SafeSPORTevent

#SAFESPORTEVENT INTERNATIONAL MEETING WAS HELD IN SARAJEVO
19.06.2022
In the period 16-19 June 2022 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina was held #SafeSPORTevent meeting for exchange of good practices that gathered the partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to finalize the project outputs. During the mobility, the consortium had as well fruitful meetings with local stakeholders from Bosnian Olympic Committee, SWORD security agency and a practical visit to European Wheelchair Basketball Championship. At the meetings has been tested the safety and security protocols and discussed ideas and good practices in the field of safety and security in sport and has been exchanged views on the potential development of the mutual cooperation on the topic in the future.
#SafeSPORTevent project comes in very challenging times for Europe and the world when safety and security are crucial and the sport sector is not an exception. #SafeSPORTevent is an Erasmus+ co-funded initiative that aims to protect athletes, officials and fans, participating in sport events, 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. #SafeSPORTevent project aims 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 ensures 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 is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European union and is coordinated by Bulgarian Sports Development Association in cooperation with BRAVO - Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sofia Security Forum (Bulgaria), ΑΕΤΟΙ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ (Greece) and Karasu Gençlik, Sanat ve Spor Kulübu Derneği (Turkey).