NEWS

AN ONLINE MEETING OF THE #SAFESPORTEVENT PROJECT PARTNERS WAS HELD
21.05.2021
An online meeting of the #SafeSPORTevent project consortium was held on May 21, 2021, bringing together project partners from Bulgaria, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece. During the meeting the partners discussed the dates for the international training course in Sofia and took the decision to implement it in the period 21.08.2021 – 24.08.2021.
#SafeSPORTevent project comes in very challenging times for Europe and the World when the European Commission's main objective is the safety of all Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps participants and far abroad – protection of any further similar challenges that might come in future. As European Commission is working passionately to help in the fight with biosecurity emergencies such as #COVID19, the present project will provide practical scenarious and tools for sport organziations to ensure safety and security protocols, developed with and for sport entities that can ensure the proper reactions of sport managers, organizers and volunteers in case of security emergency.

#SafeSPORTevent main aim is to protect athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions and especially during forcemajor security threads that need to be handled by specific security protocols that at this point of development do not exist in sport sector. The project will support the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport organisations for educational purposes and will enrich their skills and knowledge for reaction in safety and security situations.

The practical focus of the project is to develop skills and knowledge through educational mobility of sport managers, volunteers and administrators in order to empower them to co-create and use specific protocols for safety and security, tailored for sport events and gatherings of huge groups of people in sport environment. Through increased educational possibilities in the field of safety and security in sport, #SafeSPORTevent project would make positive change in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey as direct project beneficiaries, but also all over Europe as project deliverables will be freely shared with the sport community.

#SafeSPORTevent project is co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.