Sport Against Violence and Exclusion

PROGRAMME, KEY ACCTION

Key Action: Sport

Action Type: Collaborative Partnerships

The project will focus on supporting the implementation of the EU policy regarding the strengthening of the prevention and fight against racism and violence among youth in sport clubs, specifically aiming towards grass root sports, amateur and recreational sport in respect to a number of EU policies, guidelines and recommendations such as White Paper on Sport. The project aims at:
• Defining competencies needed to predict, avoid and cease violence, exclusion and intolerance through sport, using sport as conflict resolution tool.;
• Conflict resolution as a part of future curricula at the Universities and lifelong learning programmes;
• building capacity of sport educational institutions to effectively manage the use of conflict resolution tool;
• Testing of the curricula in cooperation with stakeholders. Adaptation of a new study – program along with new Sport educational programs and studies according to the needs of society and in the line with the EQF and EQF sector at the sport educational institution;
• To facilitate an active dialogue between society, sport association and sport educational institutions.

Specific objectives of the project are:
• Recognize and increase the acquisition of skills and competencies such as discipline, team-work and perseverance through informal learning activities in sport;
• Provide a suitable measure in which determined competencies will ensure better understanding in basic and general concepts of proper social conduct;
• Enable youth to practice sport collectively and in organised structure;
• Support sport clubs which practice grass-root sport in order to increase their services and engage young people in sport;
• Promote dialogue and exchange of best practices by integrating sport competencies in everyday practice;
• Support sport contribution to social cohesion and integrated societies;
• Support inter-cultural dialogue, sense of belonging and participation through key sport competencies