Abstract
The Sport and physical activity are essential for improving health and well-being and can play a significant role in preventing diseases, obesity or other health related problems. The sport sector, especially the local level, relies heavily on volunteers in sport for engaging more people for being physically active. The involvement of volunteers in sports is a key factor to the success and long-term sustainability of sport clubs, organizations and events. Sport organizations and clubs all over Europe play a crucial role in encouraging and engaging people to get physically active. The current project refers to the contribution of all participating organizations for promoting voluntary activities in sports and developing awareness towards such involvement.
The following project objectives have been specified in view of bringing positive solutions to the described situation:
• To promote volunteering in sports through extra-curricular activities and courses in view of increasing innovation capacity of sport clubs’ delegates and other related target groups to involve volunteers
• To embed innovative approach towards volunteering in sports, through mainstreaming the development of awareness towards volunteering actions in sports;
• To encourage sport clubs to stimulate volunteering in sports in view of developing such mindsets among their members
• To stimulate sport clubs on how to better engage volunteers in their activities
• To enhance the volunteering spirit among young people in sport practice in general
• To demonstrate the benefits of multidisciplinary educational approaches by the development of “Training module and training guide on enhancing volunteering in sports”;
• To encourage the development of a multilevel cross-sectorial system that fosters learning through direct involvement in volunteering in sports activities.