Traditional Eurpean Sport Activities

The goal of our project was to increase the interest of min. 500 young people from the five communities where our organisations are activating to practice traditional games and sport activities by providing them with correct and precise information on the rules and equipment required in order to perform each game and sport activity, in this way contributing to the continuity of traditional sportive activities and preservation of cultural heritage from each country involved.Our operational objectives were:O1. Increasing the interest of young people aged 15- 22 from the five communities to practice traditional sport activities by creating an action plan and a methodology to implement it.O2. Raising the level of competences of the young people aged 15-22 from the five communities regarding the history, the rules and the equipment needed to play the traditional sport of their country.O3. Increasing the capability of the five organisations to promote traditional sport activities in their community.In order to reach our project’s goal and the three project objectives we have implemented the following activities:T1-The First Transnational Project Meeting (Paris - 06‐09.03.2019)A1-Realisation of the promotional video (10.03-26.06.2019)T2-The Second Transnational Project Meeting (Costineti, Romania - 27-30.06.2019)A2 Preparation of the booklet (01.07-14.09.2019)A3 The National Sport Days (15.09.2019-06.02.2020)A4-A7 - Meetings with decision makers (01.11.2019-06.03.2020)T3-The Third Transnational Project Meeting (Tallinn, Estonia, 06‐07.02.2020)A8-Website Development (09.02.2020-03.10.2020)T4-The Fourth Transnational Project Meeting (Krnov, Czech Republic, 03-06.10.2020)A9-Dissemination (07.10-10.12.2020)A10-Dissemination in Social Media (04.11-14.12.2020)A11-Final Evaluations and Follow-up activities (15-31.12.2020)Impact:The project contributed greatly to the capacity to implement international projects of all our partners. Even though 2020 was a difficult year due to the COVID pandemic, together with our partners we have managed to reach the goal and all the objectives of our project, within its lifetime and without increasing its costs. The challenges we overcome made us value the partnership and we are determined to continue our collaboration in follow-up activities and projects.A few indicators of our impact:-307 youth aged 15-22 participated in the National Sport Days-414 out of 635 respondents would like to try the traditional sports presented-414 out of 635 respondents are more aware now of how can practice traditional sports-409 out of 635 respondents are now more interested than before to practice European traditional sports-we have collaborated during the project with 14 organisations and 21 decision makers-all the results are available for free on the website of the project as well as on the E+ Project Results Platform.Good practice:In October 2019, the Erasmus+ Agency of France published a compendium of 27 good practice French sport projects. Our project was one of them.This project involved a high level of collaboration. We have collaborated during the project with 14 organisations and 21 decision makers.All the five formal partners of this application developed their institutional capacity to promote European traditional sport activitiesThe indicators that best prove that our project was a good practice project are put in evidence by the final evaluation form where out of 635 respondents 506 (79.7%) of the respondents consider our project to have been an excellent one. Another 84 respondents (13.3%) consider it very good. Additionally, we have managed to convince 352 respondents (55.4%) to take part in traditional sport activities and 252 (39.7%) consider the possibility of engaging.