MultiSport Experience

Multisport culture for youth empowerment

JANUARY 2020 // DECEMBER 2022

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Why this project?

The starting point of this project is based on the motivation to tackle different connected problems: the early sport specialization focused on technical skills, the restricted choices & conditioning pre-orientation of children towards unique sport disciplines, the early selectivity of young athletes & progressive dropout from sports practice, the limited awareness towards the multisport benefits by parents, their practical difficulties to face alone the challenges of a multisport proposal (in scattered clubs), the resistance from sports clubs and federations to accept a collaborative approach among them, the marginalization of minor sports, the consequence of all this on the low level of youth physical literacy observed at school and in society.

What this project is about?

The project aims to promote a multisport approach to physical literacy by designing a model of practices that unifies the richness of territorial sports offer and the educational concerns for balanced growth & empowerment of youth based on improved soft skills.

This is a 1st small experimental step towards a new territorial model of Sports Welfare (contributing to a public health mission), based on the collaborative involvement of local socio-economical resources and on their rationalized and harmonized integration.

The multisport culture should facilitate a reverse perspective: from young people at the service of sport (as disciplines), to sport (as experiences) at the service of young people, putting at the center their needs and desires in terms of wellbeing & personal fulfillment.

Which is the aim of the project?

The project aims to promote a multisport approach to youth physical literacy, based on the promotion of a precise cultural matrix articulated around 3 key concepts:

  • Physical Literacy: to develop the ability and motivation of the children to capitalize on their movement potential, not only to move efficiently, but also move creatively, competently, with enthusiasm and with emotional and social intelligence.
  • Long Term Athlete Development: to use a developmentally appropriate approach towards children aged 6-12 by focusing on the first three stages of this model because specifically dedicated to encourage physical literacy and sport for all:
    • “Active start”
    • “FUNdamentals”
    • “Learn to train”
  • Sport for life: to conceive quality sport towards children as sport delivered with a focus on the optimal holistic development of each individual to make a significant contribution to their quality of life.

Project objectives

Transnational project meetings

20-21 Janauary 2020
I Transnational project meeting
Milan, Italy
20-21 Janauary 2020
June 06 2020
Online Meeting
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June 06 2020
July 17 2020
Online Meeting
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July 17 2020
May 29 2021
II Transnational Project Meeting
Elche, Spain
May 29 2021
11-12 August 2021
III Transnational Project Meeting
Arad, Romania
11-12 August 2021
18-19 October 2021
IV Transnational Project Meeting
Pelhřimov, Check Republic
18-19 October 2021
November 22 2021
Online Meeting
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November 22 2021
10-11 December 2021
V Transnational Project Meeting
Milan, Italy
10-11 December 2021

Online activity during pandemic

Research of Best Practices

In the first part of the project, the partners focused on collecting any relevant multisport good practice aimed at children 6-12 present in their countries, trying to bring out the quality indicators of these experiences (internal or external) as well as the risk factors to take into account.

Creation of multisport models

From this analysis, the partners created different “Multisport Models” to be tested in the communities. Not only, the activities at this stage were related to what could be called an operational “glocalization” process, as it is about preparing the “local” conditions for the implementation of a “global” design, making all the needed practical adjustments to the local context starting from an initial standardized proposal. 

Testing the models

The local activities

MS Summer Camp

ITALY

Multisport Summer Camp

ITALY
INSPIRATION

MS Day at School
MSCamp
MS Walks

CHECK REPUBLIC

Multisport Day at School
Multisport Camp
Multisport Walks

CHECK REPUBLIC
INSPIRATION

MS Summer Camp

SPAIN

Multisport Summer Camp

SPAIN
INSPIRATION

Multisport Activity

ROMANIA

Multisport Activity

ROMANIA
INSPIRATION

The international consortium

L’ORMA (Italy)

L’Orma is an educational agency that develops and offers sportive / expressive training experience based on non-formal education aimed at stimulating personal and professional growth of children, teenagers and adults. Its local activities include school laboratories, summer camps, trainings and it also participates in various EU projects such as collaborative partnerships, training courses, adult education, Erasmus Young Entrepreneur Program, EVS/ESC, pilot-project sport and strategic partnerships.

HODINA H. (check Republic)

Hodina H. is an association from Czech Republic established in 2002 that focuses on the non-formal education and personal development of youth, families and seniors in the local community. Hodina H’s mission is to get, elaborate and provide information first of all to children and young people, to ensure in this way their right to have information, support permanent and sustainable learning and personal development, full-valued leisure time spending, to develop international cooperation, voluntarism, active participation of children, young people and general public in the public happening, to assist and facilitate the citizens’ education. Special emphasis is put on the services for children, young people and young people with fewer opportunities, but also families and seniors.

ACD LA HOYA (Spain)

ACD La Hoya is a Spanish Cultural and Sport association born in 1982 thanks to a group of young people doing sport and group of people doing theater. Based on the principles of cooperation, integration, environment protection, solidarity, humanity and universal human values, ACD La Hoya promotes an environment in which the community will be able to create, think, realize the ideas of its members, by building the conditions to express their positions and reactions on important issues, by supporting bottom up initiatives, by improving social work and facilitating the integration of young and adult people into society, especially those of rural areas. More concretely, ACD La Hoya aims to give to the youth and community possibilities to use their time for the better, in sport activities, art workshops, cultural events, European projects, but also in taking part actively in the work of the association, by encouraging their creative spirit regarding youth and adult participation in both local community and society in general.

Clubul Sportiv Experienta Multisport (Romania)

CSEM is a non-profit organization focused on the promotion of sport as a means for a healthy lifestyle, with a proven track record in organizing local sports events and activities for and with young people. CSEM actively encourages, supports and promotes participation in multiple sports to help mostly children and youngsters but also adults to improve their physical, mental, and social skills, from the starting conviction that a multi-disciplinary approach to sport and physical training is the key of building physical literacy in youth, and this can effectively contribute to provide them with the foundation for personal achievement both in sports as well as in life.