YOUTH-LED STREET SPORTS FOR ALL
MOVE delegates are currently in Copenhagen, Denmark, to kick-off and review the project goals of a collaborative partnership, funded by the Erasmus Plus Sport programme, Youth-led Street Sports for All (YSSA), they will be collaborating on for the next 3 years. The other partners are GAME from Copenhagen (Denmark), who will lead the partnership, the Association for the Social Support of Youth (ARSIS) from Thessaloniki (Greece), Centro Studi e Iniziative Europeo (CESIE) from Palermo (Italy), and VSI Integracijos Centras (Integration Center) from Vilnius (Lithuania).
This partnership aims at increasing participation in sports, strengthen social inclusion and promote voluntary activity among disadvantaged children and youth in their respective countries.
Across Europe, young people are searching for ways to live healthier, to have greater economic opportunity, and to find real and meaningful ways to both belong to society and contribute to it. At the same time, the world is passing through a massive refugee crisis which offers challenges to the social cohesion within and among many European countries.
During the project lifetime, 600 young role models will be trained to reach out to 5,000 peers from underserved communities to invite them to take part in community street sports activities. This will get more young people moving and will help them feel more at home in their local community and society at large: a ripple effect that should create a safer, more active – physically and civically – and cohesive Europe.
As we work with and empower these young people, these five partners will collaborate on best-practices education guides that will help organisations around Europe and the world create innovative outdoor and indoor street sports facilities as hubs for urban sports and youth voluntarism.
The programme will deliver three crucial intellectual outputs:
- a transnational Playmaker (volunteer) curriculum which consists of a package of educational modules
- an online Playmaker Toolbox.
- a street sport facility guide to establish and operate outdoor and indoor sport facilities
