NETWORK FOR SPORTS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH SPORTS / NETSIS
▶Summary
Background NETSIS project was developed by transnational consortium involving 3 local sport clubs / BADMINGTON SPRT CLUB- MK, and non formal sport clubs managed from BDC and NAHPU/, 2 public bodies /ELIN PELIN and PARACIN municipality/, 2 schools /Professional gymnasium and SPORT SCHOOL/ and youth pioneer organisations for social inclusion /INNOVA – HU/ with the main aim to develop a 4 countries, interdisciplinary, intercultural NETWORK for social inclusion through sports and motivation of sport staff. Objectives The NETWORK FOCUS is on improving the partners’ capacity to interact and network for:•Better access to equal sport opportunities of disadvantaged youth & adults •Increase capacity of local sport clubs to promote sports and cooperate with NGOs and public bodies •Exchange of good practices for more sports in the formal /public schools / and informal education of vulnerable youth•Promoting sports as tool for social inclusion by enforcing network capacity of local sport clubs Implementation Project duration was 12 months. Implemented in N. Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary, creating collaborative, non-formal interdisciplinary, multycultural network for sports its core were 5 TMs which with virtual tools involved over 93 NGO, public and sport club practitioners in debates on local sport clubs issues, exchange of good practices for sport as social inclsuion tool, demonstration and practical match making activities based on non formal learning methods. Achievements Stronger transnational network composed of sport clubs, public schools and NGOs - deeper personal & proffesional connections with potential to generate new sport initiatives and promote sports capacity to build transversal skills and support social inclusionStronger capacity of sport clubs from NM, BG and Serbia to cooperate with NGOs and public bodies fieldworking with disadvantaged groups by exchanging tools & good practices for sports 76 sport practitioners professionalization&inspiratio