Good Practices Collection: How to combine sport and protection of the environment

Aims of the tool

The aim has been to analyze, identify and collect good practices, recommendations, and resources about existing programs. The publication can serve as an inspiration for the integration of the environmental aspects into the sport, especially at the grassroots level.

Description of the tool

There are various activities that can be organized combining sport and physical activities with enviro actions. In recent years, there were new types of activities developed and promoted in order to tackle both – lack of physical activities of people, but also increasing pollution of our nature, beaches, forests....

Thus, this publication consists of the analysis and the best practice collection of the eco-friendly events and methods. The aim of the output has been to analyze, identify and share good practices and recommendations and collect resources about existing nature and sport training programs.

This publication consists of the following parts:

1. EVENTS combining sport and physical activities with enviro actions which has been already organized in project partners´ countries. Each partner organisation found diverse types of events involving various physical activities.

2. NON-FORMAL EDUCATION METHODS which combine sport and protection of the environment, that have been already developed and implemented in other project partners countries or beyond.

3. OTHER ACTIVITIES AND CAMPAIGNS in the field of environment and sport that does not belong to previous two categories – for example online campaigns.

At the end of the publication, there is a summary of the situation regarding the implementation of such programs in each partner country. The summary also evaluates the most interesting aspects of those programs that might be used during similar future events. In addition, the project consortium conducted the survey among sport and environmental associations, clubs and other institutions, which have experiences with the organization of eco-friendly sport events. The summary contains an outline of the results of this survey and gathered opinions, advices, recommendations, identified weaknesses or strengths of the events or the methods used.

Publication has been developed as part of the project "Eco-Friendly Sports" (www.ecofriendlysport.eu), co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme.