ORIENT - International Orienteering Event in Graz, Austria
Over the past 30 months, the ORIENT project has pursued its goal of promoting the social inclusion of young people while stimulating the discovery of their city and the development of new skills. A collection of good practices on the use of orienteering for social inclusion was put together in the Anthology. A Curriculum was also created to provide sports trainers and CSOs workers with tools and methodologies to organize orienteering activities for young people. Orienteering kits were then produced and distributed to young people, together with Gears & Ideas, a toolbox with the essential orienteering rules and regulations. Through participatory mapping workshops, young people mapped meaningful places of social and cultural value to create new orienteering routes. This resulted in the compendium of orienteering “routes to inclusion”. Last but not least, the Manifesto - a policy-oriented document - was created and published to show the potential of orienteering in fostering participation and social inclusion.
On June 14, 2023,
on the occasion of the last transnational meeting for the ORIENT project, the
international orienteering event, organized by the project partners from
Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Erzgovina, Austria and Cyprus took place in
Graz, Austria. During the morning, several students and their teachers were
involved in an orienteering competition at the ASVÖ Styria sports center. After
the competition, the major outputs of the project were presented to the
teachers.
In the afternoon, a meeting with orienteering experts was held, introduced
by the sports director of the Orienteering Association Graz. During the event,
several experienced orienteering sportsmen and sportswomen shared their best
practices, mainly related to how to engage young people/students in this sport.
Afterwards, the most important "orienteering for inclusion"
achievements of the various ORIENT partner countries were presented by the
project partners.
