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ERASMUS+

Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2021-2027. Education, training, youth and sport are key areas that support citizens in their personal and professional development. High quality, inclusive education and training, as well as informal and non-formal learning, ultimately equip young people and participants of all ages with the qualifications and skills needed for their meaningful participation in democratic society, intercultural understanding and successful transition in the labour market. Building on the success of the programme in the period 2014-2020, Erasmus+ strengthens its efforts to increase the opportunities offered to more participants and to a wider range of organisations, focusing on its qualitative impact and contributing to more inclusive and cohesive, greener and digitally fit societies.

 

KEY ACTION 2 – COOPERATION AMONG ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

This Key Action supports:

Partnerships for Cooperation:

  • Cooperation Partnerships. Areas: Higher Education, School Education, Vocational Training, Adult Education, Youth, Sport and European Education.
  • Small-scale Partnerships. Areas: All mentioned in the previous action, except Higher Education.

Agencies that handle applications:

More information: Erasmus+ Guide

Partnerships for Excellence:

Partnerships for Innovation:

  • Alliances for Innovation: With the call for alliances for innovation, projects are encouraged that contribute to designing a new, more active role for higher education and vocational training institutions in their socioeconomic environment, by developing innovation ecosystems together with companies.
    • Alliances for Education and Business
    • Alliances for sectoral cooperation on capabilities
  • Forward-looking Projects: This action will aim to foster innovation, creativity and e-participation, as well as social entrepreneurship in different fields of education, training, youth and sport. It will support forwardlooking ideas based around key European priorities, and that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed and giving input for improving education and training, youth and sport systems, as well as to bring a substantial innovative effect in terms of methods and practices to all types of learning and active participation settings for Europe's social cohesion.
  • Capacity Building projects in the field of youth: this action supports cooperation and exchange in the field of youth between Programme and Partner Country organisations and covers non-formal learning activities, with a focus on raising the capacity of organisations working with young people outside formal learning, while ensuring the active participation of young people. 
  • Not-for-profit sport events: This action will support the preparation, organisation and follow up of not-for-profit sport events, organised either in one single country or in several countries by not-for-profit organisations or public bodies active in the field of sport. These events will aim at increasing the visibility of the Erasmus+ sport actions as well as raise awareness on the role of sport in promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities and health-enhancing physical activities.

 

KEY ACTION 3 – SUPPORT TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION

This Key Action supports:

European Youth Together

European Youth Tigether funds projects to foster connections between organizations that are active in the field of youth and work at the local level (rural areas, cities, regions, and countries) within Program countries. 

Jean Monnet Actions

The aim here is to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union (EU) studies. They allow the development of new teaching modules, the establishment of Chairs or the creation of centres of excellence in studies on the European Union, as understood in a broad sense.

 

 

ERASMUS + Projects

ALLSTARS - Good Practice for Active Lifestyles in Local Sports Policies – Governing the integration of marginalized groups in sports

Specific programme: ERASMUS-SPORT-2023-SCP

Research team:

Coordinator:

  • DEUTSCHE SPORTHOCHSCHULE KOLN - DSHS KOLN (Germany);

Partners:

  • VERENIGING SPORT EN GEMEENTEN (Netherlands)
  • FUNDACJA INSTITUTE FOR SPORT GOVERNANCE (Poland)
  • STICHTING MULIER INSTITUUT - MULIER INSTITUUT (Netherlands)
  • EUROPEAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL SPORTS ORGANISATION - ENGSO (Sweden);
  • UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO/EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA (Spain);
  • HOGSKOLEN I MOLDE - HI Molde (Norway)

Total budget: 400.000€ (UPV/EHU:53.145,00 €)
Total funded: 400.000€ (UPV/EHU:53.145,00 €)

Start date: 01/02/2024
End date: 31/01/2026

Total duration: 24 Months

Brief description: Background to the project are the well-documented deficits of existing sport policies with regards to sports for all and sports participation.

The mainstream of existing sports policies within the European model of organised sport is rather successful in activating the affluent, healthy, young, non-migrant, male members of society, but they struggle in catering to the less affluent, physically impaired, older, migrant or non-male members of society to varying degrees. Key to an improvement of this situation is a better understanding of the creation and implementation of policies that aim at usually less organised segments of society.

The proposed project’s goal is to identify and analyse successful local sport policies for enhanced sport participation. This means projects and programs at the local level particularly oriented towards enhanced integration and participation of usually less organized, marginalized segments of society into the practice and the governance of sports. The project is intended to improve participation in sports for those segments of society that are usually underrepresented or excluded. By identifying and understanding good practice for the integration, inclusion and participation of all segments of society, in particular the marginalised, the aim is to better understand and popularize procedural, institutional dimensions of such policies and programs.

The project assumes that the local level, cities and municipalities are the focal point for improvement as they are practically involved with sports for all. It is here that new and innovative approaches can be developed and it is the very locus of participation in a tangible sense.

By combining good practice, institutional change and the analysis of local networks, the project seeks to highlight new and successful ways in process and content of local sport politics and governance.