A Fairer Coaching
Promoting an equal and inclusive coaching in Europe
The Project
The project contributes to the key priority of the Programme, “Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education, training, youth and sport”, specifically addressing the Horizontal Priority in the field of Sport “Promoting education in and through sport – promoting the quality of coaching and staff”: the action aims at increasing equality, inclusion, diversity and fairness of coaching in the European sports system by promoting an inclusive and equal overall model of coaching, empowering coaches themselves and specifically those who work with young athletes and youth sectors, as well as sport organizations and institutions to work towards this objective and, therefore, towards a more balanced coaching system in Europe. Through combined actions of capacity building, awareness raising and networking among coaches, sport organizations, sport society in Europe, the project wants to enhance cooperation among coaches and organizations that represent and employ them to improve their impact in overcoming inequalities and distortions that still persists in many different fields of this role, to ensure a positive representation of coaching that will contribute to increase the quality of education offered to coaches and of the overall sport system in Europe.
Target groups of the projects
Sport coaches
who work with and prepare young athletes and grassroots sector
Sport coaches’
associations and organizations
Young athletes
Objective
The Main Objective of the project is to Increase preparation, exchange and networking of sport coaches who work with young athletes and grassroots sectors to spread and develop an equal, inclusive and respectful model of coaching in Europe.
The project defines the following Specific Objectives
1.
Strengthen skills and preparation of coaches working with young athletes to be equal and inclusive, with specific focus on including women and promote disabilities sport, recognizing, preventing and contrasting abusive and discriminatory behaviours in sport
2.
Promote capacity, practices and opportunity of cooperation for sport organizations and coaches’ organizations in Europe to boost a model of coaching that can contribute to a safer, more inclusive and equal sport environment for young athletes, building on and strengthening previous knowledge
3.
Give voice to young athletes and coaches in Europe to promote the Fairer Coaching movement among general audience and sport system through positive storytelling of experiences of equality, inclusion and respect in coaching and through coaching
4.
Push decision makers / policy makers in sport – sport organizations and coaches’ organizations / federations, public and local authorities – to adopt A Fairer Coaching model steadily, increasing the number and quality of women coaches and increasing the preparation on para sport, to put equality and inclusion in coaching into practice.
e-learning course
The e-learning course for the “A Fairer Coaching” project aims to empower coaches working with youth in grassroots sports to promote equality, inclusion, and prevent abusive or discriminatory behaviours in sports.
Also focused on supporting women and athletes with disabilities, this course offers coaches the skills and knowledge to create inclusive environments and foster positive coaching practices.
Coaches will engage in peer-to-peer learning, exchanging experiences and strategies across EU countries, building a supportive network for long-term impact.
This course adopts a person-centred approach, strengthening the capacity of coaches and their associations to foster positive, inclusive sports environments across Europe, ensuring the sustainability of its impact beyond the project’s duration.
All the Modules contribute to give you a full perspective on fair and inclusive coaching, nonetheless it is possible to follow them in a different order than the one proposed, if you feel like focusing first on one topic rather than another.
By completing the course, a certificate will be received by the participants, attesting their participation. In order to do so, we will ask you to share with us your first and family name, and an email to contact you to.
The course is and will always be completely free. All the resources used are produced by the partners or their source is clearly mentioned.
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24th – 26th September 2024 TpM2 Sofia, Bulgaria
The meeting held in Sofia was an opportunity
24th – 25th January 2024 TpM1 Bologna, Italy
The first TpM was an opportunity to get to know
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Project “A Fairer Coaching” is Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.