Global Sport for Development and Peace Knowledge Collaborative Erasmus Project

Project Title

Global Sport for Development and Peace Knowledge Collaborative

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Sport and physical activities have become important tools in international and local development and in addressing social issues such as conflict resolution, reconciliation, community building, social exclusion and human development. Sport is used as a vehicle to approach different processes within society but is often perceived only at the elite, professional level. Even at universities, within sport studies and development studies programmes, sports’ social role is often neglected.

The Global Sport for Development and Peace Knowledge Collaborative (GloKnoCo) aims to establish best practice for the teaching and dissemination of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) projects across the EU and internationally in order to establish clear recommendations for the EU higher education sector, member states’ institutions and partner institutions. Through the strategic partnership, the project seeks to establish a dialogue between universities and different stakeholders to ensure that the teaching of SDP courses addresses the needs of the sector whilst helping NGOs to engage with research. Building and consolidating an international network of universities and NGOs in the sector will assess the range and delivery of SDP courses. Through this network, a common reference framework will be developed to align delivery of SDP courses with the sector and an online collaborative tool established to share best practice. Therefore, the seven project partners (3 universities and 4 NGOs) from 4 EU countries – Czech Republic (Palacky University Olomouc, INEX-SDA), Great Britain (University of Brighton, Football4Peace), Germany (Paderborn University, Amandla) and Poland (MSIS) established this cooperation. Each year they will jointly organise an intensive course focusing on SDP topics for 36 students from the partner universities. It will be followed by online activity of students working groups on specific SDP project proposals and it will be ended by a study trip to SDP organisations where the participants (students and also partner NGO young workers) will have the possibility to discuss real problems and practical impacts of the implementation of SDP programs. The project envisages to prepare the participants to be involved in SDP area and co-create mutual understanding among different sectors. The results (SDP methodologies, recommendations for teaching and policy, etc.) will be also shared with all the possible stakeholders in conferences organised during the lifetime of the project.

The project argues that the field of SDP needs to develop deeper and intensive discussion among all the stakeholders, with a focal role of the tertiary sector. Universities do not operate in a vacuum and need to establish and share courses that engage with the experiences of stakeholders. The curricula will be enriched through the experiences of the strategic partnerships. GloKnoCo prepares activities demonstrating how sport and physical activities can be harnessed as tools to approach processes that go beyond the mere physical. Students, academics and professionals will understand the potential of sport. This should motivate them to utilise it correctly and to ensure a positive effect in the future. During the blended mobility (study trips) students will encounter different actors including NGOs, ministries, development agencies, sport federations and sport organisations and will discuss with them the issues important for the field.

Project Website

http://gloknoco.net

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 280823 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
• Football for Hope Peace and Unity
• UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN
• AMANDLA EduFootball e.V.
• Stowarzyszenie Trenuj Bycie Dobrym
• INEX – SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT Z S
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