“Social cycling and cultural biking”

Background Sport can be used as tool for promoting, exploring and preserving Europe's cultural heritage by people of any social, economic, religious, and sexual context, we decided to collect all the partners’ good practices in the sphere and to design and test an innovative online source that promote the sports of mountain biking, and cycling as a tool for social inclusion and a way to create common European values. Objectives Cycling in all its forms is gaining more and more popularity in Europe. The two major topics that the project addresses are:1. Encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport and everyday life.2. Promote entrepreneurship, ecological and cultural education in and through sport with special focus on skills development. Implementation We had three meetings on which we designed tools ready to be used on how to use cycling and mountain biking as tools for promotion of cultural and historical heritage, creating social cycle touring routes in the partner countries to promote the value of each country’s typical landscape, historical and cultural heritage and online advices for fostering entrepreneurship, promoting, exploring and preserving Europe's cultural heritage by people of any social, economic, religious, and sexual context. Achievements 1. We successfully held 3 transnational meetings;2. Created and promoted a booklet;3. Created and promoted a guidance on how cultural, historical and natural heritage can be used for personal development and social inclusion with concrete examples of this;4. A website was created;5. A very successful and well-received Facebook page was created.