Sport without Boundaries

Background The goal of the project was to promote social inclusion, shatter stereotypes, and support equal chances in sport, to emphasize the significance of grassroots sport and volunteerism in Europe. We focused on a.inclusion of all, b. promoting equal opportunities, and c. encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Even in the face of a pandemic, combining the expertise of all partner organizations, we achieved the goals set by the project, having to implement a few changes. Objectives The partnership wanted to show the importance of leading a healthy life and encourage people to do it, encourage equal opportunities and volunteerism in the field of sports, promote social inclusion of people with fewer opportunities. This was planned and done through a training course, sports camp, methodology, a public platform with online resources, social media campaign, video contest and a football championship. All these activities focused on inclusion of all and promotion of sports. Implementation The project was successful thanks to the expertise of the partner organizations and cooperation between them. Each of the partners has made significant input into all of the activities, was active during all the meetings that were held monthly (online) and several times - live. The quality board has been meeting once a month to assess the project's progress and quality of implemented activities, including those of dissemination. They also helped analyze the feedback received from participants. Achievements Despite the obstacles we had to deal with during the project, the partnership is really satisfied with the results that it managed to achieve through the activities that it has implemented. We did our best to stick to the original description's terms as much as possible. Moreover, we managed to implement everything that was planned, included a lot of people in the activities and spread the word about the project’s topic following an efficient dissemination plan.