While young people proportionally are very active as participants in grassroots sport activities in almost all countries in the world, active involvement of young people in the organisational aspects of civil society initiated sports is often limited. This is also the case in the organisation of the grassroots sports campaign called MOVE Brasil, implemented by project partner SESC. At the same time, youth engagement and volunteering in the European-wide NowWeMOVE campaign has grown steadily and this has gained some first and very valuable experiences worth sharing. This project aims to do just that.The overall objective is to engage more young people from Europe and Latin America actively in grassroots sport campaigns and initiatives promoting healthier lifestylesSpecific Project Objectives and activities1) Build capacity for youth engagement in Latin American youth and sport oriented organisations with a starting point in Project Partner SESC (Brazil) • Exchange and transfer of European experience from the NowWeMOVE Campaign and European Partners during project lifetime• Deliver high profile Latin American dissemination/exploitation event for 30 stakeholders/youth workers from the whole continent and subsequent follow-up.2) Innovate an international Training and Volunteering Platform for blended non-formal learning opportunities for youth (18-30) in the field of grassroots sports • Training and volunteering Platform using Expert input, IT communications, cross-border peer learning, volunteer support and event development “buddy system” delivered 3) Continuously enhance young people’s competencies to deliver community-based grassroots sport initiatives and offers and provide them a unique opportunity of two major ongoing campaigns in Europe and to test their skills in real life • Train 2x30 young people (18-30) during the project using the Platform and setting up their own community engagement events and grassroots sports activities• Exploit the Training and Volunteering Platform to continue peer learning, idea development, and campaign engagement during and beyond project lifetime4) Disseminate and exploit the project results to a targeted European and Latin American audience• Dissemination event in Barcelona, involving 30 key stakeholders and youth workers from youth and sport organisations from 20 different European countries • Full exploitation strategy via campaign partners in second half of project• Adjust the European NowWeMOVE campaign and the MOVE Brasil campaigns to be fully accessible platforms for young people to engage onThe project thus combines • longer term sustainable action – capacity building both in Latin America and Europe• innovative learning opportunities – Training and Volunteering Platform• short term training of young people and very concrete opportunity to apply what they learned• systematic dissemination and exploitation

<< Objectives >>Support the social inclusion of displaced Ukrainian youth within local communities through sport and increase the receptiveness of the grassroots sport sector to welcome migrant and refugee youth in the Baltic-Polish region. The project will build the capacity of social inclusion through sport programmes in the region to offer higher quality opportunities for more disadvantaged youth. Youth will benefit their social, mental and physical well-being and build bridges within the local community.<< Implementation >>The project will expand existing grassroots sport programmes with focus on reaching out to Ukrainian communities, train sport staff and provide them with the educational materials. As part of international peer-learning, sport staff will engage in study visits in each country and compile all of the learnings of the sport sector together into a practical guide for the sport sector. Youth will have a chance to design and implement their own activities as part of a 500+ participant sport festival.<< Results >>The project is expected to increase the number of displaced Ukrainian youth in the Baltic-Polish region who are engaged in regular physical activity and organised sports. As a result of the project, the involved organisations and the wider sport sector will be able to offer higher-quality and more sport activities with a more competent sport workforce who would have increased their expertise in working with disadvantaged youth and especially Ukrainians.

Context/backgroundSchool-related physical activity and healthy lifestyle has numerous benefits on overall development of children. Schools which try to address the problems of physical inactivity and reshape their environment by improving their infrastructure, contents and organization of work bring multiple benefits to their students and improve their future prospects. Healthy lifestyle and physically activity in school settings can be promoted through developments in four domains:- Physical education (seen as an educational course and part of the curriculum)- Physical activity (other curricular and extracurricular physical activity, represented by educational approaches with a focus on physical activity)- School Sport (organized non-competitive and competitive sport activities and events in or between schools)- Healthy lifestyle (any initiatives linked to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle)ObjectivesThe proposed project is aimed at building up capacity of school-related stakeholders - like teachers, educators, school headmasters – when it comes to the improvement of school-based physical activity for children and adolescents, as well as their healthy lifestyles in general:• To map the current situation with regard to best practice related to physically active and healthy schools in Europe• To develop a modular framework to promote physically active and healthy schools in Europe• To develop a teacher training toolkit to promote physically active and healthy schools• To make the modules and the toolkit available in a free open educational platform• To raise public awareness about the importance of physically active and healthy schools• To facilitate the development of national networks of physically active and healthy schools and an international network of national coordinators• To facilitate international links between physically active and healthy schools via platforms like eTwinningSummarising our vision, by creating and developing a European network, we hope to inspire schools and their stakeholders around the continent to support children and adolescents to be more physically active and to lead a healthy lifestyle.Number and profile of participants1. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (UL; project coordinator) 2. Hungarian School Sport Federation (HSSF), Hungary3. Deporte para la Educacion y la Salud (DES), Spain4. International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA), Denmark5. European Physical Education Association (EUPEA), Switzerland Furthermore, 12 associated partners are going to contribute to the project (6 ISCA and 6 EUPEA members). The project partners will be represented in total by 19 experts in the project-relevant areas of expertise and 24 delegates of the 12 associate partners will participate in the LTT activity and implement national multiplier events. Description of activitiesThrough this partnership, the consortium proposes to develop a central platform for a modular toolkit in nine IOs made available as a free open educational resource. The project participants will be trained in a short staff training event to implement the modular resource in 15 national MEs in 15 countries. A final IO will consist in the development of a long term public awareness campaign and sustainability plan, to implement the project results beyond the project partners and beyond the project lifetime. Four TPMs will support the project management and implementation. MethodologyThe project coordinator will use the methodology adopted by the UL, therefore agile project management will be used throughout the project. The UL project leader will be responsible for overseeing the execution of the project plan, through its various activities and the management of their execution. A short description of the results- Four modules on (1) physical education, (2) school sport, (3) physical activity and (4) healthy lifestyle in school settings consisting of a report on best practice and a framework and guidelines for implementation- A modular implementation toolkit to implement the four modules- A public awareness campaign and sustainability plan to implement the project outcomes in further countries and schools beyond the project lifetimeImpact envisagedDesired impacts at local, regional and national levels:- Raising awareness amongst teachers and other school staff about the importance of physically active and healthy schools;- Raising awareness with the general public through media on the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyle in school settings;- Students are more engaged throughout the school day in a more physically active and healthy school setting.Longer term benefitsThe project outcomes and results will be available on the project website as a free download. As project coordinator and leader, the UL will ensure that each partner effectively executes the dissemination plan and keeps the information visible on and via their respective websites.

Key topics: Integration, sport, physical activity, refugees, challenges, barriers, solutions, principles, success factors, recommendations, tips and tricks, partnership, impactThe last year has seen a huge and unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into Europe. During 2015 more than a million asylum seekers and immigrants arrived in Europe. In the face of this crisis, governments have to date largely not succeeded in finding pan-European solutions, relying instead on national approaches. Refugees – and the unfortunate situations that made them refugees – are a reality. This is a reality we all need to deal with and act upon. Whether it is by undertaking actions that will help to minimise the number of refugees in the future, or by supporting civilians in areas of conflict, or assisting refugees in the countries they flee to – it is a human reality. A reality which demands a human solution. Depending on whether we represent political institutions or civil society, our roles and interventions will be different. But the task is the same - to give everyone the Human Right to MOVE.Many civil society organisations – not least sport organisations – have shown their human capacity by assisting refugees in finding just a little dignity, a little friendliness and a little happiness in their lives. To do this they acted quickly and have done it the way in which civil society is strongest. Simply by offering the refugees the same grassroots activities as they offer other citizens. This happens in thousands of places across Europe. It comes from the bottom up in local areas and is driven by volunteers. It is a fantastic symbol of the Human Right to MOVE being something we give to each other.The project Inclusion of Refugees through Sport had as its overall aim to strengthen the societal inclusion of refugees via the informal and non-formal learning opportunities sport and physical activities provide. With project we took a different approach by aiming to strengthen European cooperation in the field of adult learning to enhance inclusion of refugees at the level of civil society organisations. With IRTS project and its activities we have proof that interaction and informal learning can lead to an increase in Social, Intellectual, Financial, Physical, Emotional and Individual Capital for participants and learners. We have developed tools•good practice collection https://irts.isca.org/collection/ •a Grundtvig video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10Fbmwcy4E •a toolkit https://irts.isca.org/implementation-guide/•an online learning resource https://learn.isca.org/courses/irts/ for grassroots sport and non-sport organisation to use when engaging refugees in sport and physical activities. Organisations invite and help refugees to be physical active, acquire positive life skills, attitudes and values. They improve their language and communication skills, get a better understanding of cultural norms and codes of conduct and form a mutual respect for common rules and underlying values. Moreover sports organisations and their leaders enhanced leadership and organisational skills for important contributions to the learning, self-esteem and, ultimately, employability of the individual refugees involved.Partners and other participating organisations established and joined the web networking platform, and committed to the sustainability of the project with their active engagement and recruitment of new organisations to expand the network. All new organisations receive consulting and advice to exploit the project outputs even further, via MOVE Beyond project and new Network platform. ISCA, as the lead organisation, is committed to maintaining and updating the platform with new materials at least quarterly, as well as inviting further interested organisations as the network expands. ISCA is very experienced in maintaining such networks and resources and is currently doing so for five thematic networks. ISCA is also able to exploit other international projects and meetings, as well as its annual congress, to enable the network organisations to be in touch also physically with regular intervals ISCA will continue to promote and monitor the use of these tools as part of our ongoing dissemination efforts. The migration and inclusion agenda remains an important issue that requires effective cooperation between European countries, so we believe that we set an example that others can take up, follow and develop further in the future.Full report is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/09neuohedafddmq/IRTS_Final%20Narrative_Report_October%202019.pdf?dl=0

European Youth Health Champions (EYHC) was a strategic partnership between 8 organisations from 6 European countries. Project objectives:1.To convert knowledge & experience from cross-sector stakeholders in youth peer education in health enhancing physical activity into learning resources that can be used transnationally by organisations in youth work, health, & community sport.2.To create an online learning portal of project resources, open & accessible for all.3.To ensure that young people with fewer opportunities are integral to the design & testing of the resources.4.To drive the impact of European Youth Health Champions by advocating & disseminating to policy stakeholders in each participating country & Europe-wide at local, regional, national, & European levels.Participating organisations:StreetGames UK (Lead coordinating partner) The leading UK charity committed to ensuring disadvantaged young people & communities lead healthy active lifestyles. With an Alliance of over 1,000 locally trusted organisations, StreetGames engages over 30,000 young people aged 12-25 each year.Royal Society for Public Health UK (RSPH) The organisation is dedicated to the promotion & protection of collective human health & wellbeing. They advise on policy development, provide education, encourage research, disseminate information & accredit health improvement programmes. With over 6000 members, they represent a broad range of organisations across the UK. Birmingham City Council UK (BCC). BCC’s Health & Wellbeing Service provides a range of programmes promoting & improving the health & wellbeing of the residents of Birmingham. BCC engage with residents through participation, education & volunteering programmes, & collaborate with a range of organisations. International Sport & Culture Association, Denmark (ISCA) With over 230 member organisations, ISCA is a democratic, not-for-profit umbrella organisation who’s tag line is MOVING PEOPLE. The organisation develops capacity building projects & promotes cross-sector collaboration to increase citizens’ involvement in community sport & physical activity. Vlaams Instituut voor Sportbeheer en Recreatiebeleid vzw, BELGIUM (ISB) The Flemish institute for sport administration & recreation management is a non-profit institution specialised in local & regional recreation management. ISB is a member organisation & a knowledge centre. ISB promote sport & exercise on a local level through a ‘sport for all’ policy. BG BE ACTIVE, BULGARIA (BGBA) The purpose of the organisation is to increase the popularity of sport & physical activity. BGBA work on a local, national & international level & use sport as a tool to decrease physical inactivity across all ages. A key priority of the organisation is to use sport & physical activity as a tool to build a socially responsible society, particularly working with young people. Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, MALTA (AZ) As the National Youth Agency of Malta, the mission is to promote the interests of young people & help them to achieve their potential. AZ work collaboratively to address the needs & aspirations of young people. They do this by providing community spaces, advocating young peoples’ voices, developing engagement & empowerment programmes & conducting research. Mine Vaganti NGO, ITALY (MVNGO) The mission of the organisation is to promote intercultural dialogue, social inclusion through sport & environmental protection using non-formal education. MVNGO is an educational training provider at local & European levels & has a consultant role for public & private bodies in order to promote & develop international projects. Project activities: 3 intellectual outputs (IOs) (evidence review, online training course & online portal); 5 transnational project meetings (TPMs); 6 multiplier events (MEs); 1 learning/teaching/training Blended Mobility (BM) event.The project has achieved the following impact:EYHC has created high quality research & leaning resources that are relevant & fit for purpose. 246 young people have supported the research & design & testing of the training which will enable others to develop the skills required to be an effective peer educator within their community. 55 participants have become peer educators themselves.13 Young people have travelled abroad, as a direct result of EYHC, since the BM event.263 people attended multiplier events in 6 countries.Over 550,000 people have been reached through online media, events, & dissemination of open-access resources.Longer Term Benefits: The resources are available online via open access. SG will maintain this platform for at least 10 years. Continued promotion, & inclusion in ongoing projects will ensure that the resources continue to be used. As a result of EYHC & the research, there is a commitment from all partners to continue to advocate & disseminate ‘Peer Education’ at a European level, to bring about sector recognition.