In the last two decades, there has been an increasing concern in including sport in the European Union’s agenda for development as sports can be an essential tool to increase employability, create new jobs, and promote labour market integration In the last two decades, there has been an increasing concern in including sport in the European Union’s agenda for development as sports can be an essential tool to increase employability, create new jobs, and promote labour market integration and work capacities.
In 2011 the EU emphasised the importance of sports as a tool for social inclusion, regional development and employability. Since then there have been three Work Plans for Sport, being priorities of the final work plan: 1) Integrity of sport, 2) Economic dimension of sport, 3) Sport and society.
The project “Skills by Sport 4 the Mediterranean” (SbS4Med), aligns with the EU priorities mentioned above.
The SBS4Med intends to promote social transformation in the Mediterranean region using Sports as a “tool” for addressing the social and economic problem of low employment, massive migration processes and insecurity.
The education and skills development in and through sport allows for better integration of youth in the labour market and achieve its needs.
The project aims to deliver knowledge and information about how the skills and competencies of coaches and athletes can contribute to employability.
The projects’ final objective is to promote a synergetic relation between sports and labour market.
Mission
Sport as a tool for empowerment to tackle the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin and promote social inclusion is the core mission of the SbS4Med project
Aims
Social transformation
Social Transformation by promoting work capacities, employment and entrepreneurship.
Identify Skills
Identify a set of skills (including soft skills), transferred by coaches and sports instructors to different target groups, that are useful for integration in the labour market and enhance employability.
Awareness
Create training courses for coaches for the raise of awareness on the skills and competencies developed through sport, and support them in developing eventual missing skills requested by the labour market.
Impact
Awareness
Raise awareness about the relevance of sports skills for the labour market
Coach qualification
Promote training and qualification of coaches to transfer their knowledge, soft and life skills, enhancing the employability/ entrepreneurship of the athletes.
Contact Group
Have a long-term oriented contact group with the South Coast of the Mediterranean on a crucial topic: employment and economic development through sport.
Spread of practices
Implementation of these practices across all Mediterranean basin (including South and North Border)
Project Timeline
2019
Sport as a tool for empowerment to tackle the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin and promote social inclusion is the core mission of the SbS4Med project
2020
Sport as a tool for empowerment to tackle the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin and promote social inclusion is the core mission of the SbS4Med project
2021
Sport as a tool for empowerment to tackle the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin and promote social inclusion is the core mission of the SbS4Med project
WorkPackages
WORK PACKAGE 1: Research Gap Analysis (MONTHS 1-12) (INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 1)
WORK PACKAGE 2: Training Course Elaboration (MONTHS 1-10) (INTELLECTUAL OUPUT 2)
WORK PACKAGE 3 – Training Sessions (MONTHS 10 – 24) (INTELLECTUAL OUPUT 3)
WORK PACKAGE 4 – Training Piloting (MONTHS 1-36) (INTELLECTUAL OUPUT 4)
WORK PACKAGE B – Communication (MONTHS 1-36)
WORK PACKAGE C – Quality control and impact evaluation (MONTHS 1-36)
WORK PACKAGE D – Reporting to the donor (MONTHS 33-36)
