Project

The Green Sports Games is an European project under the Erasmus + Action Sport Program and has partners from Bulgaria – Champions Factory Sports Club, Slovenia – Zavod za šport Slovenske Konjice, Turkey – Academy Culture And Education Association and Italy – Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica “Polisportiva 2001″. União das Freguesias de Gondomar (S. Cosme), Valbom e Jovim is the coordinating institution of the project.

This project is very much in line with the priorities of the Erasmus+ programme for the actions to be developed under the field of Sports with the focus given to grassroots sport. It aims, above all, to “Promote education in and through sport with special focus on skills Development” and, in particular, as an impact method in human behavior for a greater critical awareness and environmental sustainability.

Moreover, this project is designed from a bottom-up approach, and by this in terms of sport grassroots level and movement, to promote local and community synergies for a more environmentally friendly policy of good sports governance practice viewed as Community values and Cultural drivers (direct action in cognitive socio-behavioral domains).

So, this project is designed, in a non-formal way, to:

• To enable young people, youth workers and sports grassroots organizations, to develop a limited set of measures, actions and “green flags” initiatives strictly associated with the local practice sports and games, promoting sports for doubly healthy earnings (lifestyle and environmental policy);
• Create at grassroots level, points or spots where the “green flags” initiatives & Grassroots Green Sports campaigns strictly associated with the local practice of sports and games will be held by local Stakeholders (grassroots movement);
• To increase the sense of belonging and the sense of community for the individual in their local community through their direct and active participation and empowerment obtained through the practice of sports and games associated with the practice of an environmental policy with impact on the life of the citizen and his community in particular in urban spaces;
• Building empowered and committed Green Sports Games grassroots communities to increase the processes of citizen participation and empower them for the environmental challenges that in today’s EU regions are facing and where the paradigm of formal education is not enough to cover such challenges.

The project activities and according to Erasmus+ programme guide, were designed to embrace:

• Development, identification, promotion and sharing of good practices;
• Preparation, development and implementation of educational and training materials and tools;
• Networking among stakeholders;
• Awareness-raising activities on the added value of sport and physical activity in relation to the personal, social and professional development of individuals, as well;
• Activities to promote innovative synergies between the field of sport and the fields of health, environment, non-formal education, training and youth.

This collaborative partnership and its plan of activities intend to fully contribute to the implementation, at a grassroot level, of the EU Physical Activity Guidelines, training multipliers (non-professionals and volunteers) to put into practice tailored made plans for the practice of innovative synergies (as a supported activities).

Objectives

Overall Objective: Promote non-formal education in and through sport with special focus on skills development and by that changing human behavior or attitudes for a greater critical environmental awareness.

Specific Objectives:

1. Through sports and games grassroots organizations, contribute to a good Governance of sport at the local level associated with the consciousness of the finitude of natural environmental resources, empowering local settings where individuals as well youth workers and grassroots organizations are inserted (here good Governance viewed as Community values and Cultural drivers);
2. Through a more critical sportive practice awareness for the finitude of environmental resources, create a sense of belonging around the innovative concept of “Green Sports Games” and with that, at Sport grassroots level create a movement to meet the environmental requirements/challenges that the EU propose to all without exception.