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Exercise, Ice-breaker, Group Building Activity
Sports Bag
The Sports Bag is a core educational and practical toolkit developed within the SISTERS project to support trainers and facilitators in delivering training activities both for sports coaches and athletes.
Aims of the tool
The Sports Bag training aims to:
- strengthen participants’ gender and LGBTQIA+ sensitivity;
- equip participants to recognise and effectively address gender-based discrimination;
- support the adoption and promotion of inclusive and equitable practices in sports;
- contribute to more equitable and inclusive sports governance
Description of the tool
The Sports Bag supports learning by combining theoretical grounding, non-formal education methods, experiential activities, and guided reflection, enabling participants to critically engage with issues of gender inequality, LGBTQIA+ exclusion, discrimination, and gender-based violence in sport.
The toolkit promotes gender- and LGBTQIA+-inclusive approaches by addressing both structural and everyday dimensions of sports environments. It supports participants in recognising how norms, policies, leadership practices, team cultures, and communication styles can reproduce exclusion, while also providing concrete tools to foster safe, respectful, and inclusive sports spaces.
The Sports Bag bridges the gap between theory and practice, supporting participants in applying learning outcomes directly to their professional roles or sporting contexts.
Upon the completion of the Sports Bag training programme, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of key concepts related to gender equality, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and intersectionality in sports.
- Identify structural inequalities, discriminatory practices, and gender-based violence within sports governance and practice.
- Apply inclusive communication, safeguarding principles, and ethical decision-making in sports settings.
- Critically reflect on personal attitudes, roles, and responsibilities as athletes, coaches, trainers, or sports practitioners.
- Develop and implement practical actions and strategies that promote inclusive, safe, and equitable sports environments.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5530
This tool is for
The Sports Bag supports the delivery of two complementary learning paths, each tailored to the needs, roles, and responsibilities of different participant profiles. Target group 1: Trainers, coaches, managers, and sports practitioners Target group 2: Athletes and players
and addresses
Group Dynamics, Gender issues
It is recommended for use in:
Capacity Building
Materials needed:
Handouts included in the Sports Bag
Duration:
8 hours of learning
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
CESIE ETS, Porto Football Association, Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures, Champions Factory, Symplexis, Center for Social Innovation
in the context of
SISTERS (FoStering Gender and LGBTQIA+ Equity in Sports through an Intersectional Approach) project, funded under the Erasmus+ Sport 2024 program
The tool has been experimented in
Training
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Nuria Casablanca (on 19 March 2026)
and last modified
17 March 2026
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