“Education Though Sport” is a training course that will deal with the importance of sport as an educational tool for promoting social inclusion. Deadline to apply: 10 September 2014

Mine Vaganti NGO (MVNGO) is the applicant organisation and will be holding the training course (TC) in Morocco from 10-17 October  2014.

The overall aim of the TC is to transfer innovative methodologies of non-formal education from European to Southern Mediterranean countries creating an important educational path between the regions South and North of the Mediterranean sea. Morocco seemed to all the partners the best place in which to implement the project since it represents a perfect melting pot of EU and arabic cultures.

According to the analysis made by the partners, in the Southern Mediterranean countries there is a huge educational lack and sport is not considered a method of non-formal education. With regards to this gap in education, carrying out this project allows for the sharing of new tools and for strengthening our cooperation.

Target group of training course: social workers, youth workers, youth leaders who have experience in sport activity or who like to use sport as an educational method. People from the following countires are invited to apply to participate: Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, UK, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine, plus Italy (total of 28 participants).

Learning objectives of the training course are:

• To raise knowledge and gain new experiences on sport and outdoor activities as tools of non formal learning
• To clarify the challenges of sport as a tool for education
• To create a network of professionals (youth leaders, social workers and trainers) who work with people with fewer opportunities using those new methodologies

The working method proposed by the trainers will start from a wider point of view, macro areas such as values, education and intercultural dialogue through sport, to the specific activities such as tools and methods to be held during the daily working life in every NGOs or youth centres when you can make the difference for building a civic society (bottom-up process).

The trainers will lead sessions based on spreading new methods about sport as a tool for inclusion of people with fewer opportunities: young with disabilities, migrants, persons discriminated by gender and people from rural areas.

The trainers will establish a theoretical framework and common reference points for learning and communication in this course and the course methodology foresees direct involvement of the organisations which already work on the topic and that will be present at the TC.

Two international accredited trainers with huge experience in the youth field and non-formal education through sport, Roberto Solinas from MVNGO and Antonio Saccone from Spolint will be the trainers/experts in our project.

For further information and questons, please contact Roberto Solinas by email at president@minevaganti.org or by phone at +39 079 6010 000