Target area:	Linking Higher Education & Society
Sub-target area:	Human Resource Development
Target countries:	Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Spain
Duration:	01/05/2022 – 30/04/2024
Partners:	Regional Volunteer Center, Poland Association Mundus Bulgaria Biderbost Boscan & Rochin SL, Spain Pannonian, Croatia SPIN SPORT Innovation, Germany WUS Austria, Austria Association Sport for All Vojvodina, Serbia
Budget line:	Erasmus +, Sport Cooperation Partnerships

Project description

Sport organizations and clubs all over Europe play a crucial role in encouraging and engaging people to get physically active. The sport sector, especially on the local level, relies heavily on volunteers in sports to engage more people in doing sports. The involvement of volunteers in sports is a key factor to the success and long-term sustainability of sport clubs, organizations, and events.

The current project refers to the contribution of all participating organizations to promoting voluntary activities in sports and to developing awareness towards such involvement.

The project objectives are:

• To promote volunteering in sports through extra-curricular activities and courses in view of increasing innovation capacity of sport clubs’ delegates and other related target groups to involve volunteers.

• To embed innovative approaches towards volunteering in sports, through mainstreaming the development of awareness towards volunteering actions in sports.

• To encourage sport clubs to stimulate volunteering in sports in view of developing such mindsets among their members.

• To stimulate sport clubs on how to better engage volunteers in their activities.

• To enhance the volunteering spirit among young people in sport practice in general.

• To demonstrate the benefits of multidisciplinary educational approaches by the development of a “Training module and training guide on enhancing volunteering in sports”.

• To encourage the development of a multi-level cross-sectorial system that fosters learning through direct involvement in volunteering in sports activities.