Erasmus+ Capacity Building youth – Western Balkans
Funded by: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
Project duration: 01/10/2015 – 30/06/2016
Activity dates: 24/11/2015 – 02/12/2015
Summary:
Training course “Coordinating large-scale youth sport work events for inclusion” aimed to empower our youth workers willing to develop and organise large-scale events with sport and health-enhancing physical activities with youngsters with fewer opportunities in their communities. It gathered 32 participants, trainers and staff from 11 countries (Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, FYR Macedonia, Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus and Spain), it lasted 8 days and was held in Novi Sad, Serbia in November/December 2015.
Objectives of the project were:
- Exchange realities on sports and youth work for inclusion
- Promote the concept “Sports for all” and personal development through sports
- Exchange sport methods and games
- Define target groups of youths with fewer opportunities and discuss how sport can lead to inclusion
- Discuss benefits of and barriers to sport for these target groups
- Achieve common understanding of Large-scale youth sport work events and agree upon quality criteria and standards for organising those
- Raise competences in managing such events
- Envision and start developing ideas for specific large-scale youth sport work events with youngsters with fewer opportunities in our communities
- Learn how we can use the Erasmus+ Youth in Action for promotion of sport and health-enhancing physical activities in youth work for inclusion
- Develop new projects and future European level cooperation
Training course was based on approach and principles of non-formal education (NFE) with regular NFE methods and some sport activities.
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