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In general, the methodology to use sports as a tool for youth work, is become more important in youth work. Although it is very easy to see why sports are an important tool, it has not been mainstream and only recently coming to the fore as an strong and potent means. Especially in reaching underprivileged youngsters, sports are a very valuable tool to reach kids that are not reached in school or by classical youth work. To experiment with sports as a pedagogical tool, by twisting the rules to make a societal theme come to the fore, is to develop this methodology further. A potent example is the privilege run, where the people that are born in an advantaged condition get a head start vis-a-vis people that are born in a disadvantaged position. This is very powerful to make young people aware of certain structural positions that exist in society. The mobility that we envision, want to develop more of such games, sports and energizers. We bring together 30 young youth workers (under 30) from 4 partner organisations that are passionate about sports and challenge them to become better versions of themselves. In general, these youth workers are volunteering in youth organisation, but the bulk of them is not (yet) employed. We aim to have a balance in gender and a balance in privileged/underprivileged participants, yet all need to be eager to have a fun learning experience and grow as trainers and as persons. The objectives of the mobility are the following: The objectives of the project are the following: 1. Using sports as tool for social inclusion: Development of youth workers that conduct pedagogical games and sports that raise awareness of self and society 2. Using and promoting non-formal learning 3. Improving language skills 4. Intercultural learning and awareness 5. Giving youngsters with fewer opportunities a broader life vision (broader their horizon psychically and mentally) 6. Personal development: encourage self-growth and self-esteem 7. Societal development: encouraging active citizenship through sports 8. Create opportunities for future exchanges and mobility of young Europeans through Erasmus+. Framework of E+ 9. Boost trainer and leadership skills, as well as employability of participants During the mobility of youth workers, we will conduct a training of trainers in which the trainers develop pedagogical ‘games 4 change’ by adapting the rules of existing games, sports and/or energizers. Also, the participants will be introduced to the concept of Urban Learning Safari, which they can adapt in their own local settings. Moreover, they will learn how to disperse their activities by means of new communicated methods (VLOGS, social media, …) and are introduced to the vast opportunities that E+ has to offer them, from youth exchanges over Salto trainings to EVS experiences. The greatest impact of the mobility will be that the participants will start to make use of the methodology in their daily practices. The partners also want to create a valuable output and document the developed activities to disperse them in the own youth organisations. Given that all partner organisation have a network on various levels, they will disperse this documentation in their network. We are currently working on this documentation, but postpone the eventual output to a later date. For now, all the tools and methods have been shared online with the participants so they van go to work. In general, we hope that this mobility can add to the celebration of sports as a tool for youth work, and that it can become a catalyst for more European projects on the topic by the participating organisations and the youngsters that they reach. In these future projects, the participants can then again be advocates for the methodology.
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