European Youth United in Sport Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Youth United in Sport

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Quality Assurance; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Sport represents an ideal setting for effective youth work. Through sports there cannot only be promoted healthiness and wellbeing, but also the development of various self- and social competences as well as health protection factors. Values such as respect, fairplay and accepting rules can be imparted trough sport. Apart from that sport represents a meaningful way of spending free time, fosters social integration and is neccesary to counter the physical inactivity of many young people. There are many different aspects why young peolple can benefit a lot from doing sport in sports organisations.

The in the field of sport widespread civic engagement as well as volunteering are valuable resources and can make a significant positive contribution to the personal development among the volunteers.

But at the moment many sports organisations in the field of youth have to face a lot of different challenges and changed framework conditions. To counter those changed conditions suitable strategies are needed to ensure a sustainable and future-proofed way of acting.

The aim of EYUS is to develop across countries common strategies for sports organisations and volunteers in the field of youth in order to maintain their future viability against the background of a wide range of challenges. Framework conditions and needs of young people are changing, and not all population groups have access to this ‘social system’ sport to the same extent. EYUS aims to ensure that young people can benefit from the positive aspects of sport to an even greater extent, more effectively, more reliably and also in the long term, and to be encouraged in many ways by doing sport in the community. Another goal is to motivate and empower young people to take on responsibility in youth organisations in sport.

Through the project activities especially the participating organisations themselves are supposed to benefit from an increase in knowledge and incentives to pursue quality development. The process focusses on exchange of experiences and peer learning.

The partner institutions from Spain, Hungary, Norway and Germany, along with 25 other associations, have been subject of the international research report ‘Promoting Social Integration and Volunteering in Sports Clubs in Europe’ (SIVSCE) and have been identified in this report as a ‘good practice’ example. These organisations have been included in the report because they have found a specific or particularly effective way of dealing with challenges or changes in framework conditions. Regarding their approach, they are therefore seen as a model for other sports organisations from all over Europe. In addition, a sports federation from Austria will be participating in the project. A permanent project team of two experts from each association will be involved in the work process of EYUS. For training measures there will be the possibility of involving a wider number of participants in order to provide knowledge and incentives to develop quality in an organisation on an even broader basis.

Activities can be distinguished in (1) transnational project meetings in the form of a kick-off event, several coordination meetings and an evaluation meeting. Within the framework of these transnational project meetings, the working process will be coordinated and results will be adjusted. (2) a total of four training programmes shall take place. The aim of these training activities is to transfer knowledge, on the basis of which work assignments for the implementetion of the acquired knowledge in practice can be distributed. All content of the training measures must be related to strategies and methods for ensuring the future viability of sports organisations in the field of youth.

The result of the work process should be a gain in understanding how youth organisations in the field of sport can respond in current and possibly unconventional or even innovative ways to challenges and changed framework conditions in order to ensure sustainability in the long term. The gained knowledge will be documented and can be passed to other organisations in the form of a publication.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194470 Eur

Project Coordinator

idealista UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Békessy Béla Vívó Klub
• Club Deportivo Básico Juventud Alcalá
• Idealverein für Sportkommunikation und Bildung
• Furuset Idrettsforening
• TSG Bergedorf von 1860 e. V.
• SPORTUNION TIROL