Urban Sports Games For Transversal & Transferable Skills

The U.SKILLS is a project that offered a set of 10 urban sports to create an opportunity to developed some of Transversal & Transferable Skills (TT-Skills) across economic sectors under the values of gender equality and social integration for youngsters and, in particularly for those who live in urban socio-economic disadvantaged territories in the partner’s local communities. For this project it was created the “figure” of Urban TT-Skills Sports Games Agent which included an: a) Urban Manager Sports Agent and an b) Urban Facilitator Sports Agent.Through these two types of Urban TT-Skills Sports Games Agents, a set of Transversal & Transferable Skills (Specific Soft Skills) were trained by young people of both genders, namely, for the TT-Skills Sports Agent manager: 1-Planning and Organizing Tools; 2-Organization/Community Awareness; 3-Leadership.This project was designed to promote the creation and development of transnational networks in the field of sport and foster synergy with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies. Plus, it was designed as well to: enable young people, through sport, and in particular, through "Urban" sport activities, to develop a limited set of Skills considered transversal and transferable between sectors, so that they can later on capitalize the skills acquired through sport for their lives in professional or leisure terms among friends, families and communities; to create points or urban spots of diffusion in disadvantaged urban spaces so that it offers to the local young community an opportunity to cover their employability needs under the values of gender equality and social inclusion and build empowered and committed communities to empower young people for the professional challenges that in today's societies are constantly changing and where the paradigm of formal education is not enough to cover such challenges.