European Life Goals Games 2020

Background The foundation ‘Life Goals Netherlands’ stimulates that vulnerable people participate in our society through sport. We focus on people who are stuck in life for whatever reason. Homeless people, status holders, addicts, refugees, teenage mothers, ex-prisoners or confused persons in the shelter. They have in common that they are vulnerable, but want to get a better grip on their lives. Together with our international partners, we will organize the European Life Goals Gaems in 2021. Objectives The European Life Goals Games 2021 is a not-for-profit sport event that focusses on allowing socially excluded groups to participate in sport. The main aim of the event is to create social inclusion and equal opportunities for socially excluded groups. With this event we directly address the topic of discrimination and intolerance towards socially excluded groups by giving these specific groups a central stage during the event. Implementation The European Life Goals Games 2021 was hosted by the city of Utrecht. This seven day multisport event brought over 400 participants together. Prior to the event, all team supervisors were trained as social sports coaches. During the event all participants took part in various sports and workshops. In addition, the participants were trained to become social sports coaches, with the aim to inspiring other people in their country to #beactive. Achievements With the ELGG we have achieved the following results: - We have educated and trained 40 sports coaches from 13 EU-countries.- We have created voluntary job opportunities for 154 vulnerable individuals in the Netherlands.- The European Life Goals Games hosted 423 participants, 299 of them followed the course to becoming an assistant social sports coach- Data Life Goals monitord: According to most participants, the European Life Goals Games 2021 were a great success.