Volunteering And Rugby Inclusion Engaging Dreams

Background The City Council of Cullera developed a similar sport project called Sprinters in 2017 (Reference number: 579916-EPP-1-2016-2-ES-SPO-SCP).Sprinters was a transnational European project which wass coordinated by the municipality of Cullera and financed by the European Union and Erasmus+. The transnational association was composed of institutions, managers of protected natural areas and sport organizations of different European countries. Spain, Latvia, Italy, Bulgaria and France. Objectives To:Promote & encourage youth development & active participationIncrease interest &motivate the desire for personal developmentCreate conditions for the development & success of youthEncourage the professional development of disadvantaged peopleStrengthen the spiritual values of civil societyFacilitate social integrationConduct social events & organise voluntary & other support initiativesPromote & encourage the development of volunteeringSupport children youth from problematic families Implementation Duration: January 2020 to June 2023 (initially 24 months, extended to 30).Activities including: initials actions, recruitment of volunteers, local networks creation, transnational network development, pilot actions, training sessions, local festivals & trans. festivals in Corsica (France), Cullera (Spain).Trans. administrative & management meeetings (venues).Disseminations tasks: website, video, social media netwoks.Intelectual outputs by the UV & TRI (later translated to local language). Achievements Creation of: 1. National volunteering networks.2. Transnational volunteering networks.3. Inclusive rugby teams.4. Permanent Observatory (guidelines, studies, courses, reports, databases, polls, indicators, statistics...) to study & promote best practices on volunteering in social inclusion through sport.5.Permanent inclusive rugby network between all the partners that could grow incresingly to reach the whole European Union. Actually it doesn’t exists.6. Translations to local languages.