OPS 

Description

Open Air Sport

Budget € 59,500
Funding: Erasmus+ Sports Budget

Description

Project Summary

OPS project addresses the topic to promote education in and through sport with special focus on skills development since its main objective is to promote outdoor sports accessible to all and practicable in natural environments without expensive equipment and infrastructure and to create connections between sport-based activities and local culture, meanwhile stimulating local skills development or sport organization based also on cultural heritage to enhance local development and tourism. 

The project intends to support sports organizations, local public authorities and businesses in the tourism and sports sector to plan, promote and organize sport events at municipal and provincial level with a specific focus on inland and marginal areas which lack sports facilities.

Project Objectives

  1. find good practices to experiment model of intervention fostered by municipalities and stakeholders in the partner countries (an integrated model shared among schools, local authorities, private and public entities, sport and tourism operators, as instrument to promote both physical activity and territories). 
  2. Encourage people living in rural areas to do regular physical activities and sports. 
  3. Promote sports events and physical activity linked with artistic and cultural events – outdoor sports can contribute to promoting cultural heritage and vice-versa. 
  4. Have a cross-sectoral approach and transnational network to pursue the project’s main purposes. 

Consortium

  • European Platform for Sport Innovation – BE
  • Ovidius” University of Constanta, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport – RO
  • European Culture and Sport Organization (ECOS) – IT
  • Creps Rhône Alps/PRNSN (CREPS) – FR

Materials And Publications

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