SCOUT - Sport Clubs Opening Up To all girls’ participation

The objective of SCOUT is to design, test and evaluate a new youth sport programme that facilitates access and opportunities to engage in organised sport activities for girls at risk of social exclusion or in situations of vulnerability. The project activities entail careful planning and designing in collaboration with sport clubs and federations, municipal social services and sports, NGOs and community organisations, amongst other, and consider in the implementation the various clubs’ stakeholder groups (chiefly, girls’ peers and coaches) and their social ecologies (girls’ parents, school teachers and educators, social caregivers, etc.) to be instrumental in making the programme deliver positive youth development and other development assets fostering the inclusion of the girls in situations of vulnerability. The pilot recruitment and intervention programme will be implemented in 3 sport clubs from France (Istres Provence Volley), Italy (SP Anderlini) and Spain (AE Carles Vallbona), engaging more than 160 girls in sport practice and exchanges with peers, 78 coaches in training and exchanges with peers, 200 parents, amongst others. The project counts on the support of a University (UVIC-UCC) (Spain) and an NGO (Athletes Inspire Children) (Germany), experienced in capacity building processes in the organised sport sector and with profound knowledge of social inclusion strategies through sport. Among other duties, they will design and support the facilitation of the comprehensive training programme for the various stakeholders and peer to peer exchanges among the sport clubs. Another key output of the project will deliver policy recommendations and evaluate the impact of the programme and the ability of sport clubs, via a self-assessment digital tool, to promote social inclusion