Sports as a tool for education and inclusion

Aims & objectives

The main aim will be to explore the use of sport as an educational tool for social inclusion
The goals will be:
• To discover, test and develop tools for using Sport as an educational Tools for inclusion.
• To reflect and analyses about the transferability of the different educational tools.
• To provide information and create ideas for project on the frame of Youth Erasmus+ Programme.
• To build a broader understanding of what an inclusive attitude means.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

20 participants from all of the Programme Countries. 20-50 aged adults who are:
youth leaders, youth workers or representatives of NGOs, community centers, youth clubs, schools, local authorities, local governments or other public institutions, non-formal groups of young people that have a mandate to enter into a partnership with other organizations/groups, willing to support youth in preparing and carrying out transnational projects, motivation towards sports and social inclusion environments, able to communicate easily and work in English.

Training methods used & main activities

The methods used in the training course were based on non formal education. Debates, workshops, presentations, games, reflections, etc. Some of them individual and some in small groups.

Outcomes of the activity

- Exchange of good practises among participants that lead to a better quality of their youth work.
- 4 modified games/activities using sports and phisical activites adapted to be inclusive
- Around 7 potential future youth projects

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was full time trainer all the TC together with Sasha Graefe from Germany.

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.