Specialization in Sports and Health

Erasmus

COMBINING THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SPORT VOLUNTEERING

ERASMUS+ KA153- Mobility Of Youth Workers - 12 - 18 September 2022 - Aksaray Turkiye

ASÜ Specialization in Sports and Health Coordinatorship (ASÜ Spor ve Sağlık Alanında İhtisaslaşma Koordinatörlüğü) has developed this project in order to create an environment where both theoretical information and practical experience about volunteering in sports will be shared and discussed.

The main idea of this project is to promote the soft and hard skills of any youth workers -including trainers, coaches, PE teachers, young people, college students etc- who works in the field of sport with volunteers and also assisting these people with good examples in the frame of volunteering. The mentioned hard skills can be described as theoretical knowledge of administration of the process and management in divergent sport branches especially with young people with fewer opportunities. These kinds of basic knowledge will be covered in this project through assorted seminars and trainings which will be instructed and lectured by experienced academicians/experts. And the designated soft skills in this project are communication skills, competent decision making, ethics and organizational skills. We are planning to support youth workers to foster these mentioned soft skills via different informal and non-formal methods and other tools/technics that will be applied during the project mobility.

The main objectives of the project are:

- conducting a meaningful analysis on the needs and expectations of local or foreign volunteers’ while defining their strengths and weaknesses with professional/educational priorities

-being able to set measurable and realistic goals with a local or foreign volunteer (by means of a consensus); the realization of which will guarantee the development of the volunteer's competences and will ensure satisfaction with the work that completed

-promoting high-quality youth work engaging in volunteering in sport by expanding the range of tools

-lecturing the participants about how to integrate young people with fewer opportunities into sport volunteering

-training youth workers about sport events/project management and risk management in sport

-transferring academic study and analysis results on participation opportunities for young people with physical obstacles

-sharing the best examples and applications sport volunteering in sport within the scope of youth and community work

-supporting integration and team building processes with volunteers

-monitoring the development of hard and soft skills of a volunteer - attainability of the assumed goals

-evaluating the volunteering process (before-after) with the volunteer while specifying the ways to improve satisfactory works.

-sharing the project results with stakeholders in the field of volunteering, with the organizations which run national and international sport events with volunteers such as EUSA or sport federations.

-increasing the awareness among our participants to develop their professional competences and personal competences/ skills.

Results:

Please click here to see th theoretical session Goal Setting

Please click here to see th theoretical session Implementation

Please click here to see th theoretical session Mentoring

Please click here to see th theoretical session Monitoring

Please click here to see th theoretical session Evaluation Assessment

Please click here to see th practical session Volunteering in Sport