Combating with Hazards Through Olympic Values

Background There are health & safety hazards involved in Youth Sports. Youth Sports paticipation is very big and dropout rates too. Youth operations of team sports are organised by clubs and priority is sportive success at all ages. Everything else is secondary, even various internal & external hazards which by enforcing droputs, increase inactive & unhealthy lifestyles. Specificly focusing on basketball, we aimed at finding a way to fight abundant health & safety hazards with values-education methodology. Objectives Our overall aim was to educate young athletes to protect themselves from health and safety hazards by providing open space for them to internalize Olympic Values & Sport Ethics through Basketball. With the help of values-education, our specific objective was a contribution to a healthy future of young generations by informing them about dangerous products, showing them harmful external & internal actors and their consequences which directly effect their health and safety. Implementation In order to protect young athletes from numerous health & safety hazards with a special focus on Values-Education through Basketball; we organized 3 Transnational Project Meetings in Czechia, Turkey & Lithuania and a range of complementary Local Activities in 4 partner countries with sport coaches, young athletes, varying stakeholders from public – civil – sport sectors. Due to the limitations of the pandemic, our project term was revised as 01.01.2020 – 31.12.2021. Achievements As the results of the project, 3 outputs -Values-Based Training Module for Sport Coaches, Project Website and Project Movie- and various outcomes were produced:i. 20 Sport Coaches clearly increased their methodological capacities ii. 191 young athletes benefited from values-based sport activities and 42 of them participated in international mobility with peers from 4 countries for the first time.iii. Exchange of know-how for protection of young athletes was achieved among the partners.