In communities across Europe young people experience a general lack of opportunities with issues such as poor health, youth unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. At the same time, the world is passing through the biggest refugee crisis since the end of the World War II. This has led to an increased tension which arguably challenges the social cohesion within many European member states.
It is important to promote voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in, and equal access to, sport for all.
Youth-led Street Sport for All – YSSA is a new 3 years’ project that aims at developing a framework to address the lack of opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth through street sports in Italy, Greece, Malta, Lithuania and Denmark.
The project partners intend to achieve the preset objectives:
- training young role models to reach out kids participating in their community street sports activities;
- increasing the level of physical activity in the target communities and include marginalized and currently not physically active groups in sports;
- Helping marginalized kids increasingly feel more at home in their local community and society at large – a ripple effect that can create a safer, more active and cohesive Europe.
The means to allow for this will be the development of three crucial intellectual outputs, namely
- a Playmaker Education Curriculum;
- an Online Playmaker Toolbox;
- a Street Sports Facility Guide.
The YSSA kick-off meeting was held on 12th and 13th February 2018 in Copenhagen (Denmark) with other partners from Malta, Lithuania, Greece and Denmark. In the next months, partners will work together on the development of the Playmaker education curriculum and Online playmaker toolbox for basketball, football, dance, parkour.
The Curriculum and the toolbox will be tested in each country in 2019.
YSSA is three years project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Sport: Support to Collaborative Partnerships.
The partnership is made up five partners:
- Coordinator: GAME Denmark (Denmark)
- MOVE (Malta)
- ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth (Greece)
- VsI Integracijos Centras (Lithuania)
- CESIE (Italy)
For further information, please contact youth@cesie.org
