The Sport Chapter in the Erasmus+ Programme aims to support European partnerships on grassroots sport in order to pursue the following objectives:
Tackle cross-border threats to the integrity of sport, such as doping, match fixing and violence, as well as all kinds of intolerance and discrimination;
To promote and support good governance in sport and dual careers of athletes;
To promote voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity, through increased participation in, and equal access to sport for all.
Focus is to be given to grassroots sport.
Erasmus+: Sport Small Collaborative partnerships
Small Collaborative Partnerships will allow organisations to:
develop and reinforce networks;
increase their capacity to operate at transnational level;
exchange good practices, confront ideas and methods in different areas relating to sport and physical activity.
Selected projects may also produce tangible outputs and are expected to disseminate the results of their activities, although in a way that is proportional to the aim and scope of the project. Small Collaborative partnerships involve various organisations including in particular public authorities at local, regional and national levels, sport organisations, sport-related organisations and educational bodies. Small Collaborative Partnerships will in particular aim at ensuring the continuity of Preparatory actions 2013 and are, in particular, projects aimed to:
Encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport;
Promote European traditional sports and games;
Support the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport organisations;
Protect athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions;
Promote education in and through sport with special focus on skills development.
Small Collaborative Partnerships should promote the creation and development of transnational networks in the field of sport. The EU can thereby provide opportunities for strengthened cooperation among stakeholders, which would not have existed without EU action.
Small Collaborative Partnerships should also foster synergy with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies to promote sport and physical activity and to address sport-related challenges.
