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Best practice to promote sport at schoolThis section offers access to a collection of toolkits to promote sport at school.
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Physical Education Teachers
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Teachers
Teachers of all subjects can contribute to promote sport at school
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School Directors
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A database of resources for teachers, PE teachers and school directors for the promotion of sport at school.
Sporting events are organised in each partner country
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Sport and School
Promotion and integration of all sports into curricular activities
Education for Ethical Based Sport
The importance of an ethical approach to sportEvents
The Not Only Fair Play project has been promoted through conferences and articles.
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Contractual Partners
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access information about the schools involved in the Not Only Fair Play Project in the 9 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
A number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to ensure the project sustainability by continuing to use the project deliverables over the next years.
This section of the Not Only Fair Play portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission, and is password protected.
Initiatives
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Collection of initiatives aiming at promoting:
- awareness of importance of sport at school level
- social inclusion and prevent early school leaving
- an ethical approach to sport
- all types of sports at school level
Title of the initiative:Safeguarding Youth Sport
Web site of the initiative:Date of the Event:2014-2015
Country:Belgium, Romania, United Kingdom
City:Ghent (kick-off meeting and coordinator location)
Sport:Multi sports
Aims:promotion of an ethical approach to sport
Description of the initiatives:“Safeguarding Youth Sport” is an 18 month “Erasmus for all” project coordinated by ICES (International Centre Ethics in Sport). The ten other partners involved in the project are: the Croatian Olympic Committee, the German Sport University of Cologne, ENGSO Youth, the Lithuanian Sports University, the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Sport Federation, Panathlon International, the University of Oradea (Romania), Child Protection in Sport Unit (UK), the University of Southern Denmark, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).
It aims to safeguard young elite athletes from integrity threats, both moral and physical, by improving training and competition conditions through collecting of theoretical insights and gathering good practices on the subject.
Young athletes often cross their own boundaries in order to achieve a higher performance level. By doing so, not only the risk of injuries and overtraining raises (physical integrity threat), they also are vulnerable to mental pressure (moral integrity threat). Young athletes’ strong dependence on coaches, parents and peer-pressure within a club, encourages them even more to push their own boundaries to the extreme in their attempt to achieve their sporting goals and dreams.
To prevent integrity threats of young athletes, the individual empowerment needs to be stimulated (A) in combination with a conducive ethical climate (B).
(A) Empowerment gives the athlete the means to indicate his/her own limits;
(B) A conducive ethical climate shapes a setting where an individual feels no resistance to express his/herself and where his/her physical and moral considerations are taken into account.
The project ended on the 13th of May 2015 with a final conference that brought together around 80 participants from 12 European countries, including representatives of the European Commission, the European parliament, national Olympic committees, (inter)national sport federations, national public authorities responsible for sport, as well as researchers, sport psychologists and elite coaches.
The objectives of the conference were:
• to present an overview of the project’s activities, conclusions and recommendations;
• to discuss the contributing value of empowerment and ethical climate in safeguarding;
• to gather feedback from European elite sport stakeholders;
• to raise awareness of safeguarding young athletes at elite level;
• to debate future possibilities on safeguarding elite youth sport.
It aims to safeguard young elite athletes from integrity threats, both moral and physical, by improving training and competition conditions through collecting of theoretical insights and gathering good practices on the subject.
Young athletes often cross their own boundaries in order to achieve a higher performance level. By doing so, not only the risk of injuries and overtraining raises (physical integrity threat), they also are vulnerable to mental pressure (moral integrity threat). Young athletes’ strong dependence on coaches, parents and peer-pressure within a club, encourages them even more to push their own boundaries to the extreme in their attempt to achieve their sporting goals and dreams.
To prevent integrity threats of young athletes, the individual empowerment needs to be stimulated (A) in combination with a conducive ethical climate (B).
(A) Empowerment gives the athlete the means to indicate his/her own limits;
(B) A conducive ethical climate shapes a setting where an individual feels no resistance to express his/herself and where his/her physical and moral considerations are taken into account.
The project ended on the 13th of May 2015 with a final conference that brought together around 80 participants from 12 European countries, including representatives of the European Commission, the European parliament, national Olympic committees, (inter)national sport federations, national public authorities responsible for sport, as well as researchers, sport psychologists and elite coaches.
The objectives of the conference were:
• to present an overview of the project’s activities, conclusions and recommendations;
• to discuss the contributing value of empowerment and ethical climate in safeguarding;
• to gather feedback from European elite sport stakeholders;
• to raise awareness of safeguarding young athletes at elite level;
• to debate future possibilities on safeguarding elite youth sport.
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