Sporting Participation Across Communities in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sporting Participation Across Communities in Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Access for disadvantaged; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The partners of this application seek, with this project, to make a contribution to achieve the objective of developing the European dimension in sport, in particular grassroots sport, in line with the EU work plan for sport. In addition to this, we also aim to use sport and cultural exchanges to promote European values in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union.

The EU work plan for sport highlights Sport in Society as a priority, “in particular social inclusion, the role of coaches, education in and through sport, sport and health, sport and environment and sport and media, as well as sport diplomacy”. The project aims to cover a range of topics that fall within the framework of Sport in Society. The proposed project coordinator is a qualified PE teacher, who is qualified to degree level in PE / Sports Science. The majority of his modules at university were focussed on Sport in Society.

Sport in Society focusses on the people involved in sport and this project is intended to encourage not only the participants to use sport as a tool for social inclusion but also the others who come in contact with participants of the project. We intend for participants to become actively involved with sporting projects across Europe that are currently promoting the values of social inclusion but also to take these values with them in their future lives.

Throughout this project we intend:

To boost among the involved youngsters the experience of sharing their cultures, the challenges they face for being different. This will allow them to develop social, civic and intercultural skills.

To build the confidence and skills to coach other people when a common language doesn’t exist. This would help students to develop their skills in modelling, demonstrating and the use of body language.

To understand how sport is a vehicle for commonality across Europe but also how each country brings its own individuality and difference to it.

To encourage students in to ‘different’ sports so that they foster a love of lifelong activity. This would be achieved by providing opportunities to play and coach different sports but also seeing how different geography can be used for sporting purposes.

To use their skills to encourage others to take part in sport on the students return to their own countries.

To involve them in the English language, which not only will allow them to express themselves better in their communities (in the case where this is the second language) but also to raise their expectations in what concerns their integration in the job market and making easier their mobility in Europe.

To help arm students with the core values that sport promotes (resilience, equality, fair-play and compassion) so these are transferred into their everyday lives.

Each partner school will choose participants based on their appraisal of the potential longevity of their involvement. Schools would look to students who would take this experience and build upon it by increasing their involvement in sport following their mobility. Schools will also look to give opportunities to students who may be disadvantaged and who could thrive with this opportunity. Schools should also look for pre-existing evidence of this and it is intended that this opportunity is an increased chance for success.

The involving teachers are from different fields of expertise but will predominantly involve teachers of Physical Education and sport. Other teachers involved in the project will be keen to embrace the physicality of the project and be willing to use their experience to encourage others in to physical activity and sport.

Each of the partners schools will focus on students with previous experience or promoted interest as well as disadvantaged students relevant to their local circumstances and will organise meetings, workshops and visits in order to achieve the objectives of the project and in areas where they have a strength or access to expertise.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197102 Eur

Project Coordinator

Launceston College & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Istituto Professionale Statale Servizi Alberghieri e Ristorazione “Costa Smeralda”
• Associação Arco Maior
• Stredni skola hotelova a sluzeb Kromeriz
• IV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Henryka Sienkiewicza w Czestochowie
• Colegiul Economic Partenie Cosma Oradea