CP BIG SPORT GITG
GITG
Get In The Game
As shown in the Eurobarometer 472, in the EU, men exercise, play sport or engage in other physical activity more than women. Although young people are among the most active part of the European population, young girls still participate far less than young males. 6% of young women aged 15-24 engage regularly in physical activity, as compared to 12% of young males 15-24. Similarly, 33% of young girls never engage in PE (15 % of young males). Involving young girls in sports is thus necessary, as it will allow them to develop skills and important attitudes of self-fulfilment, while at the same time providing crucial opportunities of engagement and involvement in society. While gender inequalities in participation rates are an issue for all sports, this is particularly true of certain sports that are traditionally associated with men. GITG promotes access to team sports activities directly through school, that is the easiest and most direct way to provide different proposals in order to involve young girls who seldomly show interest in sports for several reasons like feeling uncomfortable, inadequate or frightened of social confrontation.
Start: 01.01.2023 End: 30.06.2025
Project Reference: 101089786
EU Grant: 250.000 €
Programme: ERASMUS – LS
Key Actions: Cooperation partnerships
Action Type: Coperation Partnership in Sport
PROJECT PARTNERS
- Racing Club de Cannes (Coordinator) – France
- ASD Sport Compass – Italy
- Federazione Italiana Pallavolo – Italy
- Keravnos Larissas bc – Cyprus
- Kosarkaski Savez Grada Nisa – Serbia
- Associacao Dos Profissionais de Educacao Fisica e Desporto Do Porto – Portugal
PROJECT TOPICS:
The project presented teachers, staff, and youth workers with new approaches to learning and learning methods, digital content, technologies and applications, supportive pedagogy and didactic approaches.
TARGET GROUPS:
The target groups of the project were:
- Sport stakeholders, policymakers, NGOs, educational providers, public authorities, experts in the field of Sport and general public.
PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES:
– Perform a research of good practices of promotion of equal opportunities in Sport for youngsters. The research focused on the best practices for the inclusion in sports of young girls through online/offline social campaigning.
– Develop a Training Toolkit for teachers and trainers in charge of providing sports activities at school, aimed at developing inclusive, egalitarian and engaging sport activities in order of empowering young girls to play a protagonist role in sports.
– Organize local activities during which teachers and trainers carried out online and offline awareness-raising activities for youth, local community and local sport/youth stakeholders
APPROACH / METHODOLOGY:
The methodology of the project delivered high standards of quality by drawing a progression of activities wherein all the needed steps for achieving the project’s aim were comprised in a coherent and mutually connected pattern entailing research, production of a training format grounded on factual analysis, educational development, local testing and validation.
DELIVERABLES
1) Report: The Report serves as a reference resource for Sport organizations and Schools, as well as policy makers to profile the phenomenon of inclusion of young girls in Sports, along to the promotion of equal opportunities in Sports. The Report includes up-to-date evidence that will allow the analysis of similarities and differences between countries part of the Consortium. It was sustained through complementary research in the frame of follow-up proposals.
2) Training Format: The Training Format contains information and tools of Non-Formal Education as well as sport for teachers and trainers working with young girls in educational programmes focused on promoting inclusive, egalitarian and engaging sports activities. It was originated from the crossanalysis contained in the Research Report and its aim is the enhancement of the abilities of Sport operators to stimulate the participation of young girls into Sport. It was tested in the frame of local activities of WP2 and, upon its finalisation, integrated within the regular offer of the involved partners.
3) Social Campaigning Guidebook: The Guidebook is a resource conceived for an audience of sports teacher and trainers planning to engage in online as well as offline social campaigns on promoting inclusive and engaging sports activities, with a main focus placed on gender equity. The Guidebook provides practical and theoretical Guidance on social campaigning on the specific topic of girls’ inclusion and participation into sports.
4) Web platform and E-Modules: The Modules – extracted from the Guidebook – are multilingual and integrated on a discreet project multilingual Sport Meeting Platform. It is a digital resource, which is conceived as a practical tool for girls to link with each other, communicate, create groups and organise matches, activities or tournaments, thus representing an opportunity for young girls to play outside of official clubs and federations activities. The Sport Meeting Web Platform stimulates young girls’ organisational skills and autonomy, since it will enable them to manage their free time independently.
PROJECT MEETINGS:
The Transnational Project meetings were the following:
Kick-off Meeting (M1)
Hosting: Racing Club de Cannes
Venue: Cannes, France
The meeting served to initiate the cooperation approving the Partnership Agreement and the Project’s Plans. The coordinator introduced the project to all through presentation and reminde all partners the procedures for financial transfers within the Consortium as well as about the eligibility conditions to be satisfied from the side of expenses.
Mid-Term Transnational Partners Meeting (M12)
Hosting: Keravnoss Larissas BC
Venue: Volos, Greece
The meeting was a meeting of intermediate evaluation wherein partner organizations discussed and approved the Intermediate Evaluation Report produced by the Quality Manager.
Final Evaluation Meeting (M24)
Hosting: Associacao Dos Profissionais de Educacao Fisica e Desporto Do Porto
Venue: Porto, Portugal
The final event brought together partners, stakeholders and participants to celebrate the achievements of the project. It served as a platform to reflect on our journey, celebrate successes and lay the groundwork for future initiatives.
DISSEMINATION EVENTS
Dissemination actions were the following:
- Elaboration of Dissemination Plan
- Creation of project identity (Logo, Facebook Page, Website and Instagram Profile)
- Promotion of activities and outputs
- Production and diffusion of physical promotional materials about the project in all partner countries.
- Implementation of national Dissemination Conferences.
