Training Course: Sports for Peacebuilding and Inclusion of minorities

Location: Pamplona (Navarra), Spain

Dates: 17-22 September 2017

Number of participants: 24

Participating countries:  Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme countries

Organizer: Spanish National Agency

Apply here: Application form

Deadline to apply: 23th July 2017

Inquiries about this training course: Ana Isabel Rodríguez, E-mail: tca@injuve.es, E-Mail: rodriguezcai@injuve.es

Costs: This project is financed by the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme.

Being selected for this course, all costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered by the NAs involved in this project.

Sports for Peacebuilding and Inclusion of minorities

The world is facing challenges connected with violence, discrimination and xenophobia. Sports as international language can be the link for Peacebuilding and intercultural education. Inclusion of different backgrounds’ people can be achieved using sports.

General Description

Sports for Peacebuilding and Inclusion of minorities is a training about diversity, about inclusion and about intercultural learning. Using sports as a tool and method we can achieve a more inclusive society and more peaceful environment for the future generations.

We are facing many challenges in the world: wars, migration, terror attacks and violence everywhere; but when it comes to sport, we see that people comes together and support teams of players or individual sports idols who show that through personal training and motivation, big goals can be achieved.

This training will be about motivation, about personal development, about conflict management, about empowerment of youth and all about sports.

The methodology used will be (among others)

• Workshops about tools for inclusion through sports
• Learning from each others’ experience and achievements
• Sharing good practises from the local-national work that each organization develops
• Experts inputs about conflics management and peacebuilding
• Case studies about the use of sports a an educational tool