Youth SPORT work with different abilities’ youngsters

Start: 01-11-2020 - End: 05-08-2022

Project Reference: 619322-EPP-1-2020-1-BA-EPPKA2-CBY-WB

EU Grant: 140044 EUR

Program: Erasmus+

Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Action Type: Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Sport can help reduce that stigma of disability & discrimination, as it can transform community attitudes about persons with disabilities by highlighting their skills and reducing the tendency to see the disability instead of the person. Through youth sport work and sports, persons without disabilities interact with persons with disabilities in a positive context forcing them to reshape assumptions about what persons with disabilities can and cannot do.

However, NFE educators and youth workers working with this target group often have little or no experience in using sport as an educational tool.

OBJECTIVES:

Support youth workers to develop key competences for using sport methodology in youth work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters.
Enhance knowledge management of youth organisations with new innovative resources & training curricula.
Provide the linkage of youth with other sectors through their cooperation during the SVs and local dissemination events, and thus to further build capacity of our youth organisations for inter-sectoral cooperation.
Develop the competency framework for youth SPORT workers for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters.
Allow youth workers to practice their skills to managing creative youth sport work projects on European and national level, and thus further increase competences of youngsters in inclusion.
Engage into intensive dissemination & exploitation activities of newly produced products and attract more different abilities’ youngsters to our youth sport work activities

Project activities:
- A1 Preparatory meeting
- O1 Handbook “Inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters through NFE and youth work”
- A2 SV Italy
- O2 Curriculum “Inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters through NFE and youth work”
- A3 TC1 based on O2 CurriculumO3 Curriculum “Using sport methodology in NFE and youth work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A4 TC2 based on O3 CurriculumO4 Toolkit “Creativity and innovation – adapting sport methods for inclusion and interaction of different abilities’ youngsters through youth (sport) work”
- A 5,6,7,8,9: Local dissemination events – TCs
- A10 YE “Creativity and innovation in youth SPORT work for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A11 SV Berlin
- O5 Guidebook: “Competency framework for youth SPORT workers for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters”
- A 12,13,14,15,16: Local dissemination events – conferences
- A17 Evaluation meeting
- Reporting and Dissemination

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Youth in local communities will benefit thanks to the empowerment of our participants who will further guide, lead and organise those youngsters to get more active in sport and health-enhancing physical activities for inclusion of different abilities’ youngsters. We expect the increased competences and readiness of young people in communities for taking active stand on fighting exclusion, discrimination and intolerance and promoting inclusion and acceptance of different abilities’ youngsters.

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