Olympic Legacy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Olympic Legacy

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: Grassroots sports

Project Summary

Olympic Legacy is an international project which brought together youth organisations and local government offices in the UK, Brazil and Hungary to build on the legacy of the Olympic Games. This project collected & shared non-formal youth education developed through the Olympic games legacies and built on the commitment of host country government, to ensure the Olympic games brings benefits to young people (particularly those with fewer opportunities).

The countries which were chosen:
UK: The most recent Olympic Games were held in London and there has been some amazing legacy youth education projects developed as a result of the games. We wanted to share these with youth organisations in Hungary and Brazil in the hope that partners could capitalise on these programmes and the benefits could be multiplied and reproduced.
Brazil: The 2016 Olympic Games were to be held in Rio, so we planned activities in order to offer young people from Brazil, the UK and Hungary the opportunity to be volunteers, to share in this phenomenal international experience in a participate way as well as developing their own trilateral sports education programme which could be rolled out to youth organisations when the Olympic waves swept Brazil in the Summer of 2016
Hungary: Excitingly in 2017 Győr was host of the European Youth Olympic Festival and the Polgár Foundation were working alongside the Hungarian Olympic Committee to realise this project.

In each of the three countries represented, there was at least one local NGO/sport partners, experienced in the field of education through sports and we also engaged with local government offices. We selected these partners to be able to build local projects with the support and infrastructure from the local authorities in order to ensure that the programmes created through The Olympic Legacy would continue long after the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 Youth Olympic Festival and the end of the funding.

The Olympic Legacy project included professional/youth meetings. In the UK we hosted a start up meeting where we met with organisations who have created projects around sport as a tool for youth education, many using the Mayor of London’s sport legacy programme following the London 2012 Olympics. We visited the Olympic village and met people who were positively affected by the games. The first youth meeting took place in Rio during the 2016 Olympic Games, where we offered participating young people the opportunity to volunteer on the programmes in order to be involved in contributing to the legacy. The evaluation meeting (involving young people and professionals) took place in Summer 2017 in Budapest to co-inside and allow collaboration with the Youth Olympic Festival in Győr. We also arranged opportunities for long-term volunteering, where the partner NGO’s hosted EVS in their organisation, in order to support this project and the local organisations objectives, in addition to this each partner offered an opportunity for staff job shadows between the organisations, allowing for professional development and internationalism.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128073,96 Eur

Project Coordinator

EVERYTHING POSSIBLE CIC & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO DE APOIO A CRIANCA EM RISCO – ACER