Traditional Sports for Integration and Equality in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Traditional Sports for Integration and Equality 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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Traditional Sports for Integration and Equality in Europe” is a designed European project to research into the sports practice among European teenagers, spur them on to a healthy lifestyle, prevent school dropout, encourage female students to practise sports and promote traditional sports as a means to protect cultural heritage, foster European integration and tackle discrimination and gender inequality.
CONTEXT
The project emerges from a current eTwinning project: Sport Practice by European Teenagers (ID: 205792), aimed at promoting sports practice among teenagers. We wanted to push the project forward and extend its positive outcomes and include more lines of action. For this reason, we’ve developed this new KA229 and contacted our partners, two of whom we have previously collaborated with in former Erasmus+ projects and other two we contacted with through e-Twinning:
Stredna zdravotnicka skola, Moyzesova 17, Kosice (Slovakia)
Ankara Kalem Egitim Ogretim Kurumlari (Turkey)
Collège Mille Roches (Reunion Island/France)
4th GEL RODOU (Rhodes/Greece)
OBJECTIVES
O1: to research into students real sports habits and healthy lifestyle.(Health and wellbeing)
O2: to encourage the practice and protection of traditional sports as a means to preserve cultural heritage and identity (EU Citizenship, EU Awareness and Democracy)
O3: to prevent school dropout by helping students acquire a sense of belonging, boost self esteem, develop life skills such as teamwork and promoting values of effort, resilience and hardwork. (SCHOOL EDUCATION: Tackling early school leaving and disadvantage)
O4: to tackle discrimination and prevent women sports dropout using sports and traditional sports promotion as a means of integration and gender equality. (Gender equality / equal opportunities)
PARTICIPANTS
The students chosen to be part of the project will be aged 12-17, with different backgrounds and a gender balance. They will work in assigned teams on the local activities and some of them will take part in exchanges. Furthermore, they will be work in disseminations activities as presenters, organizers or audience members. In total, there will be approximately 100 learners taking part in exchanges, assisted by teachers with subjects such as foreign language, Physical Education, social studies, ICT etc., who will also participate in students’ exchanges
ACTIVITIES
“Traditional Sports for Integration and Equality in Europe” consists of monthly activities that are divided into different categories according to the objectives pursued in the project. During this two-year project students will research into teenage sports practice, conduct surveys, become aware of the benefits of sports and launch campaigns to promote a healthy lifestyle. They will investigate about traditional sports and the importance of their cultural heritage and its legacy in Europe, as a union of the contributions of all individuals. They will produce maps and compile a traditional sports rulebook and encourage other students to practise, record and share their experiences. They will also learn about the dream gap and understand the importance of tackling gender inequality. Finally, all this experiences will end up in the celebration of a Traditional Sports Olympic Games and address a letter to the European Parliament to ask for a more comprehensive promotion of traditional sports and their benefits for us all.
METHODOLOGY
The methodology is based on a student-centered, peer-to-peer approach: the students will lead the activities and be responsible of the end products. They will work in groups, both in class and internationally, assisted by their teachers, using ICT tools. They will form teams of workshops, make research, inform themselves and create educational material.
To attain the proposed goals they will communicate with the students from other partner schools and use eTwinning platform. Teachers will also work in teams following a better execution of the activities, monitoring the students’ activities, working closely with the other teams of the project to follow the plan of the activities, thus ensuring the success of the project.
The project is expected to extend beyond all students, teachers and agents involved, as the products, the outcomes and the better understanding of its objectives will be available to be used in further projects and thus reach even more students, staff, parents, educational agents. After an activity is carried out, a teacher or teachers responsible for that activity will write a text report about the activity and gather activity outcomes (posters, art work, videos, presentations…), prepare exhibition open for public (in school or elsewhere) and give all materials to school coordinator to be posted on project dissemination platforms.
Project team of teachers and students will have regular video meetings and evaluate results and plan future activities, define problems and offer possible solutions for them

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169416 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro San Viator & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ÖZEL YENİMAHALLE FİNAL ORTAOKULU
• collège Mille Roches
• 4th GEL RODOU
• Stredna zdravotnicka skola, Moyzesova 17, Kosice