Active in Sport Again!

Background The project Active in Sport Again! aims to encourage social inclusion of former elite athletes by organizing non formal workshops and recreational sport activities in order to increase their capacity and support their reactivation in sport and everyday life. Objectives General objective of the project is to encourage social inclusion of former elite athletes. The specific objectives: raising awareness on the importance of social inclusion of former elite athletes; raising awareness on the importance of organizing recreational sport activities for former athletes; building the capacity of former elite athletes; collecting and recording the best practice cases and experts recommendations for motivating the former elite athletes to recreational sport activities Implementation During the project implementation, we have organized Transnational project meetings. Also, we have implemented the activity-Preparation of materials for Capacity building workshop. Then we have organized the following activities: Capacity building workshops (online during the 2nd TPM and locally in each partner country), implementation of pilot programme, preparation of AS-A! Handbook and activity of communication, dissemination and visibility. Achievements Project Handbook was developted with focus on the measures and recommendations aimed at improving social inclusion and psychophysical condition of former athletes in project countries and in EU. Other results: Successfully implemented project; Exchanged experience and best practices; Raised awareness and capacity of all stakeholders and target groups; Raised awareness of the general public and decision makers about the objectives and activities of the project and the added value of the project