Educational Laboratory

This project targeted over 300 volunteers, managers and staff of non-profit sports organizations. The aim of this project was to increas partner organizations’ capacity in managing sport associations and clubs by: encouraging the cooperation and development of network between partner organizations; organizing non-formal education for target groups on how to operate at transnational level to exchange their good practices on sport organization management; how to use free online tools in order to ensure the visibility of their organization and its activities, to gain more new members and how to connect their organization activities with other industries (e.g. tourism) which may bring added value to sports and organizations at whole; how to develop marketing activities, what opportunities are provided by the EU through co-financing of various programmes (especially related to the Erasmus + Sport Programme). Project targeted and empowered volunteers, managers and staff of non-profit sports organizations. It was implemented in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.We have informed general public regarding opportunities for non-profit sports organizations and their staff. Within the scope of the Mobility workshops, experts in various fields offered a non-formal education to target groups on: laws and national strategies for non-profits; good governance in sport; management of the sport on local, regional and national level; rofessional development and education of administrative staff – possibility of dual careers for athletes; funding of sport organizationa through national and EU programmes; Low budget and free marketing tools; gender equality in sports and inclusion of disabled persons and volunteers.Through organized Mobility workshops, target groups were presented with possibilities for non – profit organizations, managers, staff and volunteers and collected examples of good practices between participating countries, resulting in the success of all project partner organizations in soft skill upgrade of the participants. All directly or indirectly involved stakeholders such as kinesiologists, sports organisations, national and local government representatives wholeheartedly supported the project, on their specific professional grounds.The project contributed to a facilitated communication with the decision-makers who proposed adequate measures for promoting additional education of sport organizations staff, managers and volounteers.The innovative element was the inclusion of target groups in the Mobility workshops, which proved to be a strong support in gaining new skills for the administrative staff in the field of EU and national funding, connecting organizations activities with other industries (e.g. tourism), but also in the development of new initiatives in the field of formal education of sports administrative staff in order to create new job positions and new educational possibilities.Second, owing to project activites, target group gained new kind of non-formal knowledge in media and PR, not common in other non formal educations. In addition, an emphasis was put on how to implement programmes for persons with dissabilitis but as well as how to engage women as volunteers and administrative staff, especially women athletes. At the same time, the network of stakeholders, the transfer of best practices, knowledge and experiences among partners and all good solutions contributed to a wider reach and impact of the project. An evaluation of the non – formal education was done through surveying target groups with the aim of maintaining the sustainability of the project results. Project outcomes were presented in 3rd Transnational project meeting in Croatia .We took care of the visibility and dissemination. We prepared visibility tools: logo, leaflets, project posters, roll up-s, web page, and certificates of attendance.