Deadline: October 17th 2023 | Funding For Youth Emergency Sport Actions
Grants are available from the European Commission (EC) under the Pilot Projects and Preparation Actions (PPPA) Programme to assist youth sports emergency initiatives.
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Objectives
The following are the project’s goals:
- Promote the community integration of children and young people affected by humanitarian crises like war in the communities that are hosting them
- Enhance mental health and aid in trauma recovery for such children and young people through sport;
- Ease adaptation;
- Forge connections with the communities that are hosting them and incite other sports organisations to establish support programmes by sharing experiences and best practises.
Scopes
- The goal of this pilot project is to promote youth and child integration into the community. These people will finally be prepared to adapt to their new environment if they improve their mental health by participating in sport activities. Sport activities will promote engagement with the host community and ease absorption into the educational and employment systems thanks to their ability to unite individuals. Since it is simpler to respond to integration needs by implementing activities at the local level, those activities should be organised at the local, grassroots level, primarily through grassroots sports groups, involving only one country. Children and young people impacted by humanitarian crises and mass migration processes in the context of war will be the main beneficiaries.
- Sports, games, and other activities need to be planned to achieve certain social and psychosocial objectives. Age-appropriateness, cultural sensitivity, and consideration of gender roles in the community are all requirements. Experienced coaches will assist participants feel comfortable by encouraging them to perform activities that they already know, building on their existing physical capacities. Cooperation between grassroots sports groups and organisations that may provide social, psychological, or educational support would therefore be crucial and necessary. Sport4federations would also be involved in this project, primarily as facilitators. This proposal’s secondary goal is to encourage other sport clubs to create assistance programmes by sharing and publicising successful strategies.
Financial Details
- The available call budget is calculated at EUR 1 947 953
- Projects should typically take between 12 and 18 months to complete.
Expected Result
The anticipated outcomes consist of:
- Encourage young people directly affected by the war to participate in worthwhile local activities in their host communities through athletics;
- help people recover from trauma, acclimatise to new surroundings, and form connections with the temporary hosting communities;
- Attending sporting events can help persons who have been relocated with their physical and emotional health;
- Gather lessons learned and best practises for sharing and further motivation to launch comparable initiatives throughout Europe.
Impact anticipated
- Sports, games, and other activities need to be planned to achieve certain social and psychosocial objectives. Age-appropriateness, cultural sensitivity, and consideration of gender roles in the community are all requirements.
- Experienced coaches will assist participants feel comfortable by encouraging them to perform activities that they already know, building on their existing physical capacities. Cooperation between grassroots sports groups and organisations that may provide social, psychological, or educational support would therefore be crucial and necessary.
- Sport4federations would also be involved in this project, primarily as facilitators. This proposal’s secondary goal is to encourage other sport clubs to create assistance programmes by sharing and publicising successful strategies.
eligibility requirements
- Participants who qualify (countries who qualify)
- The applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must meet the following requirements in order to be considered: they must be legal entities (public or private bodies), established (have a registered legal office) in one of the eligible countries, i.e., EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), and they must be organisations that are actively involved in sport (such as a sport federation or club), with legal personality (public or private body).
some instances
- Natural people — Natural people are not eligible (with the exception of single proprietors who are self-employed and whose company does not have a separate legal personality from that of the natural person).
- International organisations — These groups are qualified. They are not covered by the restrictions on qualified nations.
- Entities without legal personality — In exceptional circumstances, entities without legal personality under national law may participate, provided that their representatives are able to bind them to legal obligations and provide guarantees for the protection of EU financial interests on par with those provided by legal persons.
- EU organisations — EU organisations are not permitted to join the consortium, with the exception of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
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