The project aims to provide a framework and training materials for sport teachers and trainers that will enable them to conduct trainings with youngsters at school (aged 7-16 years old) and in sport clubs on implementing sports activities that embrace the nature as an entity to be respected from an ecological point of view, thus reducing and avoiding any impact on the nature from exercising sports activities (destroying forest grounds, damaging plants and wildlife, etc.).

By undertaking such awareness training among youngsters, sustainable and ecology friendly sports and healthy enhancing physical activities will be propagated.

Students and youth will be stimulated to learn more about ecology education as well as to play grassroot sports including possibilities to find solutions, working together in realising them and strengthening their social skills in propagating the social inclusion impact to other peers and stakeholders, thus creating an “awareness ecosystem via sports” with direct results.

Objectives

To raise the number of young people who pursue sports activities outdoors (such as archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, canoe / kayak, curling, cycling, football, golf, handball, shooting, skating, skiing, table tennis, volleyball, motorcycle racing, mountaineering and climbing, orienteering, roller sports, sport climbing, squash etc.) in an eco-friendly manner.

To raise the knowledge in terms of differentiation between types of sport and sports equipment as well as motives and reasons to use of areas hitherto unused or seldom used and areas already in use being opened up for new eco-purposes.

To increase the individual, spontaneous activities without proper training through building up non-formal youth communities, aiming to implement sports in an ecological manner, and preventing the environment being damaged (trash, etc.).

To promote and further develop forms of sport which are compatible with nature and the environment.

To make sports-related infrastructure more environmentally compatible.

To reduce damage to vulnerable areas.

To secure and improve opportunities for sports and physical activities outside vulnerable areas.

Target groups:

sport youth leaders and workers that are organising sports activities current active sports / physical education teachers/trainers students/youngsters (aged between 7 and 16) all citizens in the society

Start: 1 January 2020

Duration: 36 months

Project Web Site : https://www.ecofriendlysports.eu/

Project Facebook Site : https://www.facebook.com/Ecofriendlysportactivities/

Prof. Dr. Seyhan FIRAT (Gazi University Coordinator)