Grants to support Emergency Sport Actions for Youth

Deadline: 17-Oct-23

The European Commission (EC) is offering grants to support emergency sport actions for youth under the Pilot Projects and Preparation Actions (PPPA) Programme.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are to:

• promote community integration of children and young people affected by humanitarian crisis such as war in the hosting communities;
• improve mental well-being and help overcoming trauma of such children and young people through sport;
• facilitate adaptation and create bonds with the hosting communities;
• inspire other sport clubs to set up support programmes by publishing and promoting experiences and good practices.

Scopes

• This pilot project will focus on encouraging community integration of children and youth. By improving their mental well-being by attending sport sessions, these individuals will eventually become ready to adjust to their new environment. Sport activities, with their power of bringing people together, will help interaction with the host community; facilitate integration into the education system and the labour market. To achieve the best results those activities should be organised at the local, grassroots level, mainly through grassroots sports clubs, involving only one country, as it is easier to respond to integration needs by implementing activities at the local level. The main beneficiaries will be children and young people affected by humanitarian crises and mass migration processes in the context of war.
• Activities, games and sports must be designed in order to meet specific social and psychosocial goals. They need to be age appropriate, culturally appropriate and be considered in respect to the gender roles in the community. Building on the existing physical capacities of participants, experienced coaches will help them feel comfortable by encouraging those performing skills that they already know. Therefore, cooperation between grassroots sports clubs and centres that could offer social, psychological or pedagogical support would be important and required. This project would also involve, mainly as facilitators, sport4federations. In addition, the purpose of this proposal is to inspire other sport clubs to set up support programmes by publishing and promoting experiences and good practices.

Funding Information

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 1 947 953
• Duration: Projects should normally range between 12 and 18 months.

Expected Outcome

The expected results include:

• Promote, in and through sport, the direct engagement of young people affected by the war with meaningful activities in at local level, in their host communities;
• Facilitate overcoming trauma, adapt to new environments and create bonds with the temporary hosting communities;
• Improve physical and mental well-being of those displaced by attending sport sessions;
• Collect experiences and good practices for dissemination and further inspiration to take up similar initiatives elsewhere in Europe.

Expected Impact

• Activities, games and sports must be designed in order to meet specific social and psychosocial goals. They need to be age appropriate, culturally appropriate and be considered in respect to the gender roles in the community.
• Building on the existing physical capacities of participants, experienced coaches will help them feel comfortable by encouraging those performing skills that they already know. Therefore, cooperation between grassroots sports clubs and centres that could offer social, psychological or pedagogical support would be important and required.
• This project would also involve, mainly as facilitators, sport4federations. In addition, the purpose of this proposal is to inspire other sport clubs to set up support programmes by publishing and promoting experiences and good practices.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible participants (eligible countries)
  • In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
    • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
    • be established (have a registered legal office) in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
    • be an organisation active in the field of sport (such as a sport federation or club), with legal personality (public or private body).
• Specific cases
  • Natural persons — Natural persons are not eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
  • International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
  • Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
  • EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) cannot be part of the consortium.

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