Our organization is a project partner of the sports program from Erasmus+. In light of our project’s overall aim “Increasing the intersectoral cooperation among active sports actors across Europe to draw attention to the inclusion and empowerment of youngsters with fewer opportunities in the basketball field”, 12 monthly action plans under 2 WPs have been designed. With the consortium consists of 1 (non-profit) Foundation, BIDEV from Turkey, and 2 Sport Clubs BK Klatovy from Czechia and SCS from Bulgaria; we are aiming to raise the capacities of the organizations by exchanging know-how and underlining how basketball can be used to support the social empowerment of young people from upbringing backgrounds.
The applicant organization BIDEV is a new non-profit institution founded by nationally and internationally well-known prominent persons to create social value and goodwill through and around basketball. With the involvement and contribution of our distinguished partners from BG & CZ, the first step in small-scale partnership is highly valued.
The specific objectives of the project are:
SO1- Bringing EU-labelled cooperation to the local dimension to emphasize the importance of sport as a tool for social empowerment among NGOs, schools, and sports clubs, SO2- Increasing the methodological capacities of youth coaches to improve the social empowerment of disadvantaged groups due to the youngsters upbringing backgrounds,
SO3- Creating meetings, and campaigns making them lead by youth in order to bring role models together with youngsters to avoid their lack of motivation and give them the inspiration to make the sport an essential place of their lives – and encourage them to be active to reach these objectives, 3 International Meetings and Local activities will be organized. Local intersectoral Meetings – to create further collaboration strategies in basketball-, Local Training by coaches – targeting 120 young people with fewer opportunities.