A Path to TranSportAction Erasmus Project

Project Title

A Path to TranSportAction

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

“A Path to TranSportAction” (APTSA) is a project involving a total of 5 organizations from Europe (Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru), whose main aim is to enhance the capacity of youth organizations and stakeholders in all partner countries and beyond to use Sport in combination with high-end Non Formal Education methodologies for fostering a gender-inclusive approach to Sport practices, contrasting sexism and gender stereotypes and promoting equality and mutual respect among genders in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and in Latin America.Gender discrimination and inequality is a well known structural phenomenal of endemic proportion in both the European and the Latin American region. Across the different national and cultural realities composing the Consortium, the development of a concrete gender equality is impeded by persisting barriers and discrimination against young women. The aforementioned barriers are both of material nature (i.e. disadvantages in access to the labour market, lower wages as compared with male peers, lower presence of women among the higher tiers of the business and public sectors) as well as related to the social and existential spheres wherein the diffusion of a still considerable machist mentality determines more or less socially sanctioned forms of stereotyping and prejudice confining young women to established roles and conduits. The most extreme manifestations of such mentality lay at the root of widespread phenomena of verbal/psychological violence and, ultimately, physical aggression against women.The low levels of female participation in the Sport field are an important component of the wider dynamics of gender-based disadvantage. Indeed, the general prejudice considering Sport as an almost exclusive field of male engagement, coupled by the machist self-representations which permeate most Sport sub-culture, represent at the same time a telling effect and a critical self-perpetuating mechanism of gender stereotyping and discrimination. At the same time, Sport represents a powerful educational vehicle through which disadvantaged targets can acquire crucial soft skills, transversal skills and positive attitudes of self-confidence and active participation representing the key component of any grassroots process of empowerment. Through its inner dynamics of peer-interaction and fair competition among people with diverse backgrounds (cultural, ethnic, gender etc.), Sport provides also an invaluable experiential path to promote mutual respect and deconstruct prejudicesThe use of Sport in combination with Non Formal Education methodologies is a long-standing driver of NGO social action to promote empowerment and dialogue processes through a grassroots approach in a variety of contexts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96251,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZAJEDNICA SPORTSKIH UDRUGA GRADA RIJEKE RIJECKI SPORTSKI SAVEZ & Country: HR

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO BRASILEIRA DE INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL
• BRIGADA DE VOLUNTARIOS BOLIVARIANOS DEL PERU
• ASOCIACIA ZA RAZVITIE NA BULGARSKIASPORT
• MINE VAGANTI NGO