Sport for Life

Although sedentary habits and customs have grown in recent years, sports and physical activity must be a fundamental part of each person's daily life for maintaining his/her comprehensive health. From the childhood, we began to participate in sports or outdoor activities of different type and levels, which teach us values, behaviors and conducts that shape us as people and in some cases as professionals, sport being a real school of life, such as underlined on 2007 White Paper on Sports.To this purpose, organizations from six different countries (Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Norway and Spain) have applied the 12-months project "Sport for Life" whose main aims were:-To improve the key competences of workers, educators, trainers and other professionals in the field of sports;-To promote a better quality of youth work and its ability in response to diversity;-To exchange experiences, good practices and methodologies among organizations and professionals from six countries;-To design activities where sport is a tool for inclusion, participation, equality, peaceful coexistence and social transformation;-To create new tools to work through cross-curricular subjects through sport.To achieve these objectives, we designed different activities, among which we have:-Local Activities phase I: each organization made an analysis about the sports situation in its country/area, a mapping of stakeholders, meetings with decision-makers, athletes, other organizations, educational centers, local population, etc. and identification of existing good practices at local level.-Seminar/Mobility to Spain: training about cross-curricular subjects in the field of sport, to exchange good practices between professionals from different countries and create new tools to develop a better-quality work and more focused on social needs.-Local work phase II: Free workshops about social pedagogy applied to sport, inclusion and social transformation, healthy living and risk prevention, cooperation and culture of peace in sport were held in each country, to put into practice the new acquired competences, spread them among other workers and interested people, making local population aware of sport as a school of life. Project visibility activities were also organized to make it known, as well as learning and cooperatives games.- Intellectual results, visibility and presentation events in each country: project materials were collected in an eBook, available in seven languages, and a documentary video; both can be found online free of charge. In all countries, activities of visibility and presentation of the outputs and outcomes were held and in Málaga a multiplying event has been organized at the Andalusian Institute for Sports, located in the Ciudad Deportiva de Carranque.The project was framed within the non-formal education; therefore, all the content was worked in a dynamic and enjoyable way, it was a learning by doing, which emphasized the active participation of all and where knowledge was created by the own knowledge.After the end of the project, we can state that participants have improved their key competences, being able to develop themselves as persons and as professionals, partner organizations of the project and others of their local networks have exchanged good practices, known new tools and are more aware of the importance of an international job; the same for society in general, since contributing to make young people more committed, responsible and healthy, contributes to the construction of a more fair, supportive and tolerant society.