Essai Solidaire
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
"Essai Solidaire" aims to allow public debate and promote initiatives around sports and international solidarity on two levels: youth actors working in the field of sport, education and social inclusion , local and international solidarity as well as youth in France and Morocco.The project was developed and built by the organizations Cool'eurs and EDOM in order to develop the several potentials of sports "Here and there". The reflection was focused on two areas:* Sport volunteering and international solidarity: Voluntering activities around sports allow young people especially to those with fewer opportunities to ve invested and be commited locally and internationally in civic actions.* Sport, education, social inclusion and local development: Sport promotes recovery, skills and life skills for young people. Sport is also vector of mobilization and concrete actions on the territory. An educational project around the sport can afford to build a social integration.This project, supported by Cool'eurs du Monde in partnership with EDOM, will consist of two actions:> a seminar dedicated to Moroccan society actors and actors of the Aquitaine-Limousin Poitou-Charentes area in France (Bassens, near Bordeaux Artigues), 18 participants.- 3 days excluding travel: 16/17 / June 18, 2016 - practices exchanges on different themes: sport as insertion vector, sport and local citizenship, rugby and international solidarity; structures visits; a conference on transmission of educational values through sport, an inter-associative rugby tournament ...> an exchange of French and Moroccan young people (26 participants, eight days (HV), Mers el Kheir, Morocco) fed by the learning and results of the seminar on the theme of rugby and citizenship.- 8 days excluding travel trade: 19 to 26 August 2016 - Rugby tournament organized by the youth in the local community and awareness around sport and citizenship: visit neighborhood associations, sports and games around rugby challenge as rugby, preparing sub commissions, beach rugby; exchanges around themes like sports: Cooperation or competition around the values of sport, stereotypes and prejudices in sport ...Project objectives:> Educate youth players and youth using sport as a tool for social change here and there> Valuing sporting solidarity actions in France and MoroccoThe objectives of the seminar:> Share best practices and experiences of the participants of the seminar structures around this thematic> Share the work and provide a space for reflection and visibility of structures using sport as an educational tool for youth.The objectives of the exchange:> Strengthen civic capacity and participation of young people in sport-related activities, citizenship and solidarity.> Educate youth solidarity and civic sport> Increase awareness and understanding of another cultureWhether for the seminar and for the exchange of young people, the methodology will be based on non-formal education, exchange of practice and learning through experience.The expected impacts on the seminar participants will be mainly the strengthening of competence, valuing experience and the opportunity to expand their contact networks. An openness to the world and a cultural awareness and the awareness for these young people of the possibility of sport as a citizenship tool for participants are expected. Furthermore this may enable them to strengthen their motivation and commitment to participate in similar projects. Regarding our two association, "Essai solidaire" project will strengthen this collaboration but also develop the network of both structures.In the long term, the project will develop local initiatives in France and Morocco around the sport as international and local solidarity vector and thus enable a dynamic between these territories.Young met and accompanied in our structures will benefit from the implementation of this project since our organizations strengthened their accompanying skills, awareness and animation and mobility proposal. In addition, the learning acquired during the implementation of the youth exchange will allow associations to offer new exchange projects and so to offer more opportunity for young people in each territory.