Kick off meeting
12-13 November – Bilbao - Spain
Partners of the European project “ACTIV in Sport”, coordinated by AICEM, gathered in Bilbao to establish the managment guidelines for the upcoming project. The partners, which include AICEM (Italy), ASKT (Spain), Comitato Regionale Lazioe della Croce Rossa Italiana (Italy) and SOJOVEM (Portugal) met at the Municipality of Bilbao meeting room on November 11th with the aim to identify the next steps and enhance the project impact amongst the communities.
WHAT WILL BE NEXT?
ACTIV in sport in is looking to enhance volunteerism in sport activities as a way to promote social inclusion in suburb areas and small villages. The meeting started with each organization presenting themselves and the work they have completed in the past.
Later in the day, partners worked on defining the next steps, creating a timeline, and delegating a division of tasks. Members of the meeting all pitched ideas for the precautionary measures to finding suitable candidates to implement ACTIV in sport. During the afternoon of 12th Novemebr, the partners visited the Foundation of Athletic Bilbao in order to present the project and open the call for participants in order to find the participants from the network of Athletic Bilbao Foundation.
Concerning next steps, after a training course that will be held in Italy in December, the following months will see participants implementing pilot activities in their national contexts of the three countries. Feedbacks from the pilot activities will be collected in Portugal during April 2020. The final result of the project will be shared in Solferino in June 2020.
FOLLOW THE NEXT STEPS
The project ‘ACTIV in sport’ will last 18 months and officially end in June 2020.
Stay tuned and follow the next steps of the project and discover how you can be involved!
Training Course
5-7 December – Roma - Italy
ACTIV in sport: First training course complete and extremely successful!
Participants gathered in Italy to train and hone in skills to promote and include new volunteers ins sport and foster inclusion.
On December 5tht, 2019, 21 participants of ACTIV came from Portugal, Italy and Spain to complete this training course. This training course took part in Roma in the peripheral neighborhood close to Ciampino. The mission of the training course was to share with ACTIV in Sport participants good practices and methods on how to create activities that promote volunteering and increased participation amongst young people in sports. The training course consisted of multiple presentations of experts and good practices, activities to integrate a new methodology, and reflection to implement the best tactics to create a positive experience for their volunteers at local level.
START TO FINISH… What was accomplished?
The start of the training course began with an introduction of all its participants to grow more familiar with each other. Then a plenary interactive presentation started in order to introduce the good practices collected by the partners. In some cases, the expert and the organization that are implementing those good practices where present to talk and to interact with the participants in order to reply to their questions and create connection for suture cooperation. In particular, following the presentation of SOJOVEM, Italian Red Cross and ASKT, some experts were invited as representative of Special Olympics Italia, of Scout of Rome and of ACLI Italia – sport department. At the plenary were also invited a group of young people coming from different youth organization from EU context participating in a project about youth participation, in order to create a deeper exchange among ACTIV in sport Participants and those youth organization in order for them to get more inputs from young people how they deal with volunteers in their own countries and have a wider perspective to create the pilot activities once the TC is finished.
After the plenary, once familiar, participants split between two groups to begin the training course. The first group listened to a presentation from representative of the organization SOJOVEM, while the second group engaged in some methodology for inclusion used by ASKT. Once each group completed the given task, they switched roles to make sure everyone received the same experience and information.
After completing the first two activities, participants started the reflection process back in their national group. Participants were given the opportunity to analyze both the presentation and training activity they were hoisted into. For example, participants had to reflect on what happened and how they could use and adapt the given situation in their reality. Once their reflection period was over, the participants presented their ideas and choose among the two mentors (SOJOVEM and ASKT) to received professional feedback on the correct procedures to implement their activities at local level and to start the monitoring system with them.
The next day, participants created a clear structure of their own activities based on what they wanted to implement. Once they came up with activities, they were given the chance to share these activities with each other and receive feedback. This feedback allowed participants to brainstorm different variations of their activities, as well as alternative approaches to the activity. The multiple variations and approaches taught participants how to adapt on the fly when they introduce their activity. A clear monitoring system was created, different for each mentor, in order to check the implementation of the
PARTICIPANTS FINAL TAKE-AWAY AND TEST
After undergoing multiple days of training, participants got the chance to put their newfound skills, thoughts, and activities to test. Participants were brought to football field and were introduced to a local team. Participants proceeded to introduce the activities they worked on the day before to the athletes and made a football match.
Once this process was complete, participants took part in a final reflection of their activities and the whole training course. Participants were encouraged to reflect back on their experience, on what worked, what did not, and how they will go about changing and eventually implementing their activity. If their activity proves successful in the next few months, it will eventually become part of the toolkit to be used for years to come.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR ACTIV in Sport Project?
ACTIV in sport Project has a lot in store for its 2020 campaign. Next May, ACTIV in Sport will be hosting the second training course for the participants. This course will act as an evaluation of the past couple months, how well the process is going and what areas to improve. These participants are highly motivated teachers, coaches, students, etc., that will promote the growth of volunteering in sports in their community. The growth of sports thought volunteering in special needs community will enhance the wellbeing of every athlete as well as every individual involved. ACTIV in Sport Project is committed to making the world a better place and is excited to see how these trained professionals will implement this goal across Europe!
If you have any question, please, do not hesitate to contact sara.massini@aicem.it
Covid Suspension
30 March 2020
ACTIV in sport: obligatory suspension for the pandemic emergency!
Following the restrictive measures operated by all governments in UE the suggestion from the EU offices is to suspend all the project activities.
The pilot activities will start again when the emergency will be finished.
For any information please contact info@aicem.it
Pilot activites
30 September 2020
ACTIV in sport: participants realised the pilot activites!
Afeter the elimination of the restrictive measures gradually operated by all governments in UE in last June 2020, the participants of the project Activ in Sport manged to realise some of the pilot activities that ideated during the training course in Rome in December 2019.
So far they manged to realise several activities in Italy and in Portugal. You can find all the activities in the following link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MrPToIzDcK7Z81P6NDQ9yuYQWinCaRlo?usp=sharing
We will start preparing to have our evaluation event and final event by next November and December 2020.
For any information please contact info@aicem.it
New Covid Suspension
10 October 2020
ACTIV in sport: new obligatory suspension for the pandemic emergency!
Due to the new covid wave that is affecting all European countries and the restrictive measures operated by all governments in UE the suggestion from the EU offices is to suspend all the project activities.
Our project will be suspended until March 2021.
For any information please contact info@aicem.it
Activ in Sport is ready to go
1 April 2021
Following the new covid wave that is affected all European countries and the restrictive measures operated by all governments in UE the project was suspended.
The national teams of ACTIV, Italy, Spain and Portugal, are collecting the final data related to their pilot activities. At the end of May 2021 beginning of June 2021 we will gather again to have the 3rd meeting, an evaluation meeting to check the outcome of the pilot activities, work on the final toolkit and prepare the final event.
Stay tuned!
For any information please contact info@aicem.it
The 3rd ACTIV meeting
1 june 2021
ACTIV in sport: the 3rd partner meeting will be in Porto, Portugal!
After the final confirmation from the security measure issued by the government, the ACTIV Team managed to organize the 3rd evaluation meeting in Portugal.
The meeting will be implemented in Porto, head quarter of SOJOVEM, on 18th and 19th of June 2021.
The Italian and Spanish delegation are ready to present the results of their local activties.
Stay tuned!
For any information please contact info@aicem.it
ACTIV meeting & final conference
18-19 June 2021 - Porto - Portugal
ACTIV in sport: the 3rd meeting successfully happened and we go straight to the final event!
On 18th and 19th of June 2021, in Porto Portugal, the 3rd meeting of ACTIVE was successfully implemented.
The Italian and Spanish delegation arrived in Porto on 18th in the evening and after a nice joint dinner and a session of interviews for the toolkit, on the 19th they started to analyse the outcomes of the pilot activities in order to create the final toolkit.
Following the decision taken by the coordinators of the project, only the participants that where really active after the training course could concretely participate in the last activities of the project.
On this basis, the list of the participants for the final event was done.
At this point, the representative of Red Cross Lazio presented the work she did for the final event.
Due to the pandemic, the international event of Italian Red Cross in Solferino was canceled both in its 2020 and 2021 edition: for this reason they decided to involve one of their partner, OPES Italia, that had instead the chance to organize a big national sport event in Roma. The event was set as the occasion where to realize the final event of ACTIV and present the final toolkit to a wider public in the sport movement.
On this basis, the final event of ACTIV in Sport will be realized on 26th and 27th of June 2021 in Roma, at the Roma Sport Experience event venue, located at Parco Cinecittà World.
Watch, here below, the interviews realized during the event in Porto and stay tuned to see the final event in Roma for the conclusion of the project ACTIV in Sport co-funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme Sport.
For any information, please contact info@aicem.it
ACTIV the final conference
26-27 June 2021 - Roma - Italy
ACTIV in sport: final event successfully held!
Last 26th and 27th of June 2021, in Roma, during the implementation of the event Roma Sport Experience 2021 located at Parco Cinecittà World, the final event of the project ACTIV in Sport was successfully held.
The Portuguese and Spanish delegations, respectively with 7 participants and 8 participants, arrived in Rome on 26th in the afternoon and after a nice joint dinner and cultural evening, on the 27th they started to present the outcomes of the project and the final toolkit was published.
The teams at the final events, as agreed by the coordinators during the training course and the third meeting, were composed by the participants trained in Rome during the TC of ACTIV project who really implemented the pilot activities, and by the new volunteers and target group involved by the pilot activities itself.
The final event of ACTIV in Sport was a great success, all the three pilot programs presented by the 3 national teams were very successful and all the three are still running and will run even after the end of the project.
All the participants were very touched by the project that really gave them the chance of testing something new and provide new opportunity of participation for young people, people with mental disorder and people from rural areas. The toolkit collected all the experiences gained during the project and will be helpful for other organization around Europe to repeat the same activity to increase the volunteering in sport fo societal change.
Watch the interviews realized during the event and the final toolkit of the project ACTIV in Sport co-funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme Sport.
For any information, please contact info@aicem.it
