and arouses motivation, interests in other martial arts, teaches healthy rivalry, fair play rule, meeting new people who are dealing with similar situations, establish and build new relations. Substantive education through Muaythai techniques contributes to nullifying social barriers, drifts youth away from suspicious environments, improves current and helps building new relationships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 83530 Eur

Project Coordinator

Polskie Zrzeszenie Muaythai & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ITAL MUAY THAI EUROPA -FIMT
• Federação Portuguesa de Kickboxing e Muay Thai