Nobody Offside Staff Exchange
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Jul 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Football and sports in general are increasingly used and recognized as a tool for community development and social inclusion. These football for development programmes are providing people from different backgrounds with valuable tools to actively make a difference in their own lives. By addressing the most pressing issues in each community, the programmes are contributing to positive social change on an European scale. Football has the power to help people to achieve more: address health issues, tackle racism, go back to school, find employment or become role models. Football can enhance individual development, self-confidence and conveys values of team spirit, fair play and responsibility. It teaches youth how to deal with victory and defeat, solve problems and accept rules. Especially young adults with a disability often do not have the same chances in life and sport as their peers without a disability. Sport offers an unique possibility to encourage self-confidence and personal development of youngsters with a disability and enables them to take over responsibility and to act as coaches and role models on and off the pitch as well.During the exchange, the content of the coaching education programme is conveyed in theoretical and practical sessions. The programme focuses on teamwork, interactive working and immediate practical implementation. The exchange provides the opportunity to present and discuss best practices from the four participating countries. Through the development of the Nobody Offside Practitioners Guide, all the best practices and outcomes of the exchange will be captured in an easy and freely to use practitioners guide that will make an impact on sport based social inclusion programmes and activities for long after the exchange programme. The professional and volunatry staff are better capable to independently plan and realise parts or whole disability football activities within their local delivery. The Nobody Offside Staff Exchange aims to bring 32 staff members of 7 different organisations together to exchange best practice methods and develop new training methods for their local specific target groups. Through the values of inclusion, which will be a big topic throughout the exchange, fundamental values of our society are being discussed and taught.We want to provide an environment of equal opportunities, where empowered participants overcome social and physical barriers.The project further aims to improve quality of the partners local community programmes through:1. Inspiring the professionals and voluntary staff with new training methods, games and activities and strenghten their commitment in disability football.2. Capturing and communicating best practice methodologies.3. Creating an international network of youth workers that lays a foundation for future youth exchanges to create extra opportunities for local participants on an international level. 4. Development of meaningful, mutually beneficial partnerships between the participating organisations.
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