Goals Beyond the Field: Empowering Youth through Sports and European Values

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"""Goals Beyond the Field: Empowering Youth through Sports and European Values” stands out for its innovative approach to integrating European Youth Goals with sports activities, creating a unique educational and developmental experience for young people with fewer opportunities. In 12 months action plan, led by IKOS and supported by a consortium of 2 youth organizations (AURYN and INTERCULTURA) and 2 sport clubs (Çağdaş Kolejliler and VC Strumica), the project targets 16 youth workers/sport staff and over 320 youth with fewer opportunities directly from rural areas and low socio-economic status and min. 230 stakeholders from public, civil and sport sectors. The project's core activities include local sports events and conferences aligned with significant days like Europe Day, an international training course in France for youth workers and sports staff, local ideathons for developing sport-based social solutions, local sport actions to promote European Youth Goals during the European Week of Sport, and an international youth and sport mobility in North Macedonia. These actions will be complemented by ongoing PR and dissemination efforts, including a dedicated website, podcasts, digital pin and social media engagement to ensure wide visibility and impact. Our project deliverables will include a Training Kit on Education Through Sport (ETS), a European Youth Goals Assessment Matrix, and a Project Booklet, all designed to integrate sports with European Youth Goals and document the project's methodologies and success stories. ""Goals Beyond the Field"" aspires to be a model for using sports as a tool for social change, impacting hundreds of youth across Europe and setting a foundation for sustained engagement in sports education and youth empowerment. By integrating the European Youth Goals to sport actions, we will would like to increase the European dimensions’ reflection on our local works targeting youth with fewer opportunities."