Rural Areas and Sport Inclusion

22/06/2022

The last activities of our two day project meeting in Slovakia were particularly dynamic👉🏻 after trying out some peculiar bikes 🚲 provided by the locals of Kravany and Dunajom, we were divided into 🛶 two boats and (re)discovered the beauty of the Danube River🌊, a perfect time for understanding the local tradition of water sports, competitions and tours.
Later, we visited the home of a small, local rural team, witnessed and even took part in the game⚽️ such is the power of sport in inclusion.

14/06/2022

👉🏻 The first activity of today was a meeting with the Gabor Duka, the Mayor of 📍Kravany nad Dunajom, a beautiful village on the bank of the 🌊 Danube River. 🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏽He made the project team aware of the importance of personal commitment and sports as a means for community development, particularly in rural areas. Our team was eager to learn more & see the living example of a community united through sport. 🇪🇺

13/06/2022

👀 The Romanian Humanist Association (Asociația Umanistă Română) 🇷🇴 recently carried out a raising awareness 🗣 activity related to the project results, when 👥 stakeholders, coaches and members of the local community 🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏽learned about the opportunities of ⚽️ sport as a tool for soft skills development and social inclusion.

👉🏻We promoted to the attendees the opportunities of the Erasmus+ Program 🇪🇺, encouraging them to participate in other such projects.🫵🏼

03/05/2022

☀️ The good weather in Poiana Țapului, in Prahova county 🇷🇴, gave Asociația Umanistă Română a good chance of spreading positive sports values and practices with the youth of that community.

🧠 Values such as fairplay, inclusion and celebration of diversity have been discussed and their importance has been highlighted through the lens of sporting activities. Safe physical activities and conduct examples have been given to the young participants, as well as ways to better communicate and connect with their community through sports.

⚽️ The activity peaked with a football match, marking a memorable day, the young participants being more knowledgeable in the field of safe sports practices, communication within their community and how to connect with the European community 🇪🇺 and benefit from its opportunities through the ErasmusPLUS programme.

24/04/2022

The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Nuria Flores Redondo, together with the Director of Sports of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Ricardo Leiva, visited CEIP Francisco Montero de Espinosa de Almendralejo for one of the sessions of the educational program 'Tod@ s Olímpic@s' that the COE is developed in different educational centers in Extremadura with talks and activities given by athletes from the region, thanks to the coordination of the Youth and Sports Foundation of the Junta de Extremadura.

The head of Culture, Tourism and Sports has recalled that in this course there will be 51 schools in the region that will host these sessions within their lesson plans until June, "giving space to something that we believe is very important, such as education. transversal in values, using sport as a vehicle and, in this case, something as important and full of great teachings as Olympism and everything that surrounds it”.

The counselor thanked the COE for the trust "in our work to bring this program to our autonomous community again, which has already reached six consecutive editions in our educational centers."

Flores has highlighted to the students the importance of sharing this type of initiative with leading athletes, such as Houssame Benabbou and Laura Campos, athletes from Extremadura that the COE has selected to teach the theoretical-practical activities of the program.

The counselor has also celebrated being able to return in person to the classrooms and resume the usual methodology of the program, which was maintained last year and developed online.

For his part, the Sports Director of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Ricardo Leiva, recalled that sports dissemination is a key element for social programs, the objective of 'Tod@s Olímpic@s' being to promote the practice of sports as a methodology of inclusion taking advantage of its principles and values ​​to promote positive behaviors, so the continuity of this project is essential for the COE.

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21/04/2022

'More than fencing', which will start operating in the capital of Ciudad Real "so that no young person is left out of the game". This was announced by the president of the Ciudad Real Fencing Club, Antonio Muñoz, accompanied by the Councilor for Sports. The act has presented the agreement of the Fencing Club of the capital endorsed by the federation with the aim of developing the project. This agreement, signed this year and which will end in 2030, "will have a great effect on the city's schools and on people who can't participate in sports," said Gallego, who highlighted the importance of offering sports in spaces "where is usually there" while he commented that the Ciudad Real Club will work "with children and adults". The program will be developed in Ciudad Real with 20 boys and girls from one-line schools, two two-line schools and another three-line school and they will try to implement, in the first phase, a second stage in which to value sport female. During the first stage, they will work with children from 8 to 12 years old and during the second, with high school youth whose objective is "to be useful for their personal development and studies." "We will try to get girls from Ciudad Real institutes to join in September because it complements the support for women's sports," Muñoz highlighted. PIONEER PROGRAM In addition, he has said that it is a pioneer program, which also includes boys and girls with physical disabilities and also with hearing and visual disabilities. The activities, which will take place at the Ciudad Real Fencing Club, will accompany boys and girls from Primary and Secondary as he has announced. "This will help ensure that no child is left out of the game and that sport helps them to be better people in their studies." For his part, Abajo has said that he "owes a lot" to fencing and that it is time to return everything he has given him with initiatives like this one. "On a mental level, sport gives you tools that you can take advantage of in your life, such as emotional management," he said, adding that "helping children and young people in social exclusion can push them to find these tools in sport."

14/04/2022

Last Tuesday, on April 12th, the association Travelogue APS implemented a workshop in San Venanzo ( ) with the pupils of the Primary School.
It consisted of a and activity, with the aim of promoting sport and physical activity for youngsters and to increase their knowledge about the importance of the for our and .
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Last Tuesday, on April 12th, the association Travelogue APS implemented a workshop in San Venanzo (Italy) with the pupils of the Primary School.
It consisted of a sport and learning activity, with the aim of promoting sport and physical activity for youngsters and to increase their knowledge about the importance of the bees for our environment and biodiversity.

14/04/2022

12/04/2022

On 2 April the 2nd local activity of the Slovak partner, Pimpimpáré Játszóház Bart was held. It was a table tennis championship for kids and youngsters. Even those who has never played this sport before could try it. Not only the winners were rewarded by prizes and certificate but all participants got a gymsack and certificate. The organizators hope that this competition can be organized annually and more and more children, teenagers will be interested in this nice sport and join the event.

10/04/2022

Today we are about to share with you this incredibly important article about how sport can change someone else's life. Enjoy the read! 🤗

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03/04/2022

Beyond the school, the implementation of social inclusion initiatives focused on physical activity and sports, is one of the great fields from which to work on social and educational inclusion.

Projects such as those derived from the Street Games, so fashionable among youth, contribute to the physical and social development of those who practice it, generating new meeting spaces for citizens. In addition, initiatives such as the CDAS (Social Action Sports Command), which combine cultural development with sports practice; the development of sports spaces to overcome conflicts, such as the one carried out by Almería Acoge; and initiatives for the promotion of coexistence, such as the one developed in GOIAN, represent new ways of working from physical activity and sports in the construction of a more egalitarian society committed to the social and cultural environment. Even in environments as complicated as Penitentiary Centers, sport represents a way of overcoming difficulties, and even a reinforcement towards future social insertion.

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