Go4SportVolunteering

The main topic addressed by the project “Go4Sport Volunteering!” will be to promote education through sport activities with special focus on skills development. More specifically how volunteering engagements in sport can lead to development of life skills for volunteers, how we as sport clubs can attract more volunteers into our work, how we manage them and recognize the skills they gained. The main theme of the project address one of the key topics of European policy in the field of sport – Sport and Society, in particular volunteering and education through sport. Sport clubs, especially small clubs on local level such as all partners involved in the project, depend and rely on the involvement of volunteers in their work. Engaging volunteers in different positions whether as helping to run a club, as couches, members of secretariats or volunteers in organization of sport events on formal or informal bases is crucial to sustain the clubs in life. Through the project we will aim to achieve the following specific objectives: - to analyses young people’s perception on volunteering in sport in our countries through a research targeting at least 600 young people in our countries; - to understand which competences, skills and values can volunteers developed through their engagement in different sport club activities or disciplines, weather individual or team-based through cooperation, interviews and discussion with different local sport clubs in our countries; - to exchange and combine knowledge and best practices in the field, with the aim to produce a tool kit for small scale sports clubs on how to attract and recruit volunteers by focusing on skill development; - to promote cooperation between different stakeholders and local sport clubs, promote volunteering in sport activities with focus on skills development, and recognition of skills gained through volunteering in sport.