SCOUT (Sport Clubs Opening Up To all girls’ Participation), the Erasmus+ Sport project co-financed by the European Union, has officially started and will be active until December 2024. The main objective of the project is to promote inclusion in sports of girls aged between 8 and 12 who are vulnerable and at risk of social exclusion.
The partnership sees AE Carles Vallbona (Spain), as lead partner; Istres Provence Volleyball (France); Univesidad de Vic (Spain) and Grup de Recerca Educacio Fisica of Vic (Spain) as academic partners responsible for impact assessment; AIC (Germany), responsible for the implementation of the pilot program, and Anderlini who will deal with the communication and dissemination of the project.
SCOUT focuses on institutionalized sports practices, or otherwise known as organized sports, which take place through sports federations and clubs. The focus on organized sport was chosen because clubs tend to be considered the privileged environment for sport, especially for children and adolescents. Evidence to date indicates that participation in institutionalized sports can play an important role in a child’s or adolescent’s development in several aspects: social, motor, emotional, behavioral and psychological. Sports practice is at the epicenter of the extracurricular activities that children carry out today and which occupy them more outside the family environment (excluding school).
For Anderlini it is the fifth experience in European projects, after Ethics4Sports, Funball, Dona and Sportboard.
