SPORT - Involved Youth Coalition

                                                            International Trainings

Social Promoters for Inclusion through Sport
                               2019 - 2021, Iasi, Romania

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EuroDEMOS Association coordinated the international project Social Promoters of inclusiOnthRoughsporT between 01 September 2019 – 30 September 2021, project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
The project aimed to contribute to the development of information and practical capacity of the youth workers involved and organizations represented in the implementation of non-formal activities through sport for social inclusion and active involvement of young people with fewer opportunities.

Catalina Aghinitei – project coordinator
Director of EuroDEMOS International Programmes
More than 12 years of involvement as coordinator and trainer in international projects
Multiqualified as: project manager, trainer of trainer, quality auditor, event organizer, master of ceremonies

Informative-educative brochure - Social Promoters for inclusiOn thRough sporT

Ana Cristina Zacornea
EuroDEMOS Executive President
More than 18 years of involvement in the civil society sector
More than 50 project coordinated
Multiqualified as: evaluator of professional competences, Quality auditor, trainer of trainers, project manager,  expert evaluator of enterprises,
Evaluated as coordinator "success story"(according to the last evaluation of the DG EAC experts)

The project Social Promoters of inclusiOnthRoughsporT included 2 mobilities thah took place in Iasi, Romania.

The participants were selected by the project partners: Bulgarian Youth Association – Bulgaria, Meraki – Croatia, Hellenic Youth Participation – Greece, EuroDemos Youth Mobility NGO – Italy, Youth Alliance - Krusevo –North Macedonia, Idea for life – Poland, Intercultural Association For All – Portugal, Mladinski center BIT – Slovenia and Turizm Folklor Arastirma Kurumu TUFAK – Turkey.

The two mobilities were complementary in equipping the participating youth workers with new knowledge, ideas, skills, practical methods of social inclusion of young people through sports, going from understanding concepts to application, from receiving information to transforming them through creativity and innovation in intellectual products, from creation to receiving evaluative feedback, from design to practice, from working on national teams to working in multinational teams, from learning from others to own initiatives, from information to dissemination. Both mobilities were based on the transmission of information by trainers and facilitator, on the exchange of ideas and good practices between participants, on the involvement in practical activities of the participants, on the direct interaction with social actors and young people from the local community. The team of experts was Portuguese-Romanian (1 trainer from Portugal, 2 trainers and 1 facilitator from Romania).
The mobilities were implemented through non-formal methods such as: ice breakings, team building, presentations, brainstorming, brainwriting, workshops, inputs, inclusion method through dance sport, competitive and team work sport method with young people with autism, conflict management, and application of methods designed by the participants and others.  The first training included a presentation session of the Erasmus + program to promote its importance and to take the initiative of future projects. The Youthpass certificate and the 8 key competencies were also presented, each day participants having time on the agenda to reflect on their development. In the second mobility, the participants worked in multinational teams on concrete ideas for future Erasmus + projects. The promoters have delegated those youth workers who are directly involved in the current development activity of the youth sector, who are interested in developing youth social inclusion activity, who are open to share their knowledge, are interested in developing the partnership of the association. and in the future they will have the capacity to have their own initiatives within the organization for the development of the youth activity, especially for the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities through various methodologies such as sports activity.

The resulting informational resources consist of the creation of 15 non-formal methods that promote the benefit of sports activities in social inclusion. These methods created both within the two mobilities as well as through the cooperation with the partners represent sustainable resources for the participants and involved partners in the youth activities they implement.  Also, the brochure presenting non-formal methods is a useful resource for other trainers and youth workers at European level.

Mihaela Clincu -Trainer

Coordinator of the European Network to Promote Youth Involvement in the Decision Making Process – Involved Youth Coalition Qualified as: Trainer of Trainers, Socio-Educative Animator, Master of Ceremonies, Project Manager, Event Organizer

Trainer and project manager since 10 years ago in national and international projects on topics of European interest within the programmes as: Youth in Action, Erasmus+, European Youth Foundation, Europe for Citizens

Tony Costea -Trainer

Entrepreneur ICG Business GROUP, Executive MBA, Grant Writer, 8 years of projects, business and training
Everyone has a story. Mine sounds like this: I founded ICG Business because I want to change the business environment in Romania. Since 2013 we have started the entrepreneurial path in European funds and the NGO sector. The first results appear, attracted financing, satisfied customers and new companies.

Ricardo Coutinho - Trainer

Ricardo Coutinho: Has a degree in Management and a Masters in Tourism Management. Vice-President of the "Intercultural Association For All - IAFA", a non-profit organization that unleashes a vast number of projects and initiatives with the local community, based on social justice and equal opportunities. Has more than 20 years of experience as a business manager and more than 8 years of experience in associative work, including, trainer, project coordinator, youth coordinator, team leader and project management.