Social Inclusion through Equality in Sport Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Inclusion through Equality 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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

THE SITES PARTNERSHIP
This is an association of five Secondary Schools from five very different countries and locations. Within our common commitment towards improving our quality standards, each of us will specialize in one aspect of the themes of Sport and Equality through a carefully planned blueprint for local and transnational activities.
The common routine for our home-to-home exchanges will be:
– to celebrate five mini Olympic Games for five days in different venues that will lead us to engaging in various sports and themes of study
– to prepare those five days of sports meetings with in-between activities of preparation, study and expansion

Equality in Sport and Social Inclusion will be covered as transversal concepts of school curricula, where integration and a sense of early civic education towards empathy will have a strong bias on the notions of Health, Wellbeing, Equality Strands and Social Integration.

OBJECTIVES:
We want to make our students and teachers share school content with participants from other European countries in order to visualize the potential of sports, the possibility of living in two languages and the need to develop a higher degree of equality in society; we want to develop a sense of social awareness by studying notorious examples of equality in sport and how these initiatives can be implemented.

Other competences we are after are: increasing literacy in the use of online work-platforms both for students and staff (eTwinning); higher degree of bilingualism and a notorious degree of enthusiasm and commitment with curricula. We want our students to embrace the idea that playing a sport is an option for their free time as a source of health and wellbeing.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
We teach a population of approximately 4200 students, hire 500 staff and share common approaches to teaching and methodology.
We will send a total of 110 students to 5-day exchanges in which they will be hosted by families. These groups of pupils will be 16-17 years old at the start of the project and 17-18 when it ends. Being a cross-curricular initiative, the project will accept students from any academic programme regardless of their specialization, the only determining factor will be their age and being chosen after clear democratic selection procedures.

METHODOLOGY
We follow scaffolding techniques under the assumption that all knowledge must hinge on previous contents. Upon this structural basis, our students will work on a CLIL approach (Content and Language Integrated Learning) by creating a transnational learning environment where the students and host families do not share a mother tongue and are forced to communicate in a third language.

RESULTS:
All tasks will be agreed upon by partners, and the role of the coordinator will consist mainly of being a moderator as nobody in the association will be assigned any tasks without having previously accepted to deal with them. We have discussed all aspects of the project in the eTwinning Group Forums and will endeavour to attaining the following results:
– work for two years under Erasmus+ funding
– organize five student exchanges with sports competitions (mini Olympic Games)
– maintain the eTwinning Project and Group all along project life.
– disseminate project results and publish project highlights on School’s websites.
– collaborate with prominent institutions and significant personalities of the world of sport.
– implement Bilingualism skills in every aspect of school community and, above all, in school curricula.
– celebrate two steering project meetings
– generate event memorabilia (medals, a totem and t-shirts)
– create a SITES Dossier with new ideas for five modified (new) games or sports that fulfil our requirements for Equality and inclusion

IMPACT:
We have designed this project with the idea of providing impact potential for all activities and procedures. For this reason we plan to reach an impact of 100% (4200 students out of 4200, and many more if we consider our eTwinning partners) as we expect to involve the whole school community within the five partner schools at some time throughout the project’s lifecycle.
The deepest and most direct kind of impact will be achieved among those students who will participate in mobilities but the project will involve the whole community in activities: massive dissemination acts; selection procedures, surveys, publicity, working meetings, CLIL lessons, exhibitions and school trips. And we want to involve the Olympic Channel as our broadcaster.

LONG TERM BENEFITS:
The long term benefits of this project will be:
– larger numbers of people ready to engage in physical activities in our local areas
– changes in teacher training content towards the inclusion of equality strands
– the creation of more and stronger transnational associations as intercultural discrepancies diminish
– less school early drop-out
– stronger student-school bonds
– innovative content in school curricula

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134260 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto Enseñanza Secundaria Ítaca & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Humaniora Kindsheid Jesu
• Mysen videregaende skole
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Parmenide
• 3rd Lyceum of Pyrgos – Pierre de Coubertin