CROssING - Coastal rowing for a green, intergenerational and gender-balanced future
▶Summary
About to become an Olympic game (LA Olympics, 2028), coastal rowing is a very fast-growing water sport. CROssING (Coastal rowing for a green, intergenerational and gender-balanced future) is a project that not only organizes not-for-profit European sport events at a culminating point of his history, but also makes sport coastal rowing activity a trigger for growth and development of European coastal zones in a future to be characterized by green, intergenerational and gender-balanced perspective. 6 nautical clubs in coastal zones (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, and Slovenia) + a company with expertise in social participation for local development, form a 7-partner consortium in this 12M project. CROssING promotes both intergenerational and gender-balanced participation in sport/physical activity and places nautical clubs at the core of the debate on a green future growth for coastal zones. Activities foreseen: · 6 local preparatory events (6 Fun & Green Days + 6 local regattas) in 6 countries, to involve a great number of participants (100 per club) in the local communities, with a special focus on intergenerational and gender balanced sport engagement and on coastal respect; educational activities using the project app Crossing Game. Deliverable: Guidelines for green, intergenerational and gender balanced coastal sports · a European Coastal Rowing and Green camp: a workshop on CR with final Flagship Regatta for athletes of all 6 clubs in an educational/sport event in Italy, during the 2024 European Week of sport · Publicly demonstrable achievements of green, intergenerational and gender balanced practices in all 6 clubs · Signed Commitment of organizations in each country in Sustainable Sport-driven Local Development Agreements (SLDA), with local green activities in each country. · Commitment to UN Sports for Generation Equality Framework 2020, a powerful multi-stakeholder coalition to make gender equality a lived reality in and through sport.