Winning at what price
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 3 min read
Start date 01-02-2016–End date 30-11-2016
EU Grant–29.238,09 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type:
Youth mobility
Countries covered–10
Coordinator
One Terrene International
58 Eade Road
N4 1DH LONDON
Inner London
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +44 7760248263
Summary
Sports should be a part of every person’s life in some form or another, it forms part of a healthy lifestyle and helps people to develop many skills like cooperation, team playing, responsibility and a sense of belonging. Sadly, though sport is not always accessible to all people and even those involved in sports are so competitive that some even resort to substance abuse simply to stay on top.
This youth exchange will look at sports from three perspectives; making sports accessible to everyone, keeping active to maintain a healthy lifestyle and allowing people to find employment in the field of sports.
The youth exchange is made up of young people from various areas of each of the partner countries with more emphasis on young people who don’t have easy or free access to sport, and also including young people who have an interest in turning sports into a career. Young disadvantages people will also participate in this exchange to offer their insight on the subject to allow us to examine and develop new approaching to helping more young people to access sports and also for young people to follow careers in sports.
The main issues to be covered in this exchange are access to sport by young people and evaluating the quality and quantity, the support offered to young people from school levels and the continued obstacles they face as they grow up. The second issue to be explored is the use of illegal substances in sports, evaluating why people feel the need to resort to such action and how we can overcome these problems. We will also look at sports or physical activities from the viewpoint of healthy lifestyles. Finally we will be looking at ways that young people can find employment in the field of sports, either by discovering gaps in the market or by creating jobs in the communities that need them.
It is our hope to share good and bad practices between the partner countries and knowledge and experience and develop workable solutions to assist more young people to have equal access to sports, to allow them to incorporate at least one sporting activity into their daily lives and to be able to create jobs in the field of sports for young people.
This exchange allowed us to learn about the importance of fair-play, working together and also the importance of sport as a part of our daily lives, not only as part of a healthy lifestyle, but that sport allows us to gain important skills and competences that increase our employability. We also looked at the importance of winning compared to the enjoyment of sport and saw that sometimes the drive to win overpowers the ideology of sport, this activity allowed us to now think of our actions and their impact before we do them.
As a result of this project we feel that young people are now more eager to find opportunities to be involved in sport and to even go to their policy makers and stakeholders to ask for more facilities and open spaces so that we can easier access to opportunities.
Partners
Acli Provinciali Cagliari 🇮🇹 Italy
Viale Marconi, 4
Cagliari
Sardegna
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +3907043039
ACTIVE GENERATION CYPRUS 🇨🇾 Cyprus
Κύπρος (Kýpros)
🇨🇾 Cyprus
Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work
Association Of Environmetal Protection And Cultural Heritage 🇬🇷 Greece
28 SYNTAGMATOS PEZIKOU
53200 AMINTAIO
Δυτική Μακεδονία (Dytiki Makedonia)
🇬🇷 Greece
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +3069452314771
Biedriba Eurofortis 🇱🇻 Latvia
Anninmuizas bulvaris 38-37
LV-1067 Riga
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
GENCLIK SANAT ARASTIRMA VE EGITIM DERNEGI 🇹🇷 Türkiye
BAHCELIEVLER MAH/SEMT MEHMETCIK SK NO 1 1B01
34180 BAHCELIEVLER ISTANBUL
İstanbul
🇹🇷 Türkiye
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +902122436223
Informal group 4F 🇷🇴 Romania
Popa Sapca, bl. 2, ap. 6
210143 Targu-Jiu
Sud-Vest Oltenia
🇷🇴 Romania
Partner Type: Other
Phone: +40721283708
OCEAN ZNANJA U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ 🇭🇷 Croatia
7. RAVNICE 16
10000 ZAGREB
Grad Zagreb
🇭🇷 Croatia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +385976378478
The Starry Start of Talents Foundation 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
N: 18 bl.63, vh.J, ap.133, Street Bitola
1680 Sofia
София (Sofia)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Foundationa
Phone: +359887007090
Youth Forum EYE 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
str.Proleterski Brigadi nr.37/1-1/2
6330 Struga
Југозападен (Jugozapaden)
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +38946789360
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