Training Course

Bragana, Portugal, 3 9 September 2017

About the project:

Since the Lisbon Treaty the European Union is actively aiming to promote sport
and physical activity at the policy level not only with a view to improving health
and physical wellbeing across the EU, but also to enhance the role that sport can
play in boosting social cohesion and for its educational value. According to the
Eurobarometer survey (2010) on sport, 40% of EU citizens say that they play sport
at least once a week, men in the EU play more sports than women overall. Health
is directly linked to healthy lifestyles and physical activities, and health plays an
important role in well-being of citizens. Youth work and sport for all can provide a
lot of potentials in involving more young people into physical activities that also
provides citizenship education.

Public health gained ground in the European policy agendas in the past years, and
this is reflected in the Erasmus+ Programme through the specific priority of
promoting healthy lifestyles among young people through physical activities,
including sports. Looking beyond the concepts of health, physical activities and
sports, through youth work we explore the concept of Education through Sports
(ETS), using physical and sport activities in order to transfer competences to young
people, thus contributing to the emergence of ETS as a clearly defined youth work
methodology.

As a result of Long Term Training Course granted by Erasmus+ in 2016, some of

the participants and partner organizations designed this project that is aiming at
improving the quality and diversity of youth work and youth projects in Europe by
further developing the specific methodology of Education through Sports (ETS).
The stakeholders believe that this process can result in providing more possibilities
for young people in Europe to get involved in sports and physical activities in a
way that can also provide learning opportunities in relation to life competencies,
social skills and well-being. With this aim in mind the concrete objectives of the
activity will be targeted to sharing experiences and practices in ETS, identifying
areas that need improvement or further development, experimenting and
developing new methods of ETS, recording and disseminating the new methods
(e.g. exercises, educational activities, etc) developed. As such, the Training Course
is meant to contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth
activities and the capabilities of civil society organizations in the youth field, to
promote European cooperation in the youth field and to foster mutual
understanding between young people in different countries.

Participants will be selected in cooperation with the partner organizations. Priority

will be given to those applicants who already have a good understanding of
Education Through Sport approach and who have extensive experience in non-
formal education for and with young people either in sport for all or in youth work
context. Participants will be youth workers, interested in the field of education
through sport aged between 18-45.

There will be one activity in the format of 5 working days Training Course in
Braganca, Portugal the first week of September 2017.The methods of the Training
Course will be based on non-formal education, experiential learning and testing.
Participants will bring their ideas of exercises using sport or physical activity that
provide learning outcomes in relation to any social skills in relation to health,
wellbeing, environment, democracy, human rights, conflict resolution,
participation and cultural diversity. Participants will discuss and develop
educational exercises that will be tested on the group of participants itself. It is
planned that 7-9 exercises will be designed and tested in the seminar. Participants
will learn and practice how to design non-formal learning exercises using sport and
physical activities with different learning outcomes. Participants will be able to
develop their creativity, innovative thinking and facilitating competencies.

The new exercises will enrich the methodological palette of youth work and sport
for all domains in Europe so more and more young people will be provided by the
possibility of learning through sport and physical activities.
The results will be communicated to the Council of Europe as well as the European
Commission.
Practical informations:

Every partner will send 4 youth workers, interested in the field of education
through sport aged between 18-45.
Travel budget limit is 360 euro for every country.
Please dont forget to keep your invoices, boarding passes and original tickets for
reimbursement, because we cant do that without them.
The closest airport is Porto, if all the team will arrive with the same flight, we can
arrange the transfer to Braganca but please let us know in advance.
You can arrive also in Lisbon if you dont have good and cheap flights with Porto
but you have to arrange the transfer by yourself by bus or train.

For further informations well come back soon with, thank you in advance for your
patience!