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Learning through Sports
Project Reference:
Learning
through
Sports
“Learning through Sports” (LTS) is an 18-months trans-continental Capacity Building in the field of youth project that aims to develop, test and spread innovative sports tools
Summary
“Learning through Sports” (LTS) is an 18-months trans-continental Capacity Building in the field of youth project that aims to develop, test and spread innovative sports tools, that build-up soft skills in the youth. The project is coordinated by Champions Factory LTD and is involving sport youth organisations from Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Romania.
Objectives
to foster the cooperation and exchange of good practices between 6 organisations from 6 countries from 2 continents
to improve the quality and recognition of youth work by developing, testing and spreading innovative “Learning through sports” tutorials for youth workers
to improve the soft skills in youngsters, who are experiencing crime, participating in crime or are at risk of experiencing crime by involving them in a trans-national non-formal learning mobility.
to raise awareness on the use sports as a powerful tool to reach out youth.
Partners
Champions Factory LTD – coordinato
United Kingdom
Asociatia Liber la educatie, cultura si sport
Romania
Fundacion Grupointernacional de Paz y Desarrollo
Colombia
Engajamundo
Brazil
Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perù
Peru
Champions Factory
Bulgaria
Activities
LTS is created according to the needs of all partner organisations and the youth they work with, alongside with national priorities of the represented in the project countries, the ERASMUS+ Priorities and Youth Policies of the EU. In order to reach the objectives of the project, we have planned the following interrelated and interconnected youth events.
1. Kick-offVenue: London (United Kingdom) with Hosting organisation “Champions Factory LTD”Dates: 7-10 February 2019
2. Job ShadowingVenue: Medellín (Colombia) with Hosting organisation: Fundación Grupo Internacional de Paz y DesarrolloDates: April 2019
3. Training of TrainersVenue: November (Peru) with hosting organisation: BRIGADA DE VOLUNTARIOS BOLIVARIANOS DEL PERUDates: December 2019
4. Youth ExchangeVenue: Sao Paolo (Brazil) with Hosting Organisation EngajamundoDates: February 2020
5. Closing Meeting + Awareness Raising CampaignVenue: Sofia (Bulgaria) with hosting organisation: Champions FactoryDates: May 2020
Innovations
Six professional Online video tutorials of Learning through Sports tools that any youth worker from anywhere in the world can access online and acquire educational sport tools to work with the youngsters in their society. This will serve as online/distance study tool and all will be summarised in (1) LTS Web page, (2) YouTube Channel and (3) Salto-Youth Platform. The video tutorials will be with a maximum length of 20 minutes, depending on the duration of the session with explanations. We find this of a great innovation, because so far there are mostly handbooks and paper documents with explanations, but a video is proved to be easier understood and much faster for the youth worker to acquire.
Video tutorial “Reflection of Learning through sports methods” – reflection is often neglected by youth workers, but in fact it is the most important moment where youngsters realise the learning and how it can be applied in their life. We are going to have it structured in 6 parts:1- Introduction and crucial info of Reflection;2- Objective/Factual;3 -Reflective;4 – Interpretative;5 – Decisional;6 – Summary and tips.All videos will be made with professional cameras and montage!
The video tutorials from 1. and 2. will be explained in a Toolkit “Learning through sports”, so a youth worker can always download it for free from the web-page of the project, print and bring with himself a hardcopy during a youth event he/she organises.
Ambassadors of “Learning through Sports” – Interviews with famous sportsmen in each country, as part of the youth empowerment process. This will serve as awareness rising method and will support the promotion of Sports as a unique tool to build peace. These interviews will be uploaded on project’s web-page, YouTube Channel, on project’s Facebook page and will be circulated in diverse educational platforms around the world.
“Learning through sports” Handbook – collecting sport best practices of tools and programs that the partner organisations are using in their every-day work, short and long term development strategies. The handbook will include practices from Brazil, Romania, United Kingdom, Peru, Colombia and Bulgaria.
Web-site of the project
Results
INPE PRISON VISIT IN PERU
During the Training Course for youth workers in September 2019 in Lima (Peru), hosted by Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perù (BVBP), all delegates of “Learning through sport” Project has the outstanding chance to visit the INPE Prison Lima. During the visit, the prisoners aged 18-24, who were charged with minimum crime sentence, performed a sports spectacle and choreography designed by BVBP Expert Mr. Giovani Sanoni! The spectacle was accompanied by National traditional music from all countries represented in the project: Romania, Bulgaria, UK, Brazil and Colombia.
BODY EXPRESSION
Body expression is part of the dynamic expression integrated into sports and physical education. Therefore, if we divide this phrase into two: Expression – language and Body still meaning body, then body expression is the language of the body.
Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perù (BVBP) has introduced it’s innovative methodology during the Training Course in Lima (Peru).
7P STRATEGY – THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH BY GRUPO INTERNACIONAL DE PAZ
The difficulties of a country affected historically by the armed conflicto and how sport may be a transformation tool that contributes to the reconstruction of a society were addressed above. In this way, the 7P Strategy emerges and takes as a starting point GIP’s experience and the methodologies developed jointly with its allies to promote peace-building and social crime prevention processes.
PATHS TO SOLUTION – THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH BY ENGAJAMUNDO
Paths to Solution is a methodology co-created with the members of the organization, based on Peer to Peer and Problem Based Learning methodologies, as well as our own experiences. This methodology seeks to engage young people on the solutions for our social and environmental problems, with focus on awakening youth on how they can be part of the action to tackle those global issues.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION REFLECTION STRUCTURE – THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH BY CHAMPIONS FACTORY
Reflection is essential and fundamental moment in “Learning through Sports” methodology where youngsters realise the learning and how it can be applied in their life. Reflection gives all participants not only the chance to reflect their own behaviour, but also to reflect on the whole situation and connect it to their everyday lives and to society itself; depending on what topic you aim to tackle with the exercise and how far you go into the reflection process itself.
HOW SPORT HELPS PREVENT CROME AND YOUTH / Community safety – Methodological approach by Champions Factory in cooperation with StreetGames
Based on the Peer to Peer and Problem Based Learning Methodologies, this tool seeks to engage young people in ongoing discussions about global issues in a global context by gamifying a number of other tools to achieve said objective. Community safety workshops aim to:
• To enable participants understand the risk factors around youth crime
• To help participants understand the ten key principles for developing an intervention to address juvenile nuisance and youth crime
• To point out to participants, the key opportunities available for getting involved in youth work.
HANDBOOK WITH GOOD PRACTICES AND TOOLS
Learning through sports has begun gaining traction as an augmentation to current educational curricula, especially in Europe. And there is little reason to wonder why that is so. With the lifelong lessons learned on a football pitch or an ice-covered hockey pitch, amongst peers that suddenly become siblings, the continuity and interaction that education through sports harnesses in the making of model citizens are two of its most useful assets. By encouraging people of youthful age around the world to learn through sports, we push them out, from comfort into learning, and tap into the sense of imagination, adventure, and novelty that is particularly heightened during that life phase.
The partner consortium of “Learning through sports” believes that the work of youth organisations is the key to tackle the above issues, and it is our main objective to provide opportunities for further education and opportunities for social engagement to all young people. We also believe in the power of sports to do so, because the sport is a universal language, a cost-effective and flexible tool in promoting peace, personal and social development.
Coordinator:
Virtual Curricula
Within this section Youth organisations from all around the world can find handy materials developed within aa Virtual self-training curricula for Youth organisations, including a set of educational courses in the form of presentations:
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