BeachBlast: Empowering Life Skills Through Coastal Rowing Beach Sprint

2026-07-22

"The BeachBlast project fits into the specific priorities of Erasmus Sport, aiming to promote education in and through sports, focusing also on the development of ""horizontal life skills"". Coastal Rowing Beach Sprint is a rowing discipline gaining popularity worldwide. Including this discipline in the LA28 Olympics and introducing mixed-gender crews represent significant steps toward inclusion and the appreciation of diversity in sports. It is a multidisciplinary sport that combines running, racing, navigation, and power in an extremely unpredictable playing field like the sea. Being very spectacular and having a high adrenaline component, this discipline is very popular among young people. Rowing Beach Sprint is a recent sport discipline, the literature on the subject is very limited, and much remains to be defined for the training standards based today on the experimentation of individual coaches. The project aims to create a training program - The European Coastal Rowing Beach Sprint training program for Youth, tools for a better future - scalable and replicable and useful for coaches, volunteers, and athletes across Europe, all connected by a digital tool – a WebApp. The activities are practical and will involve athletes, coaches and managers to confront the sports training techniques connected to the learning of horizontal life skills. The technical Workshop will determine the guidelines and the training program that will be usable through the digital tool of the WebApp. The subsequent activities will see the young participants through a battery of tests to confirm the goodness of the training program also for their personal growth and the learning of horizontal life skills. They will be able to share this experience at Camp with other young people from other partner clubs involved in the project. Finally, they can disseminate the results during the European Week of Sport through the organization of a final local events in each country."

Italy

2025-10-15