In the last two decades, there has been an increasing concern in including sport in the European Union’s agenda for development as sports can be an essential tool to increase employability, create new jobs, and promote labour market integration In the last two decades, there has been an increasing concern in including sport in the European Union’s agenda for development as sports can be an essential tool to increase employability, create new jobs, and promote labour market integration and work capacities.
In 2011 the EU emphasised the importance of sports as a tool for social inclusion, regional development and employability. Since then there have been three Work Plans for Sport, being priorities of the final work plan: 1) Integrity of sport, 2) Economic dimension of sport, 3) Sport and society.
The project “Skills by Sport 4 the Mediterranean” (SbS4Med), aligns with the EU priorities mentioned above.
The SBS4Med intends to promote social transformation in the Mediterranean region using Sports as a “tool” for addressing the social and economic problem of low employment, massive migration processes and insecurity.
The education and skills development in and through sport allows for better integration of youth in the labour market and achieve its needs.
The project aims to deliver knowledge and information about how the skills and competencies of coaches and athletes can contribute to employability.
The projects’ final objective is to promote a synergetic relation between sports and labour market.
Mission
Sport as a tool for empowerment to tackle the high unemployment rate in the Mediterranean Basin and promote social inclusion is the core mission of the SbS4Med project
Aims
Social transformation
Social Transformation by promoting work capacities, employment and entrepreneurship.
Identify Skills
Identify a set of skills (including soft skills), transferred by coaches and sports instructors to different target groups, that are useful for integration in the labour market and enhance employability.
Awareness
Create training courses for coaches for the raise of awareness on the skills and competencies developed through sport, and support them in developing eventual missing skills requested by the labour market.
Impact
Awareness
Raise awareness about the relevance of sports’ skills for the labour market
Coach qualification
Promote training and qualification of coaches to transfer their knowledge, soft & life skills, enhancing the employability of the athletes.
Contact Group
Have a long-term contact group with the South Coast of the Mediterranean on employment through sport.
Spread of practices
Implementation of these practices across all Mediterranean basin (including South and North Border)
Project Timeline
2020
Research Gap Analysis
2021
Research Gap Analysis
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Development of Platform
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Implementation of Trainings
2022
Implementation of Trainings
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Pilot Actions
2023
Pilot Actions
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Conclusion
WorkPackages
WORK PACKAGE 1: Research Gap Analysis – INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 1 [2020 <-> 2022]
WORK PACKAGE 2: Training Course & Platform Development – INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 2 [2020 <-> 2021]
WORK PACKAGE 3 – Training Sessions – INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 3 [2021 <-> 2021]
WORK PACKAGE 4 – Pilot Actions – INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT 4 [2022 <-> 2023]
