An €uropean project

Expected objectives of the project:

Integration of populations

• Enhance sports implication from people born into minorities, both as athletes and voluntary association members.
• Create a context ensuring equality of chance through sport.
• Give the opportunity to do sports at any social level and abolish quotas in non professional sport, according to European and national regulations.
• Make the public feel more concerned during sport events with the participation of minority populations.
• Enhance projects for integration such as “Force Sud”, which is more specifically intended for minorities.
• Start public awareness campaigns so as to promote the positive action of sport in terms of integration and intercultural dialogue and in collaboration with European and national authorities.
• Adopt a policy or recommendations in favour of the integration of minorities.

Social exclusion

• Set up an outline on the way to use sport as a means of integration and work for its implementation at the local level.
• Develop cooperation with organisations dealing with matters of social integration.
• Get involved in European networks specialized in the exchange of good practices, with the view to extending their use at a regional and also a national level.
• Create the label “sports club for integration”.

Solidarity between generations

• Develop sports facilities for aging people.
• Make it easier for the over fifties to practise sport, by developing the actions between generations.
• Use the old people’s knowledge to develop sport clubs and get involved in voluntary work as a leading member or a comity member.

Equality between women and men

• Increase the number of women playing sport and doing physical activities at every level, including the decision-making authorities of sport organizations.
• Set out the education, the training and the supporting of young girls in sport.
• Add some sport and educational material, keeping in mind the concept of equality man / woman, so as to enhance female practices and experiences between generations.

Racism

• Develop equity policies to fight against racism at all levels of sport.
• Work out tools to assess the various measures to fight discriminations.
• Make all the actors of the project more aware of the fight against homophobia.

Violence

• Encourage clubs and young people into adopting fair-play behaviours.
• Make new projects against violence with the view to drawing lessons from good practices.
• Create and supply new educational equipment as regards the fight against violence in sport.

Handicap

• Work for equal opportunities in sport for disabled people.
• Increase the number of young and disabled people making sport and make it easier for them to practise what they want to.
• Allow more clubs to give disabled people the possibility to practise their sports.
• Make it easier to use sport equipment.

School sport sections

• Develop initiatives from school sport sections, thus enhancing the pupils’ achievements during their school times.
• Emphasize the school courses of high level sportsmen and sportswomen and enhance the work done by State Education, “The Conseil Général”, the sport club and the Town Council to take care of them all along their studies.

Sport : teaching aid

• Make all partner schools discover the other countries cultures and promote tolerance by involving students and teachers in the project and in possible mobilities.
• Let the pupils know about the opening possibilities offered outside home and school.
• Make the people involved in the project able to cooperate between themselves, together with the families and the outside world, through exchanges of experiences, discussions and conferences.
• Increase the notion of European citizenship by discovering other cultures.
• Improve working methods by using communication and information technologies.
• Support development by using integration teaching methods in sport. The pupils have to be involved in work groups in different sports so that all their needs are come up to, especially as regards pupils in difficult situations.

• Work on pupils’ social and public awareness skills and on their ability to act towards a common goal thanks to team work.
• Use sport for the prevention of school dropout.
• Support of educational chances equality through working with pupils having learning problems, being disabled or socially excluded.
• Use sport culture as a subject for research or teaching work.

Expected main results:

Sport is the main social activity based on voluntary action in Europe. It plays a very important social part as it integrates people coming from different backgrounds, age categories, cultures and gender. It helps increase one’s self-esteem despite personal disabling situations.

Either at school or during one's spare time, practised as an amateur or a professional, sports creates a deep desire and reason to live and surpass oneself.

It can be a powerful social tool used in many fields such as integration of a group of people, the struggle against exclusion, xenophobia, racism and violence and the fight for gender equality.

By means of this project, we will try to define the priority lines of the local policies regarding sport and education in Dunkerque in France and Gdynia in Poland and aim to reduce

discriminations of all sorts (race, gender, disabilities...) within various backgrounds (very deprived to well-off areas)

Practical actions will be carried out to help solve these problems by giving everyone the opportunity to join the world of sport and culture.

By comparing the different ways of operating, we will experiment our partners' successfully completed projects and explore new paths for more social and educational integration and achievement.

Expected objectives and use :

It is of paramount importance that our two countries work together on a local, academic and regional level to exchange practices, tools, ideas and teaching and educational resources. Thus events and projects related to integration in sport will improve and develop.

The exchanges between the different teams will consist in local meetings as well as study visits and mutual observation periods of particular practices. These exchanges will allow partners to build up relationships between each other and enlarge their practices in the course of their teaching.

Such cooperation should make it possible for everyone to make sport, all the more since a logistic and financial support for the most underprivileged, the excluded or disabled people will be provided.

So the people who will benefit from the project will have the possibility to turn down problems they are confronted with. They will be able to live better by acting in sport either playing or participating into decision making.

The European dimension of this project cannot be denied and meets the 2020 objectives set up par the European Union : sport as a way of social integration, sport for older people, consequence on health, same number of boys and girls in sport…

Each partner will set priorities in relation to the main lines of our project, which are to be developed through several actions around sport or cultural meetings. The latter will allow to identify problems, think about solutions and locally improve the situations.

Thanks to the support from sport associations, some partnerships with schools and districts will be made ; ground experiences will thus be carried out and every partner commits itself to promoting collaboration with any kind of public (young and older people, disabled or excluded persons, pupils, women or men, from any ethnic minority…).

Mails and videoconferences will make it possible to follow the project advance. Assessments and modifications will be possible at any time.