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22.11.2024
In the period 10-22 November 2024, 10 coaches and administrators from sports institutions in Bulgaria took part in a specialized training held in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, organized as part of the US State Department for Sports Diplomacy initiative – Sport for Social Change and kindly hosted by PH International. The program aimed to share best practices and promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in education and sport through innovative approaches such as Unified Sports.
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08.11.2024
On November 8, 2024, "Vasil Levski" National Sports Academy and Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA) made another significant step towards consolidating their long-standing partnership for the benefit of Bulgarian sport by signing an agreement for joint activities. This document reinforces the successes already achieved and outlines the way for further expansion of the cooperation. The signatures to the agreement were affixed by the Rector of the NSA, Prof. Krasimir Petkov and the chairperson of BSDA, Joanna Dochevska. The meeting was attended by Assoc. Prof. Stefka Dzhobova and Ivaylo Zdravkov – representatives of both institutions, who discussed the prospects for new joint initiatives.
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16.10.2024
On October 16, 2024, the Industry 5.0 Community of Practice (CoP 5.0) held its plenary session and the event brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators to discuss the role of Industry 5.0 in enhancing the long-term competitiveness of EU industries. Bulgarian Sports Development Association (BSDA) proudly took part in the event as a member of the CoP 5.0 network, furthering its commitment to integrating cutting-edge practices in the field of sports development.
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07.10.2024
In the period 4-7 October 2024, the final international partner meeting of the Sport Community Against Eating Disorders (SCAED) project took place in Skopje, North Macedonia. The project was co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and was attended by representatives from six European organisations, including Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia and Greece. Ivaylo Zdravkov, board member of Bulgarian sports development association and Nikola Zdravkov, coordinator of the Youth Section of BSDA took part in the meeting.
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04.09.2024
On September 4th 2024, an online capacity building event on European funding for sustainable sports infrastructure was held. The event was part of the SHARE 2.0 Community of Practice (CoP) initiative for EU funding. The main objective of the event was to provide participants with valuable information on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and funding opportunities for sustainable sport projects.
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21.08.2024
Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA) took part in a work meeting on youth policy, organized by the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) in its role as National Agency for the European Programmes Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps. The meeting took place on the 21st of August 2024 in Sofia and was attended by Petar Mladenov – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Youth and Sport, Nikolay Spasov, Executive Director of the HRDC, Dimka Radeva – Secretary General of the HRDC, Vesela Mareva – Director of the Youth Policies Directorate at the MYS and Atanas Radev – Chairperson of the National Youth Forum, as well as 50 youth organizations from across the country. Current challenges and issues in the youth sector were discussed.
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02.07.2024
On the 2nd of July, 2024, SHARE 2.0 Community of Practice on Innovation organized a training event dedicated to "Innovative digital and collaborative solutions to engage young people in grassroots sport”. The event was held online and brought together key stakeholders to explore new ways to promote youth participation in sports.
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31.05.2024
In connection with June 1st – Children's Day, a happy and active celebration was held for the children of Zlatitsa. The children had the opportunity to enjoy a variety of fun games and competitions filled with music and dances, tailored to their different ages.
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02.05.2024
On May 2, 2024 – the Holy Thursday, from 11:00. until 12:30 the traditional painting of Easter eggs and sports games took place on Sveta Nedelya Square and was attended by children from the capital's kindergartens. At 12:30 a festive procession started with children carrying icons and baskets of painted eggs, led by clergymen of the Sofia Holy Metropolis. The host of the event was Nadezhda Panayotova, the Bulgarian voice of one of the favorite Disney cartoon characters – Elsa.
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30.04.2024
In the period 27-30 April 2024, in Madeira, Portugal, the final partner meeting of the CHEER project took place, during which the partners discussed the activities implemented within the project, which aims to improve the mental health of young people by stimulating their creativity and harnessing their youth enthusiasm. During the partners' meeting, the finished intellectual outputs of the CHEER project were discussed – CHEER metaphorical maps, CHEER training videos, CHEER podcasts and the launched #cheer.education campaign on Instagram. These products are part of the initiative, that aims to improve and optimise the mental health of young people.
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02.04.2024
On 28.03.2024 and 02.04.2024, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held an online presentation of the materials developed within the CHEER project. During the training, the finished intellectual outputs of the project were presented – CHEER metaphorical maps, CHEER training videos, CHEER podcasts and promoted the launched campaign #cheer.education on Instagram. These products are part of the project, and aim to improve and optimise the mental health of young people.
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20.02.2024
The Bulgarian Sports Development Association (BSDA) is proud to announce its participation in the kick-off meeting of the SHARE 2.0 Community of Practice (CoP), which took place online on February 20, 2024. This event marks the commencement of an exciting phase for the SHARE initiative, which has been at the forefront of promoting sports and physical activity's role in regional and local development across Europe since its inception in 2018.
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20.01.2024
On the 20th of January 2024, in the town of Bansko, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event within the framework of the EntrepreNEETs initiative, in which sports specialists, sports managers and professionals in the field of sports participated. During the event, the prepared training materials under the project were discussed and tested, as well as the future partnership activities. ЕntrepreNEETs is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management, digital, and ICT skills.
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22.12.2023
On December 22, 2023, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association participated in an online partnership meeting within the project 'Academy for Youth Workers 2.0'. Participants had the opportunity to discuss the project team's specially designed pilot training program 'Youth Workers Academy 2.0', virtual escape rooms for youth organizations, and their future activities and initiatives.
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15.12.2023
From December 13th to 15th, 2023, in Athens, Greece, the final partner meeting took place within the project "An educational and training program for older adults at risk of developing dementia through table tennis /hAlt/". During this meeting, partners discussed the activities realized within the project, which examines how sports activities can contribute to improving the lives and well-being of individuals with Alzheimer's. Table tennis is one of the most engaging brain activities, and even older players can enjoy playing it. This sport positively impacts physical activity levels, improves attention and concentration, and enhances visual-spatial skills.
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10.12.2023
The third edition of the innovative international collaboration event EUSportLab, bringing together professionals in the sports sector, took place in Milan from December 8th to 9th, 2023. The initiative aimed to foster new partnerships, enhance the quality of already developed projects, and establish new sports initiatives within the framework of the European Union's "Erasmus+" program. With a collective vision to address the current needs of communities within the European Union and offer specific solutions with sustainable impact, 70 representatives of international sport organizations collaborated. These organizations leveraged the experience, competence, and professionalism of participants, sharing knowledge and striving for real, tangible, and lasting impact within their communities.
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20.11.2023
The #BeActive Awards are part of the European Commission’s annual European Week of Sport campaign. The awards recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations who have demonstrated their commitment to promoting active lifestyles across Europe. The #BeActive Awards 2023 are designed to celebrate organisations and projects that have thrivingly promoted sport and physical activity throughout Europe and in 2023 include four categories:
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13.11.2023
On November 13, 2023, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" in Sofia, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association held an event as part of the "Multisport Community Experience" project, engaging sports educators, coaches, and students. The project is a collaborative partnership with five partner organizations: the Bulgarian Sports Development Association (Bulgaria), Sports Association in Dubrovnik (Croatia), European Platform for Sports Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and the University of Thessaly (Greece).
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09.11.2023
On November 9, 2023, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" in Sofia, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association held an event as part of the "Multisport Community Experience" project, engaging sports educators, coaches, and students. The project is a collaborative partnership with five partner organizations: the Bulgarian Sports Development Association (Bulgaria), Sports Association in Dubrovnik (Croatia), European Platform for Sports Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and the University of Thessaly (Greece).
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27.10.2023
On October 27, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association organized a training course as part of the 'SCAED - Sport Community Against Eating Disorders' initiative. Coaches and sports specialists from Bulgaria participated in the event, where topics such as the challenges faced by athletes, parents, coaches, and sports organizations related to eating disorders and dietary habits were presented and discussed, as well as the goals and activities of the project, as well as its future actions in Bulgaria, were commented on.
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23.10.2023
On October 23, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association organized a training course as part of the 'SCAED - Sport Community Against Eating Disorders' initiative. Coaches and sports specialists from Bulgaria participated in the event, where topics such as the challenges faced by athletes, parents, coaches, and sports organizations related to eating disorders and dietary habits were presented and discussed, as well as the goals and activities of the project, as well as its future actions in Bulgaria, were commented on.
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19.10.2023
On October 19, 2023, the second meeting of the Public Council at the Committee for Citizens' Participation and Interaction with Civil Society at the Forty-Ninth National Assembly took place. After an open procedure for the selection of members in the Public Council, the "Bulgarian Sports Development Association" was chosen as the main representative in the field of competence "Physical Education and Sports." In this meeting, the "Bulgarian Sports Development Association" was represented by Yoanna Dochevska, the organization's chairperson.
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19.10.2023
On October 19, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association organized a training course as part of the 'SCAED - Sport Community Against Eating Disorders' initiative. Coaches and sports specialists from Bulgaria participated in the event, where topics such as the challenges faced by athletes, parents, coaches, and sports organizations related to eating disorders and dietary habits were presented and discussed, as well as the goals and activities of the project, as well as its future actions in Bulgaria, were commented on.
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21.09.2023
Following an open selection procedure for members of the Public Council to the Commission for Direct Citizen Participation and Interaction with Civil Society in the Forty-Ninth National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association will serve as the primary representative in the field of competence 'Physical Education and Sport.' In the work of the Public Council, BSDA will be represented by Yoanna Dochevska and Associate Prof Stefka Djobova, Board members of the organization.
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19.09.2023
On September 19, 2023, at the National Football Base "Boyana" in Sofia, Bulgaria, the second national roundtable within the framework of the Council of Europe's initiative - Start to Talk, took place to discuss the development of a roadmap and additional work needed to finalize and define the role of the child protection officer, their profile(s), necessary competencies, and training programs. The meeting also discussed measures and policies for child protection in sports, modern models, and key elements required in developing the roles of child protection officers, including the skills, knowledge, and experience of the individual. Representing the Bulgarian Sports Development Association (BSDA), Ivaylo Zdravkov, a member of the BSDA Board, participated in the event.
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13.09.2023
On September 11-12, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association has organized a partner meeting as part of the project "An educational and training program for older adults at risk of developing dementia through table tennis /hAlt/." During this meeting, partners discussed the progress of project activities and planned future initiatives that explore how sports and physical activities can contribute to improving the lives and well-being of individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Table tennis is one of the most brain-engaging physical activities, and what's even better is that even older players can enjoy playing table tennis. This sport has a positive impact on physical activity levels, improves attention and concentration, and enhances visual-spatial skills.
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11.09.2023
In the period 7-11 September 2023, Sofia hosted the international entrepreneurship training program "EntrepreNEETs," aimed at young women (aged 18-29) with the goal of promoting female entrepreneurship in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Slovakia. Each country selected five participants, who over the course of three working days, discussed the challenges facing women entrepreneurs and worked on innovative ideas based on social and community needs.
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29.08.2023
In the period from August 27th to 29th, 2023, a international meeting was held in Ormož, Slovenia, within the framework of the project CHEER, which aims to improve the mental health of young people by stimulating their creativity and harnessing their youthful enthusiasm. The crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic has had a negative impact on young people in Europe. The fight against the pandemic and the introduced restrictive measures have weakened the mental well-being of the youth. Many of them feel that this crisis is taking away the most valuable period of their lives – their youth. As a result, young people are facing numerous mental challenges for which they are not receiving sufficient institutional and social support.
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18.08.2023
On August 18, 2023, at the Balsha Monastery "St. Theodore Stratelates," the Bulgarian Sport Development Association organized training within the "Multisport Community Experience" project, attended by sports educators and specialists. The project is a collaborative partnership with five partner organizations: Bulgarian Sport Development Association (Bulgaria), Sports Association in Dubrovnik (Croatia), European Platform for Sport Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and the University of Thessaly (Greece).
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07.08.2023
On August 7, 2023, the Bulgarian Sport Development Association conducted an online event as part of the "Youth Workers Academy 2.0" project. Participants had the opportunity to experience several specially designed virtual escape rooms for youth organizations, featuring various scenarios that needed to be resolved, created by the project team.
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05.07.2023
In the period July 3rd and July 5th, 2023, an international partnership meeting for the "SCAED - Sport Community Against Eating Disorders" project was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. Coaches and experts from six partner organizations - Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia, and the host country Greece - participated in the event.
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19.06.2023
The final meeting of the On the way to acceptance – a non-formal Youth program of innovative tools to learn project was held in Ankara, Turkey on June 19, 2023. Joanna Dochevska – chairperson of BSDA took part in the meeting, during which the materials created by the project team – comics, metaphorical cards and digital Escape room, were discussed. The partners from Bulgaria, Poland, Greece and Turkey also discussed future joint initiatives in the field of youth.
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15.06.2023
From June 12th to 15th, 2023, an international conference and partners meeting were held in Copenhagen (Denmark) as part of the Fit For Kids Europe initiative, bringing together policymakers in the field of sports and healthcare from 10 European countries. The main goal of Fit for Kids Europe is to establish a network of sports associations and non-governmental organizations in the EU that are willing to collaborate in order to increase the participation of inactive children and children with overweight and obesity in organized sports activities after school. Over 4 million children in the EU are overweight, which costs the Union 80 billion euros annually invested in healthcare systems to address this issue, and 70% of these children will continue to be overweight as adults.
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15.06.2023
In the period June 12-15, 2023, the final meeting of the "ORIENT - Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering" project was held in Graz, Austria. During the meeting the achieved results of the project were discussed, as well as the ways to popularize them. The consortium consists of 5 European countries and one country from the Western Balkans: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the main aims of the project was to encourage young people's participation in outdoor activities based on the sport of 'Orienteering' and also how to address and promote “social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport” by developing a set of innovative learning outcomes.
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09.06.2023
On the 9th of June 2023, in the town of Samokov, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event within the framework of the EntrepreNEETs initiative, in which sports specialists, sports managers and professionals in the field of sports participated. During the event, the prepared training materials under the project were discussed and tested, as well as the future partnership activities. ЕntrepreNEETs is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management, digital, and ICT skills.
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08.06.2023
In the period 07-08 of June 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, an international partner meeting under the #Train4Inclusive project was held. During the meeting the achieved results were discussed, as well as the future project activities were planned, with an emphasis on the specific training program for coaches of athletes with disabilities. The consortium consists of 5 European countries: Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.
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06.06.2023
On June 6, 2023, in Samokov, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event within the framework of the "ORIENT – Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering" project, which is implemented in partnership with 5 European countries and one country from the Western Balkans: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project aims to improve social inclusion and information about local realities in different countries, while promoting a sense of freedom and positive change at local level, encouraging the participation of young people in outdoor activities based on orientation. The project aims to consider the priority "promoting social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport” by developing a set of innovative learning outcomes.
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31.05.2023
On 31.05.2023, with the blessing of His Holiness Metropolitan Sofia and Patriarch Bulgarian Neophyte, Episcopal Vicarage – Kyustendil, together with the Municipality of Kyustendil, Regional Department of Education – Kyustendil, Regional Library "Em. Popdimitrov" – Kyustendil, Regional History Museum "Acad. Yordan Ivanov" – Kyustendil, community center "Brotherhood 1869" – Kyustendil, Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity – Sofia, Sunday School at the Church of St. Martyr Paraskeva – Sofia, Art school "The New Masters" – Kyustendil, Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD, Bulgarian sports development association and Theater Company "Empty Space" organized a Celebration of the Orthodox Spirit and Traditions.
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28.05.2023
In the period 25-28 May 2023, an international meeting under the EntrepreNEETs initiative was held in Milan, in which representatives from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Slovakia participated. During the event, the prepared training materials of the project were discussed and tested, as well as the future partnership activities. ЕntrepreNEETs is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management, digital, and ICT skills.
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27.05.2023
In the period May 25-27, 2023, an international meeting of the consortium implementing the Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids project was held in Sofia. The initiative promotes social inclusion and equal opportunities, and its main goal is to develop a methodology for physical education using sports activities, sports games and exercises for children and young people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities. The project team is focused on the groups that have to overcome more challenges in the inclusion in sports activities, games and exercises. The event was held at the Center for Family Counseling at the Local Commission for Combating Antisocial Behaviors of Minors, Mladost metropolitan area, with secretary Mrs. Stela Tsakina.
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27.05.2023
In the period 25-27 May 2023 in Vienna, Austria, and international meeting under the South-East European Youth Parasport Exchange SEEYou project was held, during which the partners discussed the organized sports camps for children with intellectual disabilities held in the partner countries, as well as the training of sports specialists working with them. The meeting was attended by Stefka Djobova and Ivelina Kirilova – representatives of the partner organization from Bulgaria – Bulgarian sports development association.
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22.05.2023
On May 22, 2023, in the 81st Innovative School "Victor Yugo", Mladost region, a European sports festival was held, in which more than 200 children from the school itself took part, as well as future students from №59 "Elhitsa” and №56 "Zdravets" kindergartens. The participants had fun with sports and relay games, and Darko Team Athletics School contributed to the sports smiles, which besides with the sports specialists, joined in with an attractive mascot that delighted the children – the Darko wasp. A large number of volunteers took care of the excellent organization, including young people from metropolitan schools and young sports specialists from the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy.
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18.05.2023
In the period 16-18 May 2023, an international partner meeting under the Fit For Kids Europe project was held in Amarante, Portugal. The main goal of the ”Fit for Kids Europe” project is to establish a network of EU sport associations and other related NGO’s who wish to collaborate on increasing the participation of inactive, overweight and obese children in after-school organized physical activities. Joanna Dochevska and Ivaylo Zdravkov – board members of BSDA – took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association (partner in the project from Bulgaria).
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17.05.2023
In the period 12-17.05.2023, in Milowka, Poland, a training for youth workers working with young people with limited opportunities in their countries was held. Within the training program the metaphorical cards CHEER, the training videos CHEER and the CHEER podcasts, which aim to improve and optimize the mental health of young people, were presented and analyzed. Diana Hadjiangelova, Velina Toneva, Nadezhda Panayotova, Elena Dimitrova, Vladimir Spasov, Suleyman Suleyman and Petar Shopov took part in the international mobility, representing Bulgarian sports development association (the Bulgarian project partner).
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12.05.2023
On May 12, 2023, in the House of Europe in Sofia, an international conference Sport and Non-formal Education was held, which aimed to present interesting international and national practices, as well as to give pedagogical experts the opportunity to discuss with their colleagues the challenges and opportunities that the non-formal education faces.
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09.05.2023
May 9, 2023 marks the 16th anniversary of Bulgaria's membership in the European Union. Our country joined the European family in 2007, believing in the words of one of the founding fathers of the EU, Jean Monnet, "There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union". On May 9, 2023, from 10.00. until 12.00, in Zaimov Park, a sports holiday and celebration of Europe Day was held, which was attended by children from the capital kindergartens: kindergarten № 100 Acad. Petko Raikov; kindergarten № 104 "My World", kindergarten № 191 "A Tale Without an End", kindergarten № 195 " Mormarevi Brothers ". The host of the event was Nadezhda Panayotova, the Bulgarian voice of one of the favourite Disney cartoon characters – Elsa from Frozen.
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04.05.2023
On May 4, 2023, Bulgarian Sports Development Association held a training course under the "Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids" project. It was attended by more than 55 teachers, students, sports specialists and coaches, who got acquainted with the training program in detail and had the opportunity to discuss, exchange opinions, ideas and impressions regarding the conducted training modules. After the training, the participants expressed the opinion that sports and sports programs can be extremely beneficial for children suffering from various types of disorders. These programs can have a positive effect on children's physical and mental health, and can also help them develop in all aspects of life.
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04.05.2023
On May 4, 2023, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event under the "Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids" project. The event was attended by more than 30 athletes with special educational needs who tried and tested the FIT KIDS training program, having the opportunity to discuss, exchange opinions, ideas and impressions. The training program helps children build self-confidence, improve their social skills and learn to work in a team. In this way, they cope better with stress and feel more confident in themselves in different situations. For children who suffer from various types of disorders such as autism, dyslexia or dyspepsia, such training programs can be extremely beneficial, enabling them to better cope with their challenges and develop in all aspects of life.
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02.05.2023
Bulgarian sports development association held an online training course under the "Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids" project. It was attended by more than 30 teachers, youth workers, volunteers and coaches, who got acquainted in detail with the training program and had the opportunity to discuss, exchange opinions, ideas and impressions regarding the conducted training modules. After the meeting, participants expressed the opinion that sports and sports programs can be very beneficial for children who suffer from various types of disorders, including ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma and stress-related disorders, destructive and impulsive behavior or depressive disorders.
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30.04.2023
In the period April 28-30, 2023, in Rome, Italy, the final partner meeting and a closing conference of the EWA project – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs was held. During the event, the prepared training materials (Strategy and Memorandum) and the created centralized model of the "Help Desk – for athletes and women" were discussed with the partners, as well as the crucial role of sports professionals in the fight against abuse, violence and discrimination against women. Board members of BSDA – Ivaylo Zdravkov and Konstantin Zankov took part in the meeting.
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23.04.2023
Bulgarian sports development association took part in the international "Sport4Cancer – Mar Menor Games" event, organized by the University of Murcia (Spain) and the Union of Sports Federations of the Region of Murcia, with a team of 10 representatives with oncological diseases. Sport4Cancer included more than 120 sports activities and was held in the period 20-23 April 2023 in the towns of Cartagena, San Javier, San Pedro and Los Alcazares. The event was saturated with competitions, exhibitions and free sports activities for all spectators and guests. Project "Sport4Cancer" is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and 12 European partner organizations from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey, France, Croatia and Lithuania participate in it.
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21.04.2023
On April 21st 2023, in Berlin, Germany, a midterm meeting under the EntrepreNEETs initiative was held, which brought together the national coordinators from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Slovakia. Joanna Dochevska – Chairperson of BSDA, took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association. ЕntrepreNEETs is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management, digital, and ICT skills.
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20.04.2023
Europe Day held on 9 May every year celebrates peace and unity in Europe. The date marks the anniversary of the historic 'Schuman declaration' in 1950 that set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between Europe's nations unthinkable. Schuman's proposal is considered to be the beginning of what is now the European Union.
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19.04.2023
On 19th of April has been held an EU Health Policy Platform Annual Meeting - Stakeholders’ Dialogue: Joint Statements, Study results and discussion, which was delivered in hybrid settings in Luxembourg and online. The morning session (9:30-12:30 CET) was dedicated to the presentation of the Joint Statements by its Thematic Network leaders, followed by a roundtable to share the lessons learned and possible improvements for next cycles.
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13.04.2023
On April 13, 2023 – the Holy Thursday, from 10:30. until 12:30 the traditional painting of Easter eggs and sports games took place on Sveta Nedelya Square and was attended by over 100 children from the capital's kindergartens. At 12:30 a festive procession started with children carrying icons and baskets of painted eggs, led by clergymen of the Sofia Holy Metropolis. The festive procession reached the "St. Paraskeva" church, 58 Georgi S. Rakovski St. along the following route: Hotel "Sofia Balkan Palace" – underpass of the metro station – Sofia Largo – "Dondukov" Blvd. – Georgi S. Rakovski Blvd. – St. Paraskeva Church. Before reaching the temple, the children were met in front of the central entrance of the Metropolitan Office Fire Safety and Civil Protection (MOFSCP), after which they went to the temple "St. Paraskeva", where the priests gratefully accepted the Easter eggs and cards from the children for the people in need.
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11.04.2023
In the period April 9-11, 2023, in the town of Strelcha, Bulgarian sports development association, together with the coaches and sports specialists from the volleyball club Ahil, Sofia, held training sessions under the Fit For Kids Europe project. 30 children between 7-10 years old, took part in them and took advantage of the innovative program to motivate children and parents for greater participation in sports and physical activity. The "FitforKids" training program is a combination of crossfit, aerobics and classic sports games in the school yard. The goal is to provide children and their families with a positive experience, combined with physical activity, in such a way that, after completing each "FitforKids" workout, they feel happy, proud and closer to their personal goals.
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09.04.2023
On April 9, 2023, in the town of Strelcha, Bulgaria, a training for sports specialists was held under the Fit For Kids Europe project. Sports coaches from the volleyball club Ahil, Sofia, took part in the training. During the event, organized by Bulgarian sports development association, the sports specialists had the opportunity to discuss and exchange good practices regarding successful motivation and the implementation of successful models for physical activity and sports for children and their parents. One of the most serious challenges faced by the children who want to be more active is the lack of accessible sports facilities and infrastructure.
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30.03.2023
On March 30, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the territory of the “Vasil Levski” National Sports Academy, Bulgarian sports development association held an event within the framework of the CHEER project. During the event, the finished intellectual products of the project were presented to the students and lecturers – CHEER metaphorical cards, CHEER training videos and CHEER podcasts, which aim to improve and optimize the mental health of young people. Each of the participants received a gift from the organizers – a luxurious set of metaphorical “CHEER” cards.
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30.03.2023
In the period March 15-30, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the territory of the “Vasil Levski” National Sports Academy, Bulgarian sports development association held a training course within the ACADEMY FOR YOUTH WORKERS 2.0 project. The participants had the opportunity to improve and increase their knowledge about youth work with a focus on online tools, finance and marketing, building a specific network of stakeholders, using online fundraising platforms, etc. 20 young people took part in the training course, who after passing the exam received a certificate for participation.
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28.03.2023
On March 28, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held an online presentation of the youth materials developed within the framework of the CHEER project. During the training, the finished intellectual products of the project were presented – CHEER metaphorical cards, CHEER training videos and CHEER podcasts, which aim to improve and optimize the mental health of young people.
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26.03.2023
In the period 23.03. – 26.03.2023 in the town of Biržai, Lithuania, a final meeting under the Sport for inclusion and inclusion for sport – INsport project was held. The activities carried out and the results achieved within the framework of the project in the individual partner countries were discussed, as well as main recommendations were given for the future practical application of the INsport project, that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care.
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15.03.2023
In the period 12–15 March 2023 in Komotini, Greece, an international youth camp and training of parasport coaches was held within the South-East European Youth Parasport Exchange – SEEYou project. During the camp, young people with various disabilities had the opportunity to get to know the basics of table tennis and take part in an international tournament, while trainings were held for the sports specialists working with them. Training and sports activities contribute to the development of sports for people with disabilities in partner countries – Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany.
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03.03.2023
In the period 28.02 – 03 March, 2023, a partner meeting under the EWA – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs project was held in Limassol, Cyprus. During the meeting, the partner local training sessions, the prepared training materials (Strategy and Memorandum), the established centralized model of the "Help Desk – for Athletes and Women", as well as the crucial role of sports professionals in combating abuse, violence and discrimination against women, were discussed. BSDA representatives Ivaylo Zdravkov, Julian Andreev, Dimana Zhelyazkova and Mariam Biserkova took part in the meeting.
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28.02.2023
On February 28, 2023, an online meeting of the hAlt project consortium was held. During the meeting, the progress of the project activities was discussed and the subsequent ones were planned, which consider the possibilities of sports activities to contribute to the environment of people with Alzheimer. The game of table tennis is one of the most engaging activities for the brain and even older players can play table tennis recreationally. It is a fast moving, competitive activity which positively affects physical fitness levels, improves sustained attention and enhances the development of visuospatial skills.
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25.02.2023
In the period 24-24 of February 2023 was held “Fit For Kids Europe” training for sport coaches, in which on behalf of BSDA took part Joanna Dochevska, Ivaylo Zdravkov, Ivelina Kirilova and Ivan Ivanov. “Fit For Kids Europe” is a co-funded by the European Commission Executive Agency in the scope Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnership Action. Project life time is consisting of 3 and a half years between 01.01.2020 – 30.06.2023. The main goal of the project ”Fit for Kids Europe” is to establish a network of EU sport associations and other related NGO’s who wish to collaborate on increasing the participation of inactive, overweight and obese children in after-school organised physical activities.
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21.02.2023
On February 21, 2023, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event under the On the way to acceptance project. More than 60 sports specialists, educators and students participated in it and got acquainted with the project, its goals, tasks, ideas and target groups, and at the same time had the opportunity to have fun and test the comics, metaphorical maps and the digital Escape room. All participants received gifts – a set of metaphorical cards and a comic book.
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21.02.2023
On February 21, 2023, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event within the framework of the “WOMEN’S HURDLES” project, which aims to develop and implement innovative practices related to the promotion of women's physical activity, especially of those in a dynamic family and work environment. More than 50 sports specialists, educators and students took part in the event, who got acquainted with the project, its goals, tasks, ideas and target groups.
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19.02.2023
On February 19, 2023, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Digital Marketing for Sports Organizations training was held within the WOMEN'S HURDLES project, which aims to develop and implement innovative practices related to the promotion of women's physical activity, especially of those in a dynamic family and work environment. The training was attended by over 20 representatives of sports organizations who want to use digital technologies to promote their activities and attract new users, with an emphasis on the possibilities of attracting inactive social groups.
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16.02.2023
On the 16th of February 2023, an international meeting under the CHEER project was held in Sofia. The project aims to improve the mental health of young people by stimulating their creativity and using their youthful enthusiasm. The crisis related to the coronavirus epidemic is having a negative impact on young people in Europe. The fight against the epidemic and the restrictions introduced weakened the mental condition of youth. Many of them feel that it intends to take from them their most precious time in their life – youth. As a result, young people experience many mental problems without institutional and social support.
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07.02.2023
As a follow-up to the Tartu Call for a Healthy Lifestyle, the HealthyLifestyle4All is the European Commission’s two-year campaign that aims to link sport and active lifestyles with health, food and other policies. The pledge showcases the European Commission’s commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles for all, across generations and social groups, noting that everyone can benefit from activities that improve health and well-being.
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07.02.2023
On the 7th of February, 2023, in Sofia, an international meeting of the consortium implementing the "WOMEN'S HURDLES" initiative was held, which aims to develop and implement innovative practices related to the promotion of women's physical activity, especially of those in a dynamic family and work environment. The project objective is to promote and support EU strategies in the area of social inclusion and equal opportunities of women, which are based on physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. The duration of the project is 24 months and involves 6 partner organizations from 5 European countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Romania and research and online activities have been conducted so far.
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27.01.2023
In the period 24-27.01.2023, in the city of Murcia, Spain, an international partner meeting under the #Train4Inclusive project was held. During the meeting the achieved results were discussed, as well as the future project activities were planned, with an emphasis on the specific training program for coaches of athletes with disabilities. The consortium consists of 5 European countries: Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.
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26.01.2023
On the 26th of January 2023, a partners meeting under the SCAED – Sport Community Against Eating Disorders project was held in the city of Rijeka, Croatia. The results achieved so far, as well as the future activities of the project, were discussed. The consortium consists of 6 partner organizations from Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia and Italy.
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22.01.2023
In the period January 20-22, 2023, in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, a training for pedagogical and sports experts was held, during which Bulgarian sports development association presented the activities and developed materials within the framework of the initiatives #BOOST, Women's Hurdles and On the way to acceptance – all of them co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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10.01.2023
The first meeting of the year of the Public Council on Youth Affairs, in which the Bulgarian sports development association is a member, was held on the 10th of January 2023. Joanna Dochevska, chairperson of BSDA, took part in the meeting. Within the framework of the event, the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Petar Buchkov presented to the Public Council on Youth Affairs the developed new draft of the Ordinance amending and supplementing Ordinance № 1 on the terms and conditions for financing projects under national youth programs.
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19.12.2022
On December 19, 2022, in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a round table during which health and sports experts and specialists discussed topics related to the specifics of physical activity for the elderly. The event was part of the "HEPA-S (Health Enhancing Physical Activity)" project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, which aims to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programme suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis.
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17.12.2022
On the 17th of December, in the Silver City Sports Complex pool, the Christmas #Train4Inclusive training – the Annual indoor competition and Christmas party with surprises of BG & sports for all, was held. The club was set up earlier this year with the main aim of providing equal sporting opportunities for all children and actively involving children with different needs and disabilities, on an equal basis with their peers. The club currently has over 40 children training and almost all of them took an active part in the Christmas competition.
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10.12.2022
In the period 8-10 December 2022, in Milan, Italy, an international meeting under the "Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport - InSport" project was held, which brought together partners from 4 European countries - Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports - Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner of the initiative from Bulgaria, was represented by Joanna Dochevska, Stefka Djobova and Ivelina Kirilova.
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10.12.2022
The second edition of the innovative international networking event gathering professionals working in the Sport Sector was implemented in Milan in the period 09-10 of December 2022. The initiative aims at establishing new collaborations, improve the quality of already development projects and design new sport projects in the framework of the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union. The EUSportLab took place in a historical sport building in Milan - Palazzina Appiani - built as the entrance hall of the arena at the beginning of the 19th century with original function to be the official gallery and guest residence to host Napoleon’s family during his public appearances.
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07.12.2022
Within the framework of a contest for the best presentation in a national initiative to celebrate May 9 – Europe Day and within the framework of the "European Year of Youth" 2022, organized within the framework of accompanying activities eTwinning for Bulgaria, Europas – Bulgaria, Euroguidance – Bulgaria, Eurodesk – Bulgaria and National VET team – Bulgaria in the period 05.05.2022 – 05.17.2022. 44 organizations from all over the country took part in the competition.
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03.12.2022
In the period 30.11.2022 – 03.12.2022, in Sakarya, Turkey the final international meeting under the SONKEI project was held, which was attended by 8 partner organizations form 8 European countries – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Croatia. The partners discussed the project activities so far, as well as the practical educational tool for children and youth to raise awareness about violence in sport.
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03.12.2022
In the period 01.12 – 03.12.2022, the final conference and the final meeting of the “Sports, health and fUn for preschool childreN/SUN” project was held in the town of Samobor, Croatia. Each partner country in the consortium presented the educational sports activities carried out with the preschool children and kindergarten teachers at the national level, and the achieved results were also discussed. Kalinka Gudarovska – board member of BSDA, Diana Hadjiangelova and Velina Andonova – coordinators of health policies and social activities in BSDA took part in the meeting on behalf of Bulgarian sports development association.
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03.12.2022
In the period 01-03 December 2022, the Autonomous University of Barcelona hosted the final meeting of the Happy Bones initiative, which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme and is jointly implemented by Universtà degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico (Italy), Istituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Socio Economico (Italy), Alexandre Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (Romania), Gazi University (Turkey), Fundació Salut i Envelliment (Spain) and Bulgarian sports development association (Bulgaria).
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03.12.2022
In the period 02-03 December 2022, within the framework of the third international scientific congress "Applied Sciences in Sports", Bulgarian sports development association presented the current activities of the organization, including an analysis of the inclusive initiatives supported by the Erasmus+ programme, implemented within the framework of the Train4Inclusive initiative. #Train4Inclusive is an initiative co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, which is implemented by an international consortium including representatives of Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain and aims to develop a methodology and tools that sports coaches and managers of sports activities for people with disabilities are going to be able to use to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social skills.
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24.11.2022
In the period 22-25 November 2022, an international meeting in the framework of the “Sport&NFE” initiative, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, was held in Cologne, Germany. During the event were discussed the developed so far educational content and implemented project activities, as well as the upcoming International conference Education through Sport, which will be held in Sofia in May 2023.
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22.11.2022
On the 22nd of November, 2022, in Boyana National Football Base, Bulgaria, the first meeting within the framework of the Council of Europe initiative – Start to talk was held, during which measures and policies for protection of children in sports were discussed, as well as the current models and key elements needed for the development of the roles of child protection officers, such as skills, knowledge and individual experience. Ivaylo Zdravkov – board member of BSDA, took part in the meeting, on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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21.11.2022
On November 21st, 2022, a dissemination event under the Happy Bones project was held at the "Vasil Levski" National sport academy, which aimed to inform sports specialists, trainers, coaches and sports pedagogues with the specific "Happy Bones" methodology, in which adapted physical activity is applied to people diagnosed with osteoporosis – a progressive metabolic disease of the skeleton. As a result of destruction of the collagen matrix, the bones become thinner and lose their density. The balance between the processes of construction and degradation of bone tissue is disturbed in favor of degradation. Bones become brittle, leading to more frequent fractures – especially in the wrists, spine and hips. With the most dramatic consequences is the fracture in the area of the femoral neck, that is why the creation and validation of such type of protocols is of utmost importance for the correct rehabilitation, recovery and treatment of such type of diseases.
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11.11.2022
In the period 07 – 11 November 2022, in Kaunas, Lithuania, an international meeting and a final conference of the ONE GOAL project were held, in which coaches and experts from 5 partner countries – Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Uruguay and the hosts from Lithuania took part. Kornelia Naydenova, Zlatka Gaberova and Ivaylo Zdravkov took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association – a partner in the project.
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04.11.2022
In the period 01.11.–04.11.2022 in Cascais, Portugal, a final meeting under the MOVING – Learning through mobility of sports’ volunteers project was held. The sports events for people with disabilities were presented, during which the methods developed within the project were tested, as well as the training of the young volunteers in each country of the present partnership, who had the opportunity to participate in the sports events at local level and practice what they have learnt.
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31.10.2022
On the 31st of October 2022, in the city center of Sofia, an orienteering competition for social inclusion was held. Participants were young people aged between 18 and 30 years old who were previously introduced to the participatory mapping method, which refers to community mapping that combines modern cartography with participatory methods to reflect and represent the spatial knowledge of local communities. The young people were divided into 5 teams of 6, each accompanied by a sports coach and a social worker. Each participant received an ORIENT kit with a set of sports orienteering tools developed specifically for the event by the project partners.
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26.10.2022
In the period 24-26 October 2022, a meeting of the Sports, health and fun for preschool children/SUN project consortium was held in Mirandela, Portugal, which aimed to analyze the activities carried out in each of the partner countries. The event was attended by Joanna Dochevska – chairperson of the Bulgarian sports development association (the Bulgarian partner of the initiative). A number of trainings and sports activities that took place at national level in the last two years were presented, as well as the sports event for children and parents “Mom, Dad and I”, which was implemented in Zaimov Park on the 21st of October 2022.
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26.10.2022
In the period 25-26.10.2022, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association held an event under the ENDURANCE project, which was attended by more than 160 coaches, sports specialists, sports pedagogues, physiotherapists and sports managers. The project is implemented in partnership with eight partners from seven countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Spain). During the event, topics such as project management, administration and reporting, guidelines and practical recommendations for the operation of the online interactive training platform "ENDURANCE", practical tasks and forms of creating and administering business projects, were discussed.
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21.10.2022
On the 21st of October, 2022, a sports holiday "Mom, dad and I" was held in Zaimov Park, which was attended by more than 120 children from the 195 "Mormarevi Brothers" kindergarten. The participants had fun with sports and relay games, and Darko Team Athletics School contributed to the sports smiles, which besides with the sports specialists, joined in with an attractive mascot that delighted the children – the Darko wasp. A large number of volunteers took care of the excellent organization, including young people from metropolitan schools and young sports specialists from the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy.
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19.10.2022
On 19.10.2022, in kindergarten №100 "Acad. Pencho Raykov", Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association presented the activities of the "HEPA SUN – Sports, health and fun for preschool children” project, in which pedagogical specialists from the educational institution took part. The event was organized in partnership with the management of the kindergarten in the person of Zlatka Atanasova – director and Mrs. Diana Hadjiangelova from the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA). Interesting information about adapted sports was shared by Ivelina Kirilova, lecturer at NSA Vasil Levski and expert at BSDA.
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19.10.2022
On October 19, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, a local sports event was held under the ONE GOAL project, in which more than 25 female sports coaches took part. During the event, theoretical and practical sessions on the following topics were held: practical knowledge and skills, the necessary practice and qualification needed to practice women's football, methods and practices for the promotion of female football coaches, the promotion of physical and technical qualities of female football players, contemporary role models in women's football and effective psychological methods and techniques for working with adolescents. The event was held with the support of the "Football and Tennis" department at the "Vasil Levski" National Sports Academy with the participation of highly qualified and experienced football coaches, such as Assoc. Prof. Kornelia Naydenova – coach of the goalkeepers in the women's team of Bulgaria and NSA.
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16.10.2022
In the period 11–16.10.2022 in the town of Sassari, Italy, the final international work meeting of the WAYWARD project was held. The event was attended by representatives of the six partner countries – Bulgaria, Vietnam, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Mexico. The project consortium includes organizations working specifically with the target group (young people with intellectual disabilities) by using the Education Through Sport methodology. Representatives of Bulgarian sports development association were Konstantin Zankov, board member, and Teodor Petrov, a volunteer in the organization.
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15.10.2022
In the period October 12-15, 2022, an international training of sports professionals was held in Rome, Italy, within the framework of the "WOMEN'S HURDLES" project, aiming to develop and implement innovative practices related to the promotion of women's physical activity, especially of those in a dynamic family and work environment. The project objective is to promote and support EU strategies in the area of social inclusion and equal opportunities of women, which are based on physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. The duration of the project is 24 months and involves 6 partner organizations from 5 European countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Romania. Research and online activities have been carried out so far. The sports specialists Valentina Nedeva (MVJ SPORT) and Ivelina Dimitrova (Class for your back) took part in the training, as well as representatives of Bulgarian sports development association – Joanna Dochevska, Ivelina Kirilova and Velina Andonova.
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15.10.2022
On 15.10.2022 the final conference of the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) – Health and Fitness Assessment for Seniors project was held in Zagreb, Croatia. The research carried out within the framework of the project in the individual partner countries was presented, as well as an analysis of the impact of the HEPA project on the elderly people who took part in the pilot sessions. The achieved results, the activities carried out and the main recommendations for the future implementation of the HEPA project for the elderly were discussed. Kalinka Gudarovska – board member of BSDA and Emilia Pergelova – international projects coordinator in BSDA took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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14.10.2022
In the period October 11 – 14, 2022, a partner meeting under the EWA project – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs was held in Athens, Greece. During the meeting, the partner local training sessions, the prepared training materials (Strategy and tools for the empowerment of female athletes), the established centralized model of the "Help Desk – for Athletes and Women", as well as the crucial role of sports professionals in combating abuse, violence and discrimination against women, were discussed.
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12.10.2022
On the 11th and the 12th of October, 2022, in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, a partner meeting under the ORIENT project was held. The results achieved so far, the organization of future project activities, as well as the ways of popularizing their results were discussed. The consortium consists of 5 European countries and one from the Western Balkans: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kalinka Gudarovska, board member of the association and Emiliya Tsanova, part of the association's team, took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA). The meeting was held in the building of the Center for Family Counseling at the Local Commission for Combating Antisocial Behaviors of Minors, Mladost metropolitan area, with secretary Mrs. Stela Tsakina.
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07.10.2022
On October 07, 2022, in the Home for adults with intellectual disabilities in the town of Banya – Sonic Start, a table tennis tournament and sports activities were held, which brought to the users and educators of the social service a day full of smiles. The game of table tennis is one of the most engaging activities for the brain and even older players can play table tennis recreationally. It is a fast moving, competitive activity which positively affects physical fitness levels, improves sustained attention and enhances the development of visuospatial skills. Due to these characteristics and the accessibility of the sport, it has been proved through research that table tennis can be effectively used as a prevention and rehabilitation program for people suffering or at risk to develop Alzheimer's and dementia since it activates up to five different sections of their brains simultaneously.
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05.10.2022
On October 5, 2022, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training on the topic "The Key Role of Sports Professionals in the Fight against Violence and Discrimination against Women in Sports", part of the "EWA – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs" project. During the training, the project activities, available training materials, barriers, obstacles and challenges faced by women practicing sports and physical activity were discussed. These barriers operate at multiple levels (verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, cultural, organizational, economic, mediatial, etc.) and are collectively perceived as an overarching chauvinistic culture that permeates every female athlete's career.
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30.09.2022
On the 30th of September, 2022, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sport development association held an event under the “Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability – WAYWARD” project, in which more than 20 sports experts, coaches and sports specialists took part.
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30.09.2022
In the period September 26–30, 2022, Bulgarian sports development association held events for adolescents in Sofia under the SONKEI project, through which the activities and results of the project were tested and promoted. During the events, practices and methods to deal with racism and violence in sports and various methodologies and practical educational tools for children and young people were tested to raise awareness about violence in sports and promote European and universal human values such as respect, courage, mutual aid, empathy, gender equality and inclusion as a tool to prevent violence and intolerance in sport at national and regional levels. The project aims to change people's mindset and initiate social change to ensure a safer living environment.
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30.09.2022
On the 30th of September, 2022, with the support of the "Wrestling and Judo" department at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association, held a sports tournament under the “Professional and personal experience through lifelong learning and regular sport” – Propellers project, in which representatives of the wrestling teams of NSA (men) took part.
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29.09.2022
On September 29, 2022, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training under the "Multisport Community Experience" project, which was attended by sports educators and students. The project is a joint partnership between five partner organizations: Bulgarian Sports Development Association (Bulgaria), Dubrovnik Sports Association (Croatia), European Platform for Sport Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and University of Thessaly (Greece).
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28.09.2022
The international meeting under the Propellers project took place in Sassari, Sardinia, in the period 26–28 September 2022, during which partners from 6 European countries, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Greece, Croatia and Spain had the opportunity to discuss the activities and the educational materials, developed under the “Professional and personal experience through lifelong learning and regular sport” – Propellers initiative. Joanna Dochevska – chairperson of Bulgarian sports development association, a partner in the project, took part in the meeting.
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28.09.2022
On the 28th of September 2022, with the support of the Sports Faculty at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association held an event under the “Professional and personal experience through lifelong learning and regular sport” – Propellers project, in which more than 30 sports specialists took part in. The participants discussed topics such as contemporary opportunities and challenges related to the promotion of voluntary participation in sports activities, awareness of the health enhancing physical activity, the different health models among the EU population, with particular emphasis on the disadvantaged categories (NEET, disabled, elderly, etc.).
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28.09.2022
On the 28th of September,2022, with the support of the "Football and Tennis" Department at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association, held a sports tournament under the “Professional and personal experience through lifelong learning and regular sport” – Propellers project, in which representatives of the football teams of the NSA (men) took part. The event was honored by the head of the department – Assoc. Prof. Emil Atanasov.
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27.09.2022
On the 27th of September 2022, in Kindergarten №195 "Mormarevi Brothers", Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training within the "Sports, health and fun for preschool children (SUN)" project, in which pedagogues and specialists from the educational institution took part. The event was organized in partnership with the management of the kindergarten in the person of Albena Tsocheva – director and Mrs. Diana Hadjiangelova from the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA).
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27.09.2022
On the 27th of September 2022, at the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy, Sofia, Bulgarian sports development association held an event under the “Professional and personal experience through lifelong learning and regular sport” – Propellers project, in which more than 30 sports pedagogues, sports psychologists, coaches and sports specialists took part in. The participants discussed topics such as contemporary opportunities and challenges related to the promotion of voluntary participation in sports activities, awareness of the health enhancing physical activity, the different health models among the EU population, with particular emphasis on the disadvantaged categories (NEET, disabled, elderly, etc.).
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26.09.2022
After the official launch of ENDURANCE, partners kick-started immediately with the implementation and development of the second intellectual output of the project which included and detailed and comprehensive mapping of:
•Best practices/case studies in linking sports and entrepreneurship for sustainable careers;
•Systemic pathways from sports to business;
•Role models and success stories;
•Gaps in current entrepreneurship training for (future) sportsmen and sports students.
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26.09.2022
Links between sports & entrepreneurship are manifold, yet seldom recognized and rarely capitalized upon. The two are rarely found together in VET as effectively connected domains with synergic links: hence the need for much-needed entrepreneurial competences due to low EE in sports-oriented disciplines and lack of tailored entrepreneurship training.
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24.09.2022
On September 24, 2022, in the Silver City swimming pool in Sofia, an adapted swimming event #Train4Inclusive was held, organized within the European Week of Sports by the Bulgarian sports development association, in which athletes with intellectual disabilities took part. #Train4Inclusive is an initiative, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, which is implemented by an international consortium including representatives of Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain and aims to develop a methodology and tools that sports coaches and managers of sports activities for people with disabilities can use to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social skills.
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24.09.2022
On September 24, 2022, within the #BeActive Sports Village of outdoor sports and the #BeActive Night of Sports, which took place in front of the National Palace of Culture, Bulgarian sports development association presented to the citizens of the capital and the sports lovers their current activities and initiatives. In the sports village, over 25 federations and clubs presented their activities through demonstrations and informational materials, and within the Night of Sports, a program was held on stage with demonstrations of sports federations and clubs. The European Week of Sport #BeActive is organized for the eight consecutive year by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Between 23 and 30 September, everyone will have the opportunity to become part of the largest sports festival for amateurs in Europe.
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21.09.2022
On September 21, 2022, on the territory of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" (NSA), Bulgarian sports development association attended an open football training organized in partnership with the management of the Faculty of Sports with Dean Prof. Krasimir Petkov, D.Sc. and the "Football and Tennis" Department headed by Assoc. Prof. Emil Atanasov, Ph.D.
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17.09.2022
In the period 15-17 September, 2022, an international meeting of the consortium implementing the Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids project was held in Sassari, Italy. The initiative encourages social inclusion and equal opportunities and its main goal is to develop a modular based Physical Education methodology of sport activities, sport games and exercising for children and youngsters with mental and developmental disorders, illnesses and other disabilities. The project’s team is focused on the groups that have to overcome most obstacles in doing sports activities, sport games and exercising.
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15.09.2022
In the period September 13-15, 2022, an international meeting under the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) project was held in Sofia. The event was held in the building of the Center for Family Counseling at the Local Commission for Combating Antisocial Behaviors of Minors, Mladost metropolitan area, with secretary Mrs. Stela Tsakina. The partnership meeting aimed to discuss the progress of the project, which aims to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. Representatives of 6 partner organizations from five European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia analyzed and discussed the collected statistical data and results after the completion of the pilot program. In Bulgaria, the program started in April 2022 in the town of Berkovitsa, implemented with the help of local partners from the Health in the northwest association and conducted by Tatiana Elenkova and Plamena Chuburova – proven sports specialists from the town.
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14.09.2022
On September 14, 2022, in Pescara, Italy, a final meeting under the "ENDURANCE" project was held, which is implemented in partnership with eight partners from seven countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Spain). During the meeting, the online interactive e-learning platform for athletes, which includes modules such as project management, administration and reporting, guidelines and practical recommendations for future entrepreneurs, practical tasks and forms of creating and administering business projects, was discussed. The platform is free and can be used by active and former athletes at: https://enduranceproject.eu//
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13.09.2022
On 12.09. and 13.09.2022 an international meeting under the ONE GOAL project was held in Sofia, in which coaches and experts from 4 partner organizations – Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania and Italy – took part. During the meeting, theoretical and practical sessions were held, during which topics such as knowledge and qualifications about women's football, methods and practices for developing the skills of the women's football coaches, improving the physical and technical qualities of female football players and role models in this fast-growing movement were discussed. During the first day of the meeting, a discussion with the number 1 women football player for Bulgaria for 2021 – Simona Petkova was held, who shared her experience and interesting moments from her professional career with the experts and coaches from the partner organizations. Assoc. Prof. Kornelia Naydenova, lecturer in the "Football and Tennis" department at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and coach of the goalkeepers in the women's team of Bulgaria and NSA, took part in the international meeting as a speaker. Ivaylo Zdravkov and Kalinka Gudarovska, board members of the organization, were present on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA).
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11.09.2022
In the period 07–11 September 2022 in Gorni Milanovac, Serbia, an international youth camp and training of parasport coaches was held within the South-East European Youth Parasport Exchange – SEEYou project. During the camp, young people with various disabilities had the opportunity to get to know the basics of athletics and take part in an international tournament, while trainings were held for the sports specialists working with them. Training and sports activities contribute to the development of sports for people with disabilities in partner countries – Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany. The event was attended by Joanna Dochevska, Stefka Djobova and Ivelina Kirilova – representatives of the partner organization from Bulgaria – Bulgarian sports development association, who conducted the training activities and helped with expertise in the sports activities.
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10.09.2022
Children's camp CHILDREN AND THE SEA 2022 was held in the period 4–10 September on the territory of the Water Sports Base "NSA" Nesebar. This is a pilot edition of the camp and 26 children with SEN, GDD and autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome took part in it together with their families. Half of the children practice sambo in the club SEN, Sport, SAMBO for development, and the rest practice swimming in #BGandSportsforAll. For most of them, this is their first sports camp. During the camp, the children purposefully improved their skills in swimming, rowing, sambo and general physical fitness, team play, ball games, relay games, dancing, coordination, agility, speed, concentration, standing in rows and columns, dedication, mutual help, consistency and persistence, and others supporting their independence and sports skills. The activities were supported by the NSA’s Adapted Physical Activity Sector and the Bulgarian sports development association /BSDA/, as well as numerous volunteers who ensured the trouble-free implementation of the initiative.
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09.09.2022
On the 8th and the 9th of September, 2022, in the town of Velenje, Slovenia, a partner meeting under the Train4Inclusive project was held. During the meeting the partners planned the future activities, discussed the results achieved so far, as well as the methodology by which the pilot local training events for sport coaches are going to be developed, as an innovative tool for education through sports activities. The project team is going to develop a specific training program for coaches of athletes with disabilities based on the information collected and analyzed in the previous stages of the project and the manual. The consortium consists of 5 European countries: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Spain. Kalinka Gudarovska, board member, and Emilia Tsanova, part of the organization's team, were present on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA).
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05.09.2022
On the 5th of September, 2022, Bulgarian sports development association completed the four-month free physical activity program of adults, coordinated by the local partner of the project – the Health in the northwest association. The pilot program was implemented by proven sports professionals from the town – Tatiana Elenkova and Plamena Chuburova and after its completion, the benefits of such programs are going to be analysed, and according to the feedback from the participants, there is an urgent need for similar activities aimed at adults. The program was implemented within the framework of the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) project, co-funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the European union, which aims to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. The initiative is running simultaneously in five European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia. The Bulgarian partner of the initiative is the Bulgarian sports development association.
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26.08.2022
In the period 24-26 August, 2022, in the Klisura Monastery “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”, within a summer camp, organized by the Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity, the Sunday School at the Church of St. Martyr Paraskeva, Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD and Theater Company “Empty Space”, a children sports holiday was held, as part of the pilot activities under the HEPA SUN initiative. During the event, the children had the opportunity to learn about the innovative methods for a healthy and active lifestyle and the positive aspects of regular sports activities, with the aim of instilling a love of movement at a very young age.
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26.08.2022
In the period 25-26 August 2022, in Primorsko, Bulgaria, a children sports event was held within the "Sport for inclusion and inclusion for sport" project, which was attended by children and sports professionals from volleyball club "Ahil" Sofia. During the event, a children sports holiday "Youth sport day" was implemented, during which the Education through sport (ETS) methodology, which uses sport as a tool for social inclusion, social adaptation and socialization, was demonstrated. The sports day implemented sessions in which sport was used as an educational approach, addressing different topics such as developing tolerance, teamwork, work related to the elimination of prejudices and stereotypes and social inclusion of different social groups.
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25.08.2022
On 25.08.2022, in Primorsko, Bulgaria, a round table with the participation of coaches, teachers and specialists in physical education and sport was held. The event was implemented within the "We Shan’t TolerHate" (WSTH) project – a strategic partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies.
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25.08.2022
On the 25th of August 2022, in Primorsko, Bulgaria, a training course within the "Sport for inclusion and inclusion for sport" project was held which was attended by coaches, teachers and specialists in sport and physical activity. Sport for inclusion and inclusion for sport is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports. During the event the project, its aims and objectives as well as the Education through sport methodology were presented.
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24.08.2022
Expert training and InSport youth sports day were held in Klisura Monastery in the period 20-24.08.2022. Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport project is an initiative that involves 4 partners for 4 European countries – Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. This is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports.
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30.07.2022
On the 30th of July, 2022, in the Home for adults with intellectual disabilities in the town of Banya – Sonic Start, a focus group with users and educators of the social service was held, which aimed to understand the needs of individuals regarding sport and physical activity, and in particular – regarding the opportunities to practice table tennis. The game of table tennis is one of the most engaging activities for the brain and even older players can play table tennis recreationally. It is a fast moving, competitive activity which positively affects physical fitness levels, improves sustained attention and enhances the development of visuospatial skills. Due to these characteristics and the accessibility of the sport, it has been proved through research that table tennis can be effectively used as a prevention and rehabilitation program for people suffering or at risk to develop Alzheimer's and dementia since it activates up to five different sections of their brains simultaneously.
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27.07.2022
In the period 24–27 July 2022, an international training on the organization of sports events was held in Volos, Greece, as well as testing of an innovative mobile application in which teams from different countries can compete online within the framework of the "Multisport Community Experience' initiative. The five partner organizations are: Bulgarian sports development association (Bulgaria), Dubrovnik Sports Association (Croatia), European Platform for Sports Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany) and the University of Thessaly (Greece). Joanna Dochevska, Ivan Ivanov, Syuleiman Syuleiman, Vasil Metodiev and Yulian Andreev took part in the training.
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20.07.2022
On July 20, 2022, at the St. Kozma and Damyan Monastery, during a summer camp, organized by the Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity, the Sunday School at the Church of St. Martyr Paraskeva, Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD and Theater Company “Empty Space”, a children's sports holiday was held, as part of the pilot activities under the HEPA SUN initiative. During the event, the children had the opportunity to learn about the innovative methods for a healthy and active lifestyle and the positive aspects of regular sports activities, with the aim of instilling a love of movement at a very young age.
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19.07.2022
On July 19, 2022, in the Specialized Hospital for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation, Pernik, a training on physical activity in osteoporosis was held, in which the health specialists working in the medical facility participated. The event was held at the invitation of Emil Nenkov, manager of the specialized hospital, and after the current event, patients diagnosed with osteoporosis will have the opportunity to benefit from the program. Considering the needs to encourage osteopenic/osteoporotic patients to practice physical activity and to train health professionals on how to encourage them, the HAPPY BONES project aims to develop and promote an innovative exercise protocol for osteoporosis for osteopenic/osteoporotic, sedentary individuals aged 50-65 years, to engage them in moderate exercise and as a consequence, to increase their quality of life (physiologically and psychologically). In the period October 2021 – April 2022, a free Happy Bones therapy for women diagnosed with osteoporosis was held in Sofia, in which 24 ladies participated in. The program provided an opportunity to test in practice a protocol that ensures the quality physical activity for the target group.
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14.07.2022
In the period 12-14 July, 2022, in Mirandela, Portugal, an international meeting under the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) project was held. The project aims to encourage participation in sports and physical activity of seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. The meeting brought together representatives of 6 partner organizations from five European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia. The sports specialists Ivelina Kirilova, PhD and Joanna Dochevska took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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13.07.2022
In the period 11–13 July 2022, in Milan, Italy, the first international meeting of the "SCAED –Sport Community Against Eating Disorders" project was held, which was attended by coaches and experts from 6 partner organizations – Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, North Macedonia, Croatia and the hosts from Italy. During the meeting the following topics were discussed: the different challenges faced by athletes, parents, coaches and sports organizations related to eating disorders; defining the framework of cooperation among the project partners; the formal division of tasks and responsibilities in the project, as well as their implementation.
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10.07.2022
In the period 02.07.2022 – 10.07.2022 in Rajca, Poland, the CHEER youth exchange took place, which was attended by young people from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia. During the exchange, the participants prepared and presented a presentation on the mental health of young people in their countries (especially how the pandemic and current global events affect it). The participants also tested the CHEER cards, developed by the project team, which aim to improve the mental health of their peers regarding the challenges our society has been going through in recent years.
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08.07.2022
On 8th of July 2022 the European Commission has organized a stakeholders’ event aiming to analyse the EU4Health Programme 2021-2027 so far and to jointly plan the activities for 2023, which has been attended by Yoanna Dochevska, chairperson of Bulgarian Sports Development Association. EU4Health Programme has been adopted in March 2021 with EUR 5.3 billion during 2021-27, an unprecedented level of financial commitment for a Union investment in health. The EU4Health Programme is the Union’s response to the current public health emergency; it is expected to make a significant contribution to the post-COVID-19 recovery and aims to bring a contribution to the long-term health challenges by building stronger, more resilient and more accessible health systems.
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07.07.2022
SPRINT is the only specialized sports magazine in Bulgaria. It has been published since November 2016 in each quarter in a very impressive volume of 140–160 pages. The amazing collector's edition has a regular circulation of between 6000 and 8000 issues. Free applications are often published together with SPRINT – World Cup 2018, Champions League, Formula 1 ... And from the beginning of 2020, together with each issue, readers receive a separate book FUTURE – only for children and youth sports in Bulgaria. A special emphasis in the editorial policy is the serious attention paid to the sport for teenagers and its benefits. SPRINT contains only author’s materials, richly illustrated with own photos. The magazine satisfies the hunger of the real fan for intelligent and curious sports readings, comments, interviews, statistics, portraits, analyzes, photoshoots ... So far all of the biggest stars of Bulgarian sports have appeared on its pages and on the cover – Hristo Stoichkov, Dimitar Berbatov, Ivet Lalova, Grigor Dimitrov, Kubrat Pulev, the Golden Girls in Rhythmic Gymnastics, Yordan Yovchev, Dimitar Penev, Boyan Petrov, Alexandra Zhekova and others. SPRINT is a free territory for exchanging opinions on pressing issues, its pages are open to the best in Bulgarian (and world!) sports journalism.
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06.07.2022
On the 6th of July 2022, during a summer camp at the Sofia Seminary, a children's sports holiday was held, part of the pilot activities within the HEPA SUN initiative. During the event, children had the opportunity to learn about the innovative methods for a healthy and active lifestyle and the positive aspects of regulated sports activities, with the aim of instilling a love for movement at a very young age.
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04.07.2022
In the period 28.06 – 04.07.2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, a youth mobility under the "We Shan't Tolerate Hate" (WSTH) project, was held. The project is a strategic partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large. The surge in intolerance, stereotyping and discrimination against migrants and refugees represents one of the most glaring realities influencing political and civil society debate, particularly in the European polities most sensibly hit by the massive migrants and refugee flows from Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Eurostat quantifies in 164.300 the number of extra-EU nationals who sought asylum in the EU-28 during the third quarter of 2017. The meeting was attended by young people from each partner country – Bulgaria, Italy and Romania, as well as participants with migrant background form Algeria and Pakistan.
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01.07.2022
In the period 28.06.2022 – 01.07.2022, in Lisbon, Portugal the second international meeting under the SONKEI project was held. The meeting was attended by 8 partner organizations form 8 European countries – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Croatia. During the meeting, the partners had the opportunity to learn about the activities and facilities of the Ginásio Clube Português: GCP (Portuguese Sports Club), discussed the project activities so far, the upcoming final conference in Istanbul and worked on creating the practical educational tools for children and youth to raise awareness of violence in sport. Emiliya Tsanova, Diyan Atanasov and Syuleiman Syuleiman took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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23.06.2022
On the 23rd of June we celebrate the Olympic Day and the values of the Olympic Movement come alive. The International Olympic Day has been celebrated by a decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since January 1948. To mark the occasion, open training sessions were organised for the sports included in one of the most significant sports for the Olympic Movement – modern pentathlon. During the event, organized by the Bulgarian sports development association, Faculty of Sports – National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Bulgarian Modern Pentathlon Federation, hundreds of children and adolescents had the opportunity to try the sport introduced by the creator of the modern Olympic Games Pierre de Coubertin. His aim was to bring together in a common sport all the skills that the ideal nineteenth-century cavalryman had to possess – running, swimming, riding, shooting and duelling. The children were welcomed and greeted by prof. Krasimir Petkov, Dean of the Faculty of Sports, Kamelia Alexandrova, President of the Bulgarian Modern Pentathlon Federation and the students and coaches who underwent the EHPARP training course, who encouraged them to apply the Olympic values in their lives: friendship, respect, dignity, equality, determination, inspiration and courage.
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20.06.2022
In the period 12.06.2022 – 20.06.2022, in the town of Sassari, Italy, a youth mobility under the "We Shan’t TolerHate" (WSTH) project was held. This project is a strategic partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large. The surge in intolerance, stereotyping and discrimination against migrants and refugees represents one of the most glaring realities influencing political and civil society debate, particularly in the European polities most sensibly hit by the massive migrants and refugee flows from Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Eurostat quantifies in 164.300 the number of extra-EU nationals who sought asylum in the EU-28 during the third quarter of 2017. The meeting was attended by young people from each partner country – Bulgaria, Italy and Romania, as well as participants with migrant background form Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Russia.
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16.06.2022
An international Play’In Together conference on the power of sport was held in Leuven, Belgium from 13 to 16 June. Play’In Together relies on an innovative teaching method developed by PLAY International: Playdagogy. It aims at using sport games as an educational medium to treat sensitive topics otherwise. It allows children to learn and grow while playing and having fun. The final event brought together all European partners involved in the project, as well as sports professionals from all over Europe. The conference was also attended by Joanna Dochevska – Chairperson of Bulgarian sports development association, who presented part of the methodology in the aspect: Sports beyond disabilities.
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16.06.2022
On June 16, 2022, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", an innovative training for physical activity for people with osteoporosis was held, which brought together 35 sports professionals who after this event are going to have the opportunity to launch programs for people diagnosed with osteoporosis. Considering the needs to encourage osteopenic/osteoporotic patients to practice physical activity and to train health professionals on how to encourage them, the HAPPY BONES project aims to develop and promote an innovative exercise protocol for osteoporosis for osteopenic/osteoporotic, sedentary individuals aged 50-65 years, to engage them in moderate exercise and as a consequence, to increase their quality of life (physiologically and psychologically). In the period October 2021 – April 2022, a free Happy Bones therapy for women diagnosed with osteoporosis was held in Sofia, in which 24 ladies participated in. The program provided an opportunity to test in practice a protocol that ensures the quality physical activity for the target group.
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14.06.2022
In the period 13–14 June, 2022, in Palermo, Italy, an international meeting under the ONE GOAL project was held, which was attended by coaches and experts from 5 partner organizations – Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Uruguay and the hosts from Italy. Kornelia Naydenova, Zlatka Gaberova and Diyan Atanasov took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association, a partner in the project.
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11.06.2022
In the period 08–11 June 2022, in Athens, Greece the first meeting of the "WOMEN'S HURDLES" project was held. The project has the aim to develop and implement innovative practices related to the promotion of women's physical activity, especially of those in a dynamic family and work environment. The project objective is to promote and support EU strategies in the area of social inclusion and equal opportunities of women, which are based on physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. The duration of the project is 24 months and involves 6 partner organizations from 5 European countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Romania. Research and online activities have been carried out so far. By the end of the project, international and national training of sports specialists is forthcoming, within which the foundations of targeted activities regarding the inclusion of members of the fair sex in sports activities will be laid.
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09.06.2022
During the first days of June 2022, in Borovets, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a training course under the "Re (IN) novating Marketing Strategy Across Semi-professional Female Teams" (RINMSASFT)" project, which was attended by sports specialists and sports administrators. The training presented the project’s results so far, the training modules and a number of practical tasks in the field of marketing, communication, financial strategies and good practices for sustainability and funding in sports, platforms and strategies for fundraising, management, management of sporting events, digital skills needed by sports professionals and administrators in the dynamic 21st century. The discussed topics were focused on the needs to strengthen the competencies of the semi-professional women's sports team’s managers through a process of increasing the skills, knowledge and competencies related to marketing, communication and advertising strategies.
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08.06.2022
In the period 05–08 June 2022, in Palermo, Italy, a meeting under the #Train4Inclusive project was held, which brought together partners from Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain. #Train4Inclusive project aims to develop methodology and tools, which supporters and supervisors of sport activities for people with disabilities will be able to use in order to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social abilities. Within the project a handbook for sports coaches was developed. The international meeting was attended by Bulgarian experts Ivelina Dimitrova and Velina Toneva.
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08.06.2022
On June 8, 2022, in Borovets, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association, with the support of the Department of Weightlifting, Boxing, Fencing and Sports for All, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", conducted a training within the ENDURANCE project, which is implemented in partnership with 8 partners from 7 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Spain). During the training, topics such as project management, administration and reporting, guidelines and practical recommendations for the work of the online interactive training platform "ENDURANCE", practical tasks and forms of creating and administering business projects were discussed.
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08.06.2022
On June 8, 2022, in Borovets, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training, with the support of the Department of Weightlifting, Boxing, Fencing and Sports for All, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", within the "ORIENT – Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering” project which is implemented in partnership with 5 European countries and one country from the Western Balkans: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project aims to improve the social inclusion and to spread the information regarding the local realities in different countries, while promoting a sense of freedom and positive change at local level, encouraging the involvement of young people in outdoor activities based on orienteering. ORIENT addresses the priority “encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport” by developing a set of innovative outputs.
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07.06.2022
On June 7, 2022, in Borovets, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training with the support of the Department of Weightlifting, Boxing, Fencing and Sports for All, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski". The training was held within the “SONKEI – Respect in Sport, Respect in Life” project, which is implemented in partnership with 8 partner organizations from 8 European countries – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Croatia. The training discussed good practices and methods for tackling racism and violence in sport, various methodologies and practical educational tools for children and young people to raise awareness of violence in sport and promote EU values of respect, courage, gender equality and inclusion.
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04.06.2022
An international para-sport conference was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in the period 02.06-04.06, 2022, which aimed to discuss the challenges in the dual career of the European athletes with physical disabilities. The meeting brought together experts in the field of adapted physical activity and sports, para-athletes, as well as representatives of the European, Swedish, Greek, Serbian and Croatian Paralympic Committees. The international event was held within the PARAdig /Dual-Track Careers for Para-Athletes/ project. Within the initiative, an online platform was created to support the professional development and to lay the foundations for the business and entrepreneurial skills, adapted to the needs of people with physical disabilities, in order to provide them with full personal and professional development. Bulgaria is actively working within the initiative in cooperation with the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Bulgarian sports development association, which was presented at the conference by Joanna Dochevska (chairperson of BSDA), Assoc. Prof. Stefka Djobova, PhD and Ivelina Kirilova, PhD – world-renowned experts in the theory and practice of adapted sports. During the visit to Thessaloniki, a presentation of the "Adapted Sports and Inclusive Education" master's program of NSA "Vasil Levski" was organized.
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31.05.2022
In the period 29 – 31 May 2022, in Milan, Italy, the first meeting of the EntrepreNEETs initiative was held, which brought together the national coordinators from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Slovakia. Joanna Dochevska – Chairperson of BSDA, took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association. ЕntrepreNEETs is a strategic partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management, digital, and ICT skills.
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30.05.2022
Sofia Holy Metropolis – Kyustendil Spiritual District, with the support of the Municipality of Kyustendil, Regional Department of Education – Kyustendil, Regional Library "Emanuil Popdimitrov – Kyustendil", Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity, the Sunday School at the Church of St. Martyr Paraskeva, Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD, Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA), and Theater Company “Empty Space”, organized a CELEBRATION OF THE ORTHODOX SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS.
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30.05.2022
On the 20th and 30th of May 2022, in Sofia, with the help of the "Adapted physical activity and sports" sector at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", a dissemination events within the PARAdig /Dual-Track Careers for Para-Athletes/ project, were held. This project is a partnership between organizations with extensive experience in the field, including the European Paralympic Committee, the Ministry of Sport – Sweden, the Croatian Paralympic Committee.
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20.05.2022
In the period 15.05–20.05.2022, in Mexico City and in the city of Cuautla, Mexico, activities within the International Seminar for Joint Exchange of Experiences, which is a result of the activities carried out so far under the "Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability" (WAYWARD) project, were held.
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19.05.2022
On May 19, 2022, аn online meeting under the EHPARP project was held. During the meeting the completed and upcoming project activities, finished materials and the training platform of the project were discussed. Diyan Atanasov and Emilia Tsanova took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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18.05.2022
On May 18, 2022, an online meeting under the PROPELLERS project was held. During the meeting, partners from 6 European countries – Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Greece, Croatia and Spain discussed the implemented and the upcoming project activities. Diyan Atanasov and Emilia Tsanova took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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17.05.2022
On May 16 and 17, 2022, an international online meeting under the EWA – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs project was held. During the meeting, the following topics were discussed: the completed and upcoming project activities, the prepared training materials and the training course on the role of sports professionals in combating violence and discrimination against women in sport Diyan Atanasov and Emilia Tsanova took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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13.05.2022
EntrepreNEETs is a Small-Scale Partnership in the field of youth that aims to empower young female NEETs by providing them with entrepreneurial skills in the fields of social entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, project management and digital, and ICT skills. Therefore, it aims at combatting the following two aspects: the overrepresentation of women in the NEET category and their underrepresentation as entrepreneurs. The main strategy that is going to be implemented to accomplish this goal is to provide youth workers with tools based on non-formal education (NFE). Thus, the project will be the exchange of good practices, aimed at producing a toolkit that can be used across the EU in fostering entrepreneurship. It will do so by employing Entrepreneurship as a Competence framework (EntreComp), working on the 3 competencies it defines: ‘’ideas and opportunities’’, ‘’resources’’ and ‘’into action’’. The following EntreComp goals are in the scope of the project: ‘’I want to mobilize’’ and ‘’I want to create value’’. They will be accomplished by inspiring young female NEETs to pursue a career in the entrepreneurial world and by adapting it to their specific local context.
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10.05.2022
On 10.05.2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the fourth international meeting under the Pick4All – Pickleball is 100% inclusive sport project was held, within which the first pickleball tournament in our country was organized. During the event there was a demonstration held by sports specialists from the Spanish Pickleball Federation, as well as an amateur tournament, which was attended by children and young people from Sofia schools, as well as athletes in Adapted Basketball of NSA "Vasil Levski" and users of social services in the Home for adults with mental disabilities in the town of Banya – Sonic Start. The event was organized jointly by the two Bulgarian project partners – Bulgarian sports development association and Badminton Club RacketSpeed.
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10.05.2022
On the 9th and the 10th of May, 2022, in the city of Palermo, Sicily, a partnership meeting under the ORIENT project was held. The achieved results so far and the organization of future project activities were discussed. The consortium consists of 5 European countries and one of the Western Balkans: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kalinka Gudarovska, a Board member of the Bulgarian sports development association took part in the meeting.
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05.05.2022
On May 4, 2022, the town launched a four-month free physical activity program of adults, coordinated by the local partner of the project – the Health in the northwest association. The pilot sports program is coordinated by Health in the northwest association at local level and after its completion the benefits of such programs are going to be analyzed. At the beginning of the program, the exercises were presented by Ivelina Dimitrova – kinesitherapist and specialist in adapted physical activity and sport, who is also the creator of the corrective methodology Class4YourBack. The four-month pilot program is going to be implemented by proven sports professionals from the town – Tatiana Elenkova and Plamena Chuburova.
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03.05.2022
In the period 29.04–03.05.2022, a partnership meeting under the "DuMotion" project was held in the town of Dubrovnik. The meeting was attended by project partners and young people from Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and Croatia. During the meeting, the Dubrovnik tournament was held, which was attended by volunteers and students from the Vasil Dechev High school and the Olympic Hopes Sports School in Chepelare, led by the director of the sports school Mr. Radoslav Agovski. Ivaylo Zdravkov, a board member of BSDA, took part in the partnership meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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02.05.2022
Dubrovnik, May 2, 2022. - 240 volunteers trained to volunteer in sports competitions, participation of volunteers in more than 25 national and international sports events, a large survey of volunteering involving over 200 sports clubs, one million and two hundred thousand people reached, a handbook on volunteering in sports competitions covering all aspects of organization of a sport event - these are just some of the results of the 30 month EU project "Du Motion" presented today at the International Conference on Volunteering in Sports in Dubrovnik's Lazareti.
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29.04.2022
On April 29, 2022, in the sports hall of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Gurguliat building, a tournament for people with disabilities was held, which was organized by young sports experts from Bulgaria. Within the framework of the MOVING tournament, the methods developed within the framework of the mentioned initiative were tested and young people with intellectual disabilities took part in it.
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28.04.2022
In the period October 2021 – April 2022, a free Happy Bones therapy for women diagnosed with osteoporosis was held in Sofia. The therapy aimed to strengthen their general condition and improve their physical activity. More than 20 ladies from the capital joined the program, and due to the specifics of the period, some of them took part in person, and some of them joined online. The next planned activity within the initiative is a free training of 20 instructors under the "Happy Bones” program – physical activity for people with osteoporosis, which will take place on June 26, 2022. The registration is now available on the website of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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24.04.2022
In the period 20-24 April 2022, in Malatya, Turkey, an international meeting under the "Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport - InSport" project was held, which brought together partners from 4 European countries - Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports - Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner of the initiative from Bulgaria, was represented by Ivaylo Zdravkov, a board member of BSDA.
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20.04.2022
The project is a continuation of previous project finished with success “Academy of Youth Worker”, in which we prepared the program of working with Youth and establishing an NGO.
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16.04.2022
On April 16, 2022, in the town of Berkovitsa, a training event was held. During the event, health and sports experts from the town got acquainted with the specifics of physical activity for adults. The training was conducted within the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) project, co-funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the European union, which aims to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. The initiative is running simultaneously in five European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia. The Bulgarian partner of the initiative is the Bulgarian sports development association.
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15.04.2022
On the 15th of April, 2022, in Sofia, a dissemination event under the “Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD) project was held. Тhe capacity building initiative in the field of youth involves 7 partner organizations from Greece, Ireland, Italy, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Mexico and the Philippines with the overarching am of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with intellectual disability in partner countries through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology.
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14.04.2022
In the period 13–14.04.2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, dissemination events under the Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon – EHPARP project were held. More than 50 coaches, sports specialists and students from the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" took part in them. During the events, topics such as: characteristics and profiles of athletes in modern pentathlon; the potential of grassroots sports as a means of promoting the positive effect of physical activity on health and education; how sport can be used as a means of transmitting positive values of fair play; following the rules of the game; mutual respect; solidarity; honesty; discipline.
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14.04.2022
In the period 11–14 April 2022, in Plovdiv, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a practical football training as part of the „Football as a Seed for Gender Equality“ project. The objective of the project is to fight discrimination and gender inequality through sport. In order to achieve the project's objectives, Bulgarian sports development association organized a sports competition between boys and girls, who while playing and spending time together, faced the women’s participation in sports and learnt to see the differences between gender, culture and language as added value, not as obstacle.
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13.04.2022
In the period 12-13.04.2022, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Bulgarian sports development association held a number of dissemination events under the "Re (IN) novating Marketing Strategy Across Semi-professional Female Teams" (RINMSASFT) project, in which students, coaches and sports specialists took part. The event presented the achieved project results so far and discussed topics focused on the needs to strengthen the competences of managers of semi-professional female sport teams through an up-skill process related to marketing, communication and visibility strategies.
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12.04.2022
In the period 09–12 April 2022, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an international training of young sports experts from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Portugal was held, during which the methodology Education through sport was presented. The methodology is using non-formal educational methods in sports environment, which in this initiative are adapted to work with young people with intellectual disabilities. The meeting was attended by Joanna Dochevska, Teodor Petrov and Petar Shopov – representatives of the Bulgarian sports development association – a partner from Bulgaria. Within the framework of the MOVING project, a sports event will be organized to test the developed methods, in which young people with intellectual disabilities will take part. Each of the partner countries will organize at least one event.
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11.04.2022
On April 11, 2022, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Bulgarian sports development association held an event under the Balanced Living through Healthy Nutrition Habit project, which was attended by students, coaches and sports professionals. During the event the results achieved so far in the project were presented and topics focused on various aspects of the overall healthy lifestyle (sports, physical activity and healthy nutrition), appropriate methods and practices for non-formal education on the topic, as well as the effect of healthy nutrition on various educational and sports activities, were discussed.
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09.04.2022
An international meeting under the South-East European Youth Parasport Exchange –SEEYou project was held in Vienna, Austria on 07–09 April 2022, during which the partners discussed the sports camps for children with intellectual disabilities held in the partner countries, as well as the training of sports specialists working with them, organized so far. The forthcoming activities were also planned, including a sports camp and training of sports specialists in Milanovac, Serbia, which will take place in September 2022. Training and sports activities contribute to the development of sports for people with disabilities in partner countries – Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany. The meeting was attended by Stefka Djobova – a representative of the partner organization from Bulgaria – Bulgarian sports development association.
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07.04.2022
In the period 04–07 April 2022, an international meeting under the SONKEI project was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, which was attended by 8 partner organizations form 8 European countries – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Croatia. During the meeting the activities of the project so far were discussed, the partners presented good practices and tools for dealing with racism and violence in sports and worked on creating the practical educational tools for children and youth to raise awareness of violence in sport.
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06.04.2022
In the period 04.04. – 05.04.2022, in Mirandela, Portugal, a strategic partnership meeting under the #Sport&NFE project was held. All expected results of the project were discussed and planned, as well as a strategy for their dissemination during and after the end of the project.
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05.04.2022
On April 5, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, the first local sports event under the ONE GOAL project was held, which was attended by over 40 women sports coaches. During the event, theoretical and practical sessions were held in which topics such as: knowledge and qualifications about women's football; methods and practices for developing the skills of the women's football coaches; improving the physical and technical qualities of female football players; role models in women's football; psychological methods and techniques for working with adolescents, were discussed. The event was implemented with the support of the Football and Tennis Department at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and highly qualified and experienced football coaches, such as Assoc. Prof. Kornelia Naydenova – coach of the goalkeepers in the women's team of Bulgaria and NSA.
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04.04.2022
Eating Disorders have suffered a significant increase around the world over the past decades with statistical data provided by ANAD (USA National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders), suggesting that 9% of the population worldwide suffers some kind of ED. In the sport sector, prevalence of these issues is exceptionally worrying, as athletes are more prone to fixation for perfect physical appearance and performance. Even though professional athletes count with the help of nutritionist and psychologist to guide them in their journey, amateurs’ sport coaches do not have the necessary training and knowledge to identify risky behaviours and act upon them.
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04.04.2022
The Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of Murcia (Spain) is located in Mar Menor and works for the promotion of physical activity and sport in the society. This promotion is carried out showing the beneficial effects of regular physical activity on health, and with different sport management strategies, such as organizing sports events. The Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of Murcia has several years of experience organizing big sport events in the Region of Murcia. These sport events are always carried out thinking in social inclusion, and trying to use the potential of physical activity and sport to help people in risk of social exclusion.
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03.04.2022
In the period 28.03.2022 – 03.04.2022, in the town of Busteni, Romania, the first youth mobility under the "We Shan’t TolerHate" (WSTH) project was held. This project is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large. The surge in intolerance, stereotyping and discrimination against migrants and refugees represents one of the most glaring realities influencing political and civil society debate, particularly in the European polities most sensibly hit by the massive migrants and refugee flows from Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Eurostat quantifies in 164.300 the number of extra-EU nationals who sought asylum in the EU-28 during the third quarter of 2017. The meeting was attended by young people from each partner country (5 local and 5 of migrant/ethnic origin) from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Russia.
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01.04.2022
In the period 30.03 – 01.04.2022, in Katowice, Poland, the first meeting under the CHEER initiative was held. The project aims to improve the mental health of young people by stimulating their creativity and using their youthful enthusiasm. The crisis related to the coronavirus epidemic is having a negative impact on young people in Europe. The fight against the epidemic and the restrictions introduced weakened the mental condition of youth. Many of them feel that it intends to take from them their most precious time in their life – youth. As a result, young people experience many mental problems without institutional and social support. These problems have direct impact on their education and professional development. Moreover, at present we are unable to predict all the effects of the current state in the future. It is certain, however, that it will be a negative experience for an entire generation that needs support and renewed energy to overcome difficulties. The group that also experiences many problems in the above context are youth workers, who face problems with their mental state, but also with the lack of appropriate educational tools and skills.
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01.04.2022
On the 1st of April, 2022, a dissemination event under the “Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD) project was held. Тhe capacity building initiative in the field of youth involves 7 partner organizations from Greece, Ireland, Italy, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Mexico and the Philippines with the overarching am of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with intellectual disability in partner countries through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology.
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01.04.2022
A dissemination event under the PARAdig /Dual-Track Careers for Para-Athletes/ project was held, on the 1st of April 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria. This project is a partnership between organizations with extensive experience in the field, including the European Paralympic Committee, the Ministry of Sport – Sweden, the Croatian Paralympic Committee. ParaDig lays the foundations for the business and entrepreneurial skills, adapted to the needs of people with physical disabilities, in order to provide them with full personal and professional development. Bulgaria is actively working within the initiative in cooperation with the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Bulgarian sports development association. The event attracted young sports professionals who got acquainted with the project and its results, as well as athletes with disabilities, who enjoyed a wonderful sports holiday, implemented by experts from the Adapted physical activity and sports sector.
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31.03.2022
The new 28th issue of SPRINT – the sports magazine of Bulgaria, arrives with all its glory. 132 luxury pages plus 32 pages with free application, which contains 26 handbooks for organization and methodology, freely available by scanning a QR code, developed for 11 years by the Bulgarian sports development asso-ciation. Look for SPRINT from Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at the usual locations – the gas stations "Lu-koil", "Shell", "Eco", "Rompetrol" and "Nispetrol", the hypermarkets "Fantastico" and "Kaufland", the stores "Inmedio", as well as in the better locations for distributing magazines and newspapers all over the country.
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27.03.2022
The final conference of the Eco-friendly Sports project was held on March 27, 2022 in Ankara, Turkey. The implemented activities and the results of the project were presented and discussed at the conference. The conference was attended by local organizations, whose activities are closely related to the topic of the project. Visually impaired people, that are part of the mentioned organizations and practice cycling, accompanied by a partner on a tandem bicycle as an eco-friendly and inclusive sport, were also invited to the event.
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25.03.2022
On 25.03.2022 an online meeting under the “Re(IN)novating Marketing Strategy Across Semi-professional Female Teams” (RINMSASFT) project, which aims at strengthening competences of managers of semi-professional female sport teams through an up-skill process related to marketing, communication and visibility strategies.
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21.03.2022
Every year on March 21st we celebrate the International Day of People with Down Syndrome, and in 2022 the adapted basketball team of the NSA "Vasil Levski" joined the initiative. Adapted Basketball at NSA "Vasil Levski" for two years now conducts regular activities for young people with intellectual disabilities thanks to the excellent cooperation and work in the name of the common goal of the Department of Water Sports, Sector "Adapted Physical Activity and Sports" and Department of Basketball, with the support of the Bulgarian Sports Development Association and many volunteers. The special athletes on the team, as well as their partners, took part in the celebration by wearing colorful socks, which show that the world is colorful and different, as we all are.
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20.03.2022
In the period 18th -20th of March 2022, in Klisura Monastery "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" was held a presentation of the HEPA SUN project, organized in partnership with the leadership of the monastery in the face of Archimandrite Father Antim. The presentation was attended by educators and specialists working with children from NSA "Vasil Levski", Sunday school at the church "Nativity of Christ" Mladost 3, Sunday school at the church "St. Mtsa Paraskeva", Str. G.S. Rakovski, Carolina Holistic Center, National Academy of Theater and Film Arts "Krastyo Sarafov", 105 Sofia School "Atanas Dalchev", BG and Sports for All, Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergies and COPD (ABBA), Independent Theater Company Empty Space and the Bulgarian Sports Development Association. During the event the upcoming activities were presented for training of teachers working in the field of preschool education and a pilot program that will cover 100 children in Bulgaria and will introduce them to the positive aspects of regular sports activities in order to instill a love for movement at a very early age.
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19.03.2022
A meeting with non-governmental organizations was held on March 19th, 2022, at the Klisura Monastery "St. St. Cyril and Methodius", during which the project “Structured Learning for Awareness in Media” was presented. The project explores the similarities, differences and potential synthesis among the different yet interrelated challenges faced by Western Balkans countries and Europe within a transnational effort aimed at laying the grounds of a greater media literacy and critical thinking at the level of the youth and, by extension, of society as a means to provide an antidote against phenomena of hate speech and a building block of successful integration processes.
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18.03.2022
On March 18, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, another practical futsal training was held, as part of the Football as a seed for gender equality project. The objective of the project is to fight discrimination and gender inequality through sport (specifically football). In order to achieve the goals of the project, the Bulgarian sports development association organized a sports competition between boys and girls, that are part of “Ahil” Sports Club, Sofia, who played sports and spend time together, faced the participation of women in sports and learned to consider gender, culture and language differences as an added value, not as an obstacle.
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10.03.2022
On March 10, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, a practical futsal training was held, as part of the Football as a seed for gender equality project. The objective of the project is to fight discrimination and gender inequality through sport (specifically football). In order to achieve the project's objectives, Bulgarian sports development association organized a sports competition between boys and girls, who played sports and spend time together, faced the participation of women in sports and learned to consider gender, culture and language differences as an added value, not as an obstacle.
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28.02.2022
On February 28, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event with representatives of sports organizations, which included topics such as: exclusion from education of adults with disabilities; methods of social inclusion and integration; access to education and training – both in formal and non-formal sectors, for adults with disabilities; how sport can become an engine for further education and active participation in society.
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24.02.2022
In the period 20-24 February 2022, in Montevideo, Uruguay the second international meeting under the ONE GOAL project was held. The training was attended by coaches and experts from 5 partner organizations – Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Uruguay and Hungary. Ivaylo Zdravkov, Kornelia Naydenova and Zlatka Hristova took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner in the project. During the meeting, the participants were part of the preparation and the implementation of a women's football tournament, attended a football match of the Uruguayan Beach Soccer Championship and discussed topics related to the necessary knowledge and qualifications about women's football, methods and practices for developing the skills of the women's football coaches, improving the physical and technical qualities of female football players and the role models in women's football.
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15.02.2022
On February 15, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event, with representatives of sports organizations, including topics such as "Organizational management and corporate social responsibility in sports", "European policies in the field of sports", "Promotion of good governance and applying its principles in sport" within the GOSport project. The event was attended by representatives of state institutions, federations and associations, which received a free copy of a manual, designed for professionals working in large and small sports organizations, as managers of corporate social responsibility.
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11.02.2022
On 11.02.2022 a meeting of the Public Council on youth issues to the Minister of youth and sport was held.
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11.02.2022
In the period 07-11.02.2022 during Erasmus+ mobility of academic staff, Stefka Djobova, PhD and Ivelina Kirilova, PhD, included in the educational programme with the students form sports faculty of Haaga-Helia University (https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/about-haaga-helia) – Finland, campus Vierumäki the materials and practices, developed in the framework of Play’In Together project.
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10.02.2022
Dubrovnik, Feb 10, 2022. – DU MOTION Project team members held its fifth transnational project meeting hosted by Mine Vaganti on February 3rd and 4th in the Italian city of Sassari.
DU MOTION is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and supported by the Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs which gathers 7 Partners from 7 countries, i.e. Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Turkey.
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03.02.2022
On 02.02.2022 the third international meeting under the Pick4all project was held in Milan, Italy. The results achieved so far and the organization of future project activities were discussed. Within the meeting, two pickleball trainings were held: one with students from a local school and one with physical education teachers. The meeting was attended by representatives of the two Bulgarian organizations that are part of the project – Bulgarian sports development association and Badminton Club RacketSpeed. A pickleball event is going to be organized in May 2022 as part of the project activities.
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03.02.2022
On February 3, 2022, an online meeting under the "EWA – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs" project was held. During the meeting the prepared training materials of the project /Handbook "Strategies and tools for empowerment of athletes" /; the future strategy for dissemination of the intellectual outputs; the current status and good practices in combating violence against athletes; the training course on the role of sports professionals in combating violence and discrimination against women in sport were discussed.
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30.01.2022
In the period 28-30 January 2022, in Budapest, Hungary, an international meeting under the ONE GOAL project was held, which was attended by coaches and experts from 5 partner organizations – Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Uruguay and the hosts from Hungary. Ivaylo Zdravkov, Kornelia Naydenova, Zlatka Hristova and Diyan Atanasov took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association, a partner in the project. During the meeting the following topics were discussed: knowledge and qualifications about women's football, methods and practices for developing the skills of the women's football coaches, improving the physical and technical qualities of female football players, role models in women's football, psychological methods and techniques for working with adolescents.
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30.01.2022
An international meeting, hosted by the Serbian Paralympic Committee, was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 27 to 30 January 2022, bringing together partners of the international initiative aimed at offering tools to boost entrepreneurship among athletes with disabilities. The online platform, created within the PARAdig /Dual-Track Careers for Para-Athletes/ project, in partnership between organizations with extensive experience in the field, including the European Paralympic Committee, the Ministry of Sport – Sweden, the Croatian Paralympic Committee, lays the foundations for the business and entrepreneurial skills, adapted to the needs of people with physical disabilities, in order to provide them with full personal and professional development. Bulgaria is actively working within the initiative in cooperation with the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Bulgarian sports development association, which was represented at the meeting by Joanna Dochevska (Chairperson of BSDA) and Assoc. Prof. Stefka Djobova, PhD – a world-renowned expert in the theory and practice of adapted sports.
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24.01.2022
In the period 21-24 January 2022, an international seminar was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was attended by young people and experts from the 7 partner organizations in an initiative to inform young people about the reliability of information. The participants in the event were both from the EU and from countries in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey, which since 2019 are implementing the Structured Learning for Awareness in Media project. Joanna Dochevska, Emilia Tsanova, Diyan Atanasov and Syuleyman Syuleyman took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association, a partner in the project from Bulgaria.
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23.01.2022
On January 23, 2022 during the Sunday school at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, Sofia, a workshop with young people aged between 9 and 16 was held. The discussed topics were: What are the fake news?; Where and how to get the best information?; What can we do in order to combat the fake news in our daily lives?; How to check if the news are fake or not? Kliment Hristov, PhD, who is a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Sofia University “St. St. Kliment Ohridski” had a special part during the workshop as a lecturer.
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23.01.2022
On January 23, 2022 during the Sunday school at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, a training was conducted with the help of the 20 metaphorical cards "Tolerance", created under the “On the way to acceptance – a non-formal Youth program of innovative tools to learn” project. The participants were young people aged between 9 and 16. They had fun and at the same time learned a lot about each other, which contributed to their inclusion as a team.
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22.01.2022
On January 22, 2022, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event under the GOSport project, that included topics such as “organizational management and corporate social responsibility in sports”, “European sports policies”, “the promotion of good governance and the application of the principles of good governance in sport”. The event was attended by representatives of sports clubs, NGOs, federations and associations. Each participant received a free copy of a handbook, designed for professionals working in large and small sports organizations, such as corporate social responsibility managers, administrative and technical staff or coaches.
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08.01.2022
On January 8, 2022, in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event under the GOSport project, with sports experts, that included topics such as “organizational management and corporate social responsibility in sports”, “European sports policies”, “the promotion of good governance and the application of the principles of good governance in sport”. The event was attended by representatives of sports clubs, NGOs, federations and associations. Each participant received a free copy of a handbook, designed for professionals working in large and small sports organizations, such as corporate social responsibility managers, administrative and technical staff or coaches.
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30.12.2021
Dubrovnik, December 27, 2021. - “This is a great way to meet new people, have fun and learn something new. The feeling of contributing to the community and doing something really useful is very fulfilling.” - These are some of the impressions of volunteers who in recent months have been involved in the European project of education of volunteersin the organization of sport events called “DU MOTION“, carried out by 7 partner organizations. After completing the theoretical part, volunteers from 6 partner countries (excluding Belgium) have their participation in sports events of both national and international character.
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28.12.2021
Volunteers from 6 European countries are already applying the acquired knowledge at local and international sports competitions.
The most important phase of the European project of educating volunteers in organization of sport events, led by Dubrovnik Sports Association, has been successfully completed. Representatives of six partner countries have held a series of lectures in recent months through which as many as 240 volunteers from Croatia, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Turkey were introduced to all aspects of the organization of sport events, from logistics and sports field management to competition and a very current topic of impact of COVID-19 on sport events.
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23.12.2021
The Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering – ORIENT project (622532-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-SPO-SCP), promotes the involvement of young people in outdoor activities based on orienteering. ORIENT addresses the priority “encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport” by developing a set of innovative outputs.
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19.12.2021
The final partnership meeting under the Let’s include /Leveraging Education Through Sport for INnovative Changes Leading to Unification of Disability and Education – Let's Include/ project was held on 19 December 2021 in Sassari, Italy. Let’s include is a small collaborative partnership in the field of sport aimed to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities of disabled persons. The meeting was attended by partners from 4 countries, who discussed in detail the achieved goals and results, resolved, the difficulties and challenges, the implemented good practices and the future joint activities and initiatives.
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16.12.2021
Hike Together project is focused on encouraging people to practice hiking and walking in nature, as they are a basic to many sporting activities, well-being and fitness. This initiative contributes to raising awareness of the importance of health benefits of physical activity through walking in nature – as a natural exercise through increased participation in hiking and trekking. The partner countries are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia and Italy.
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16.12.2021
An international congress “Europe is Moving” was held on Wednesday, 15 December at the headquarters of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid.
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15.12.2021
In the period 13–15 December 2021, in Belgrade, Serbia, an international meeting under the HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) project was held. The overall objective of this project is to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions – back pain, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. The meeting gathered representatives of 6 partner organizations from five European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia. On behalf of Bulgarian sports development association representatives were the sports specialists Ivelina Kirilova, PhD and Mariana Borukova, PhD.
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12.12.2021
The crisis related to the coronavirus epidemic is having a negative impact on young people in Europe. The fight against the epidemic and the restrictions introduced weakened the mental condition of youth. Many of them feel that it intends to take from them their most precious time in their life – youth. As a result, young people experience many mental problems without institutional and social support. These problems have direct impact on their education and professional development. Moreover, at present we are unable to predict all the effects of the current state in the future. It is certain, however, that it will be a negative experience for an entire generation that needs support and renewed energy to overcome difficulties. The group that also experiences many problems in the above context are youth workers, who face problems with their mental state, but also with the lack of appropriate educational tools and skills.
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11.12.2021
In the period 07.12.–11.12.2021. on the Reunion island, France, the final meeting of the "MiSport – integration of migrants through sport" project was held, during which the results of the project activities were discussed. The partners also met with local stakeholders to learn about the results achieved and visited a sports school that has very good experience in working with migrants.
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11.12.2021
In the period 10–11 December 2021, Madrid hosted an international meeting and the first national pickleball event. Pickleball is a new, innovative sport that gives everyone a chance, regardless of age, gender, religion, ethnicity or physical activity. It is a combination of several sports – tennis, badminton and table tennis, making it an ideal tool for integration and fun.
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10.12.2021
In the period 08–11 December 2021 in Milan a meeting under the collaborative partnership “Multisport Community Experience” was held. The five partner organizations are: Bulgarian Sports Development Association (Bulgaria), Dubrovnik Sports Association (Croatia), European Platform for Sport Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and University of Thessaly (Greece).
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10.12.2021
In the period 08–11 December 2021 in Ljubljana, Slovenia the second international meeting under the SONKEI project was held. The meeting was attended by 8 partner organizations form 8 European countries – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Croatia. During the meeting the activities of the project so far were discussed, the partners presented good practices and tools for dealing with racism and violence in sports and worked on creating the practical educational tools for children and youth to raise awareness of violence in sport. Diyan Atanasov, Emiliya Tsanova and Syuleiman Syuleiman took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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10.12.2021
On the 10th of the December, in Milan, 20 organizations gathered for the first edition of an event dedicated to sharing, design and creativity. Partners from Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Romania all participated in the meeting. The event took place in the PlayMore sport center with all the required COVID-19 measures. A full day activity, the partners dedicated their time in order to work on the designing of the new Cooperation Partnerships in the field of SPORT. One of the goals of this December gathering was to create a draft of new projects and to strengthen the, or form new, network. Presentation of organizations were made and everyone got to know each other in a very friendly, cozy and, of course, Christmassy environment.
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06.12.2021
The final conference of the project "Active in Sport Again!" co-financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Union and the Office for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Government of the Republic of Croatia was held in Zagreb.
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04.12.2021
In the period 02.12. – 04.12.2021. in the city of Karasu, Turkey, a final meeting under the Let’s swim beyond the handicaps project was held. Each partner country presented the activities carried out within the project at local level. The meeting was also attended by children with physical disabilities from Turkey, who took part in the sessions on adapted swimming, and each of them shared their impressions and emotions.
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04.12.2021
In the period 01–04 December 2021, in Rijeka, Croatia, a midterm meeting under the #Train4Inclusive project was held, which brought together partners from Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain. #Train4Inclusive project aims to develop methodology and tools, which supporters and supervisors of sport activities for people with disabilities will be able to use in order to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social abilities. Within the project a handbook for sports coaches was developed, and the international meeting was attended by Bulgarian experts in the field of adaptive sports Assoc. Prof. Stefka Djobova and Assoc. Prof. Velichka Alexandrova.
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02.12.2021
A meeting of the European Commission and the responsible for sport policies at European level took place on 2 December 2021 to discuss the next steps in the new Erasmus+ activities aimed at the mobility of sports staff. The regulation establishing Erasmus+ programme 2021-2027 provides a framework for setting up a Key Action 1 mobility action in the field of sport.
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02.12.2021
Bulgarian sports development association held a National Conference under the IAM (Promoting Integrity Against Match-fixing through education among young athletes) project. The main idea of the conference was to show how sport can contribute to the fight against illegal betting (black lotto), in order to maintain transparency, fair play and respect at the earliest level of sporting activity. The challenges generated by the manipulation of sporting events require strong cooperation at European and international level in order to protect the future of sport, as well as its ethics and integrity.
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02.12.2021
SPRINT is the only specialized sports magazine in Bulgaria. It has been published since November 2016 in each quarter in a very impressive volume of 140–160 pages. The amazing collector's edition has a regular circulation of between 6,000 and 8,000 issues.
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01.12.2021
Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training course under the GoSport project, that included topics such as "organizational governance and corporate social responsibility in sport", "European policies in the field of sport", "promotion of the good governance and applying its principles in sport". The event was attended by 10 representatives of sports clubs, NGOs, federations and associations, each of whom received a free copy of a handbook designed for professionals working in large and small sports organizations, such as corporate social responsibility managers, administrative and technical staff or coaches /Awareness raising & training toolkit for non-profit / community (multi) sports clubs and sports academies/.
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30.11.2021
On 30.11.2021 a workshop with youth workers under the Structured Learning for Awareness in Media – SLAM project was held, which aims at enhancing young people’s awareness and critical thinking on the role of Mass Media as a challenge and precondition for more inclusive societies towards migrants and refugees. The youth workers took part in a workshop on “What is fake news and how to deal with it in our daily lives?”.
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30.11.2021
On 30.11.2021 an event for representatives of sports clubs, sports associations, youth workers, teachers and NGO representatives under the Eco-friendly Sports project was held in Sofia in order to present the results of the research and events organized within the project. Good practices and new methods that could be used in future were shared and discussed.
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28.11.2021
Bulgarian sports development association held a dissemination event including sports games and physical activity, part of the Education through sport methodology, within the ETS for youth equality (EYE) project. The event was attended by over 40 coaches, volunteers, teachers and students from the Adapted Physical Activity and Sport Sector at the Faculty of Public Health, Health Care and Tourism at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", representatives of sports clubs, NGOs, federations and associations. The athletes from the adapted basketball team of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" also took part in the event, by conducting and demonstrating a general preparatory training and a basketball match.
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09.11.2021
A training course under the Enhancing Health and Physical Activity Rates through Pentathlon (EHPARP) project was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was attended by coaches from all disciplines that compose the modern pentathlon – fencing, shooting, swimming, running (athletics) and equestrian sports. EHPARP project aims at employing Pentathlon as a tool of promoting health-enhancing physical activity among the European youth and adult populations as well as providing dual career opportunities to Athletes in the individual disciplines forming part of Pentathlon practice who will be empowered as Coaches/Trainers in their disciplines and in comprehensive programmes of Pentathlon.
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08.11.2021
In the period 05-08 November 2021, in Niksic, Montenegro a partnership meeting of the 7 partner organizations, both from and outside EU – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey was held. Since 2019, the partners are implementing the Structured Learning for Awareness in Media project. Joanna Dochevska and Syuleiman Syuleiman took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association – the Bulgarian partner of the project.
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08.11.2021
In the period 07-08.11.2021 in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece an international meeting under the MiSport project was held. During the meeting, the partners discussed the activities, implemented so far, for the integration of refugees through sport in each of the partner countries and the planned future activities. Velina Toneva and Elena Dimitrova took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association – the Bulgarian partner of the project.
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06.11.2021
In the period 03 – 06 November 2021, in Rijeka, Croatia an international sports event was held, which was attended by young people with physical disabilities from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Croatia. As part of the project, in September 2021, 8 free trainings for young people were held, in which 6 young people with physical disabilities and 6 without disabilities aged 12-16 took part. Part of the participants in these trainings took part in the international event.
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27.10.2021
In the period 20.10.-27.10.2021 an international youth exchange YOU and the Mount has been implemented in Lozen, Sofia. The event gathered together participants from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Poland. "You And the Mount /YATM/" is a youth exchange which aim is to show the relationship between the people and the mountain. With the project, we encouraged young people to continue to look for sustainable tourism and sport, we showed them that unwise behavior in the mountain sometimes leads to serious consequences.
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26.10.2021
In the period 24-26 October 2021, in Bari, Italy, an international training was held, which aimed to introduce basketball coaches, working with age groups 10-16 years, to the possible traumatic conditions that they may encounter during training, and to the actions they need to take in order to prevent future ones.
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22.10.2021
On 22.10.2021 an online meeting under the “Working to Approach Youth Workers as Agents of a Response to Disability” (WAYWARD) project was held. The initiative involves 7 partner organizations from Greece, Ireland, Italy, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Mexico and the Philippines with the overarching am of empowering personal development, overcoming of stereotypes and social inclusion of young people (age 18-25) with intellectual disability in partner countries through the empowerment of youth workers and NGOs in terms of understanding and methodological toolset based on the ETS (Education Through Sport) methodology.
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20.10.2021
World Osteoporosis Day is celebrated on October 20 since 1996 as an initiative of the British National Osteoporosis Society with the support of the European Commission. Since 1997, the day has been organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation. The purpose of the day is to raise public awareness about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. The motto of the day for 2021 is: "Let's take care of the health of our bones".
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19.10.2021
In the period 18-19.10.2021, in Sofia, Bulgaria the second partnership meeting under the “Europe is moving” project was held. The project is implemented jointly by partner organizations from Bulgaria, Spain and Slovenia. The project aims to encourage the media to participate more actively and effectively in promoting social inclusion and equal opportunities through sports practice and physical activity.
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14.10.2021
In the period 11-14 October 2021, in Sofia, Bulgaria an international meeting within the "Sport for inclusion and inclusion for sport" project was held, which brought together partners from 4 European countries - Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. Sports for inclusion and inclusion for Sport is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports - Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner of the initiative from Bulgaria, was represented by Ivaylo Zdravkov, a board member of BSDA.
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13.10.2021
On October 13, 2021, a focus group under the “EWA – Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs” project was held at the National Sports Academy. The event focused on how sport can be used as a means of self-expression and realization, citizenship and solidarity, and the challenges of violence and discrimination against women, which is still a barrier to the more serious presence of women in our sports clubs. These barriers operate on multiple levels (verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, cultural, organizational, economic, mediatial, etc.) and are collectively perceived as an overarching chauvinistic culture that permeates every female athlete's career.
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10.10.2021
In the period 07-10 October 2021 in Amandola, Italy an international meeting under the Hike Together project was held, which was attended by the project partners from Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and Croatia. During the meeting, the partners visited the Grotte di Frasassi Cave, the Temple del Valadier and hiked in the Monti Sibillini National Park. On October 9, during the conference, the partner organizations presented the most popular hike routes in their countries. The conference was also attended by the Mayor of Amandola - Adolfo Marinangeli.
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09.10.2021
Coaching workshop is the one of the main activities within the "South-East European Youth Para-Sport Exchange: SEEYou" project. The aim of the coaching workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge in the field of sports for persons with disabilities (primary swimming) among the primary target assembly of sports coaches, coaches, sports instructors and sports experts. The main organizers of the workshops were para-sport organizations from Croatia (Croatian Paralympic Committee and Rijeka Sport Association for persons with disabilities), Serbia (Paralympic Committee of Serbia) and Greece (Hellenic Paralympic Committee).
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06.10.2021
On 05.10.2021 in 131. SS "Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev" in Mladost, Sofia, during a class with one of the 7th grades, a lecture was held on the topic "Bees and their vital function for the existence of life on Earth". The eco-event started with an energizer in order to promote physical activity among young people and ended with the installation of 3 hotels for bees and insects in the school yard. The students were very happy with what was happening and expressed the opinion that it was very inspiring for them in the future.
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02.10.2021
The aim of the „LET’S SWIM BEYOND THE HANDICAPS“ project is to include physical disabled kids in social life, to improve quality of their lives, to give them the opportunity to have fun during physical activity and sports with their peers, to make them discover their skills, and to create a different environment where they can feel free to do exercise. The consortium includes partner organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Turkey.
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30.09.2021
On September 26, 2021 in the city of Sofia during the Sunday school at the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the residential area Mladost, Sofia, flowering shrubs were planted in order to ennoble the area around the church. This eco-initiative was co-financed by the Eco-friendly Sports project.
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30.09.2021
In the period September 23-30, 2021, a youth exchange Structured Learning for Awareness in Media was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which 5 young people from Bulgaria took part. The project includes 7 partner organizations, both from and outside EU - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
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30.09.2021
In the period 28.09.-30.09.2021 in the city of Naples, Italy an international meeting of the MiSport project was held. During the first working day, the consortium discussed the selected good practices for the inclusion of refugees in each of the partner countries. The second day of the meeting started with an international conference on the topic, which was attended by local stakeholders, who introduced the project participants to the refugee situation at the local level and ways to deal with and integrate refugees. The working day continued with a training visit of the Napoli United team, where refugees train alongside local youth. Their head coach is the son of the legend Diego Armando Maradona - Diego Armando Maradona Sinagra.
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25.09.2021
On September 25, 2021, in the “Madara” pool of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" #Train4Inclusive event in adapted swimming was held, which was attended by athletes with intellectual disabilities. #Train4Inclusive is implemented by an international consortium including representatives of Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain and aims to develop a methodology and tools that sports coaches and managers of sports activities for people with disabilities will be able to use to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social skills. The swimming event included 50m adapted swimming with a partner, as well as water fun for the participants, who were divided into two age groups - under and over 17 years.
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24.09.2021
On September 24, 2021, a #BeInclusive Shared Experience event in the field of adapted sports was held at the National Sports Academy - Gurguliat building, in which various practices were presented, including: Adapted basketball in NSA, Parakids Sports Practices, FAFA -Balkans and Black Sea region, sports club "Wonders" and the social enterprise "Little house", wheelchair basketball or how sport gives a second chance to return to the game of life, sports practices in adapted martial arts and those for adults, adapted water sports and adapted physical activity for breast cancer patients, the challenge of Special Olympics "FitFive", Hippotherapy, as well as initiatives supported by the Erasmus+ program #Train4Inclusive, #Let's Include, #Play'In Together - Playdagodgy, GoSport, EWA, Active in Sport again.
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21.09.2021
In the period 18-19 September 2021, in the town of Chepelare was held a training of young people in the field of volunteering during sporting events, implemented by the Bulgarian sports development association under the Du Motion project, which aims to train volunteers how to organize national and international sports competitions. The initiative conducts similar trainings in Croatia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Turkey, and after the educational activities a stage of practical training for young people during national and international sports competitions is forthcoming. Five young people who have successfully completed their practice will have the opportunity to participate as volunteers in an international marathon in Croatia in the spring of 2022. The event brought together students from the Secondary School "Vasil Dechev" and the Sports School "Olympic Hopes" and was held thanks to the professional hosting and organization of the director Radoslav Agovski.
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17.09.2021
In the period 14-17 September 2021, an international meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina was held, which brought together the partner organizations from eight European countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. SONKEI project seeks to prevent violence and intolerance in sport through education and promotion of European values of respect, courage, gender equality, inclusion and non-violence. The project intends to change the mindsets of people and initiate social change that will provide safer environment for everyone. During the meeting, an international conference was held with the participation of local sports experts, who together with international participants discussed and analyzed violence in sport and the approaches with which it could be prevented. Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner of the initiative from Bulgaria, was represented by Joanna Dochevska - Chairperson of the organization.
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16.09.2021
In the period 13-15 September 2021, in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, an international training under the "AQUA PRIMORJE" project was held, co-financed by the Erasmus+ program.
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15.09.2021
On September 15, 2021, Bulgarian sports development association took part in an international online partnership meeting under the ENDURANCE project, which brings together eight partners from seven countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Spain). The discussion among the partners covered topics such as project management, administration and reporting, guidelines and practical recommendations for updating the status of the online project platform, ensuring, monitoring and evaluating the quality of the intellectual outputs, as well as issues related to dissemination and vision of the project goals and objectives.
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13.09.2021
In the period 08.09.-10.09.2021 in the city of Lisbon, Portugal a partnership meeting under the Eco-friendly Sports project was held. The activities carried out so far by the partner organizations were presented at the meeting, as well as the future activities of the project were discussed.
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13.09.2021
In the period 01-06 September 2021, in Madrid, Spain, the first meeting under the "Pick4all" project was held. The project aims to develop and implement innovative practices related to promoting physical activity of people who, due to their age or health condition, don’t have many alternatives for practicing sports.
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04.09.2021
In the period 01-08 September 2021, in Castel Volturno, Italy, a mobility under the “Football as a Seed for Gender Equality” project is being held. The objective of the project is to fight discrimination and gender inequality through sport. In order to achieve the project's objectives, associations from Austria, Bulgaria and Italy are organizing a sports competition between 12 football teams mixed both from gender and nationality.
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01.09.2021
In the period 30-31 August 2021, in Sofia a partnership training on "Collaborate to Innovate: Boosting Innovation in Elite and Grassroots Sport in Europe" was held, which was implemented under a project of the Ministry of Youth and Sports under the Erasmus + program of the European Union. The event is initiated by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Maria Gabriel and is implemented in partnership with the Ministries of Sport of Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, the Netherlands and Slovenia.
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01.09.2021
On August 31, 2021 in Primorsko, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association held a training under the "Eco friendly sport" project, organized in partnership with the management of the Ahil Volleyball Club, Sofia. The event was attended by over 40 children and young people who participated in educational and sports activities focused on various aspects of the overall healthy lifestyle (sports, physical activity and healthy nutrition).
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30.08.2021
In the period 29-30 August 2021, in Primorsko, Bulgaria, a training for coaches, under the IAM project, was held in order to promote integrity to combat match-fixing through training of young athletes - a priority of the Erasmus+ Sport program. The core idea of our project is to fight this international contemporary threat facing sport through education among young athletes in order to preserve transparency, fair-play and respect for others at the earliest level of sport activity. The challenges posed by the manipulation of matches need today a strong cooperation at European and international level in order to protect the future of sport as well as its ethics and integrity.
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29.08.2021
On August 29, 2021, Bulgarian sports development association held a promotional event under the "Exercise as a mean to prevent and recover the chronic diseases - PREVENT” project in the Home for adults with mental disabilities in the town of Banya, Karlovo, during which the residents of the institution were acquainted with the current trends for information, prevention and health care within the PREVENT project.
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25.08.2021
On August 14, 2021 at the German Monastery St. Ivan Rilski, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training under the "BeRURALactive - Multisport complex in rural reality to empower physical activity motivation" project, organized in partnership with the management of the monastery, Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, Sofia and the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA).
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25.08.2021
On August 14, 2021 at the German Monastery St. Ivan Rilski, Bulgarian sports development association conducted a training under the "Eco friendly sport" project, organized in partnership with the management of the monastery, Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, Sofia and the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA).
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24.08.2021
In the period 14.08.2021 – 21.08.2021 an international training course Art of creative thinking ACT has been implemented in Sofia. The event gathered together participants from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Slovakia, working with and for the young people in their countries. Art of creative thinking ACT is mobility for youth workers, co-financed on the program Erasmus+ of the European Union (training course), which will work for acquiring one of the most valuable skills of the future – the creative thinking and how it appears and develops in the young people, as it is one of the new skills, which employers search for and it is hard to acquires through the formal education system.
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13.08.2021
The first meeting of the project "On the Way to Acceptance" was held in Lodz, Poland, on 12.08.2021. The partners from Poland, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey came together to discuss the project and the steps that need to be taken in order to successfully implement the project ideas, presented in detail by the coordinators. The initiative is co-financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Union and will implement activities in the period 30.06.2021 - 29.06.2023.
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09.08.2021
In the period 05.08.-08.08.2021, in Sofia, the third transnational project meeting under the Hike Together project was held. The aim was to organize and conduct a hike with local volunteers to Cherni Vrah (Black Peak) –2290 m. This initiative contributes to raising awareness of the importance of health benefits of physical activity through walking in nature – as a natural exercise through increased participation in hiking and trekking.
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05.08.2021
In the period 26.07.2021 – 02.08.2021, in Sassari, Italy, a training course Structured Learning for Awareness in Media/SLAM was held, which aimed at enhancing young people’s awareness and critical thinking on the role of Mass Media as a challenge and precondition for more inclusive societies towards migrants and refugees. The training was attended by four representatives from each partner country – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
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02.08.2021
In the period 18-24 July 2021, at the "St. Kozma and Damyan” Monastery, Bulgarian Sports Development Association implemented a training under the "Balanced Living through Healthy Nutrition Habit" project, organized in partnership with the leadership of the monastery, Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, Sofia, the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA).
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30.07.2021
Bulgarian sports development association is partner in the On the way to acceptance – a non-formal Youth program of innovative tools to learn project. The initiative is co-funded under the Erasmus+ program of the European Union and is going to implement activities in the period 30.06.2021 - 29.06.2023.
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30.07.2021
WHEN: 20.10.2021 – 27.10.2021
WHERE: Lozen, Bulgaria
ABOUT THE PROJECT: You and the Mount (YATM) is an ErasmusPlus co-funded youth exchange that aims to show what is the relation between the people and the mountain. The project will encourage young people to support sustainable tourism and sport and to reveal them that unwise behaviour in the mountain sometimes leads to serious consequences.
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24.07.2021
In the period July 17-24, 2021 an online training course was held on the project „Happy Bones“. The meeting was attended by Mustafa Altunsoy from Gazi University (Turkey), Prof. Massimo Saketi from Foro Italico University (Italy), Prof. D.p.s. Drossescu Paula from Iasi University (Romania), dr. Mariana Brocateli, dr. Simona De Belonia, as well as selected sports specialists for work with people suffering from osteopenia/osteoporosis. The partners from the project, together with the selected sports specialists, discussed different methods, practices and potentialities for specific physical activity suitable for people with osteoporosis. Specific activities in the project were also discussed, the achievements achieved so far, as well as the future steps, which need to be done for its successful completion.
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23.07.2021
On 18.07.2021 at the "St. Kozma and Damyan” Monastery, during the first day of the children's camp, organized by the Sunday School at the “Nativity of Christ" Temple, Sofia, Mladost 3, together with the Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA) an eco-trail hike was organized, as part of the Hike Together project. The project aims to promote mountain walks as a method of physical activity that increases participation in physical exercises.
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20.07.2021
A multisport complex aiming to stimulate sports in small towns in Europe is going to be developed within the "BeRURALactive – Multisport complex in rural reality to empower physical activity motivation" project, which involves organizations from Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovenia.
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20.07.2021
On July 20, 2021, an international meeting under the “MOVING” project was held in Sofia, during which the partners from 4 countries – Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered to discuss and communicate the development of the “MOVING” project.
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11.07.2021
In the period 07-10 July 2021, in Rijeka, Croatia, an international training was held, which aimed to introduce basketball coaches, working with age groups 10-16 years, to the possible traumatic conditions that they may encounter during training, and to the actions they need to take in order to prevent future ones.
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07.07.2021
On 07.07.2021, an online meeting of the "We Shan’t TolerHate" (WSTH) project consortium was held. This project is a 24-month strategic partnership, focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large, which brought together project partners from Bulgaria, Romania and Italy.
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05.07.2021
“Eco friendly sport” event was held on 05.07.2021 in Klisura Monastery “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”, organized in partnership by the leadership of the monastery Abbess Mother Taisiya, Archimandrite Antim, Sunday School at the Church of the Nativity in Mladost 3, Sofia, the Association of Bulgarians with Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA) and the Bulgarian Sports Development Association. Two of the events developed during the project were held: Greenhouse effect workshop and Water bottle session. Discussions on the topics were held with the children, and the described sessions were adapted for a large group of children.
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03.07.2021
In the period June 30 to July 3, 2021, in Athens, Greece the first international meeting of “LET’S SWIM BEYOND THE HANDICAPS” project was held. The aim of the project is to include physical disabled kids in social life, to improve quality of their lives, to give them the opportunity to have fun during physical activity and sports with their peers, to make them discover their skills, and to create a different environment where they can feel free to do exercise. The consortium includes partner organizations from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
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01.07.2021
The international meeting for the project Propellers was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 30th of June. Partners from 6 European countries, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Spain, gathered together in order to open up the second “Professional and Personal Experience through Lifelong Learning and Regular Sport” – Propellers, meeting with aim to discuss the project activities and updates.
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30.06.2021
From the 27th – 29th of June, the partners from 6 European countries, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Germany, Spain, gathered together in Sofia, Bulgaria, in order to open the kick-off meeting for the project ’’Sport and Non formal education – The pathway to community development.
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28.06.2021
In the period 25-27 June 2021, an international seminar for coaches and judges in artistic swimming was held in Sofia, during which the aspects of prevention and traumatology and theoretical and practical characteristics of choreography in age groups U12 and 13-15 were discussed.
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21.06.2021
In the period of 17th and 19th of June, 2021, the first offline meeting for the project #HIKETOGETHER was held in Rijeka, Croatia. Project Hike together contributes to raising awareness of the importance of health benefits of physical activity through walking in nature as a natural exercise through increased participation in hiking and trekking.
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05.06.2021
On June 5, 2021, in Sofia, Bulgaria, a final international meeting was held under the "Winter Sport is Coming" project, which aimed to promote winter sports not only as physical activity, but also as educational tool to support social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and European citizenship among young people from different backgrounds by development and implementation of “Winter Sports Program”.
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22.05.2021
On May 22, 2021 at the National Sports Academy “Vasil Levski” athletics tournament “New Stars” was held. The 43rd edition of the international tournament included in its program a 100-meter inclusive start, which was attended by 14 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
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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.
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19.05.2021
Today, May 19, 2021, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association, together with the Association of Bulgarians Suffering from Allergic and Lung Diseases /ABBA/ and the kind support and hosting of the Municipality of Burgas, organized a promotional event for the project "Exercise as a means of prevention and recovery from chronic diseases"/ PREVENT.
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19.05.2021
On May 19th, 2021, in the sports hall "Boycho Branzov", in the city of Burgas, a meeting with the sports clubs from the city was organized. During this meeting, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association presented the new aspects of the Erasmus + Sport program and examples of successfully implemented projects such as the Active in Sport Again initiative, with the kind support and hospitality of the Municipality of Burgas.
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26.04.2021
Erasmus accreditation is a tool for organisations in adult education, vocational education and training (VET), and school education that want to open up to cross-border exchange and cooperation. Award of the Erasmus accreditation confirms that the applicant has set up a plan to implement high quality mobility activities as part of a wider effort to develop their organisation. Accredited Erasmus organisations will gain simplified access to Key Action 1 funding opportunities under the future Programme (2021-2027).
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22.04.2021
European Commission has released its Final report regarding Mapping of innovative practices in the EU to promote sport outside of traditional structures. The aim of the present study is to provide a wider understanding of how sport practice is evolving in nowadays society and how the sport movement is adapting to this evolution.
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10.04.2021
On April 10, 2021, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" – Gurguliat building, in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures, a dissemination event was held under the "WINTER SPORT IS COMING” project. The event was attended by sports specialists in adapted physical activity and sports, representatives of sports organizations, as well as young people with and without disabilities (physical and intellectual). During the activities the sports curling and floor hockey were presented, which are part of the spectrum of winter sports and the participants had the opportunity to get to know them in detail and enjoy them. The event was organized by the Bulgarian sports development association and the Adapted Physical Activity and Sport Sector of the NSA "Vasil Levski".
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25.02.2021
On Thursday February 25th, L’Orma hosted the online Kick off Meeting of the big collaborative partnership ‘Multisport Community Experience’. The 5 partner organizations (hereby presented in alphabetical order) are: Bulgarian Sports Development Association (Bulgaria), Dubrovnik Sports Association (Croatia), European Platform for Sport Innovation (Belgium), NGO Nest Berlin (Germany), and University of Thessaly (Greece). All representatives present at the meeting showed great enthusiasm to begin working on such innovative and ambitious project.
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24.02.2021
Sport For a Better World is a project that promotes innovative cooperation between NGOs, universities and public bodies in the sport sector across Europe. The programme is based on multidisciplinary training modules mixing formal and non-formal learning methodologies and digital resources. Parallel running sessions will introduce participant’s development theory, practice and philosophy, sport management and strategic skills, and develop managerial skills through a mentoring and coaching scheme matching people and professionals in practice based learning activities. Over the course of 24 months, NGOs and public bodies from TR and EU Programme countries join efforts to 80 people and practitioners to the real-world sport sector by developing coaching and training skills.
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23.02.2021
Bulgarian sport development association (BSDA) is a project partner in “An educational and training program for older adults at risk of developing dementia through table tennis”. The duration of the project is 24 months, and it involves 10 partner organizations from six European countries - Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Turkey.
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18.02.2021
“Learning through mobility of sports’ volunteers” (MOVING) is a Small Collaborative Partnership in the field of Sport aiming to support the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of nonprofit sport organisations. The target group will be people aged 18+ interested in volunteering to explore the possibility of a career in sport as well as to further strengthen their competencies. The project seeks to answer the priority European policy challenge of supporting volunteering in the field of Sport as a vehicle of employability, economic growth and social engagement. The partnership represents 4 countries (5 partners) at the bottom of the chart for volunteering in sports in Europe, with stable trends in the period 2013-2018 – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Portugal.
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18.02.2021
The overall objective of this project is to encourage participation in recreational physical activity for seniors (persons age 65+) in project partner countries by developing new recreational sport programmes suited for 3 types of most common health conditions (back pain, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis) thereby supporting the implementation of the EU Physical Activity Guidelines. The duration of the project is 24 months, and it involves 6 partner organizations from five European countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Serbia.
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15.02.2021
SONKEI seeks to prevent violence and intolerance in sport through education and promotion of values of respect, courage, gender equality, inclusion and non-violence. The project intends to change the mindsets of people and initiate social change that will provide safer environment for everyone. The duration of the project is 24 months, and it involves 8 partner organizations from eight European countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey.
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15.02.2021
In the period 09.02.2021 – 14.02.2021 in Borovets, Bulgaria, in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures, an event that introduced winter sports and their benefits was held as part of the "WINTER SPORT IS COMING" project. 15 young people took part in the event and had the opportunity to get acquainted with the magic of snow sports (skiing, snowboarding, sledding), combined with the non-formal education (energizers, discussions, team building activities). The focus of the program was the encouragement of the attitudes and motivation of young people to participate in winter sports and at the same time to explore the educational dimension of winter sports, such as:
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07.02.2021
On February 7, 2021 in Sofia, Bulgaria, in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures, a volleyball event was held, during which was presented an online training platform for volunteers, created within the framework of the ESVOL project, co-funded by the Erasmus + program of the European Union. The educational platform is free and covers various aspects of volunteering in sports, emphasizing the social aspects, and is suitable for sports volunteers, youth and youth workers with an interest in sporting events, sports coaches, sports experts.
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04.02.2021
On 4th of February 2021 the kick off meeting of Train4Inclusive project has been implemented by project consortium and has included the representatives of Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain. #Train4Inclusive project aims to develop methodology and tools, which supporters and supervisors of sport activities for people with disabilities will be able to use in order to monitor the progress of their physical, cognitive and social abilities.
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02.02.2021
Sports Inclusion and Inclusion for Sport is a project that seeks to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport through improvement of skills of coaches, trainers and other staff of organizations active in the fields of sport, youth work and social care and activities related to the social inclusion through sports. The duration of the project is 24 months, and it involves 5 partner organizations from four European countries - Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey.
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28.01.2021
There is a little known sport in Europe but it has many followers in other continents (America, Asia), which is probably one of the most inclusive in the world. It is a racket sport born in the United States in 1965 and is called pickle ball. This sport can be played by children, adult men and women, elderly people and people with intellectual and or development disabilities.
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22.01.2021
ORIENT will promote the involvement of young people in outdoor activities based on orienteering. ORIENT addresses the priority “encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport” by developing a set of innovative outputs in order to:
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14.01.2021
The objective of the project "Football as a seed for gender equality" is to fight discrimination and gender inequality through sport. Although sport is a phenomenon that involves both men and women, it is characterized by profound gender differences: men participate more in sport than women. In particular, women's participation is very low in sports such as football, which in the collective imagination is considered a "male sport" and not suitable for women. The lower participation of women is a consequence of gender roles imposed by the society which inevitably influence the desires, interests and aspirations of boys and girls.
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11.01.2021
Empowerment Through Sports is a project which aims to use sports as a tool and educate the young in human rights, the essence of tolerance and collaboration.
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07.01.2021
The objective of the “Sports, health and fun for preschool children / SUN” project is to contribute to awareness raising of the need for physical activity as basis of healthy lifestyle by changing habits of identified target groups (preschool children and their families) both in urban and rural areas. The projects goal is to stimulate children, in the first place those with obesity, overweight and low physical activity, and their parents to embrace this new kind of lifestyle as a routine, and then transfer the acquired healthy habits in later age. Children, engaged in sports activities at very young age are more likely to remain active later in life and are less likely to become obese or suffer from linked chronical diseases. The duration of the project is 24 months and the initiative is involving 7 partner organizations from 6 European countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia.
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06.01.2021
The project “Sport for Every Child: Fit Kids” encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities. The main goal of this project is to develop a modular based Physical Education methodology of sport activities, sport games and exercising for children and youngsters with mental and developmental disorders, illnesses and disabilities, we will focus on the groups that have to overcome most obstacles in doing sports activities, sport games and exercising, such as (ADHD, Bipolar, Anxiety, Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders, Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Autism and Low Cognitive Ability). Modular approach to fit the needs of individual disorder. It will be structured for the use of teachers and also for parents of children with mental disorders.
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06.01.2021
The project has the aim to develop, implement and transfer innovative practices related to physical activity in a high-risk and usually hard to reach population: women, especially those with family and working loads. The “WOMEN’S HURDLES” project objective is to promote and support EU strategies in the area of social inclusion and equal opportunities, encouraging participation in sport and physical activity (supporting the implementation of EU Physical Activity Guidelines). The collaborative partnership involves various organisations and actors in and outside sport (research and preventive institution, sports association, scientific associations, social association). This project has been inspired by this recommendation about the lifestyle interventions.
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29.12.2020
Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs.
Sport is a means of self-expression and fulfilment, as well as a force for citizenship and solidarity, while stressing how violence against women, stereotyping, differences in payment and barriers to women’s involvement in management are still problems tackling the sport sector. Those barriers act on multiple levels (verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, cultural, organisational, economic, mediatic, ecc.) and are collectively perceived as a pervasive chauvinist culture that permeates the career of any female athlete.
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18.12.2020
On December 18, 2020, in the renovated pool "Madara" of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" was held a control training in adapted swimming, which included 12 athletes with intellectual disabilities. The sports activity was held in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures, and the public and persons under 18 years of age were not allowed. The training was organized by experts in the sector of "Adapted Physical Activity and Sports" at NSA "Vasil Levski" and the Bulgarian Sports Development Association.
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16.12.2020
"SPORT & NFE - A pathway to community development" is a project that seeks to identify and overcome obstacles and challenges related to e stagnating tendency of lack of participation in, equal access to sport for all, as well about the stagnating interest in the importance of health-enhancing physical activity in Europe. The duration of the project is 24 months, and it involves 7 partner organizations from six European countries - Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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11.12.2020
“Multisport community experience” is a social-innovation sport project based on collective “movement” competition. The duration of the project is a 36 months with a consortium of 6 partners from 6 different countries – Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Croatia. This project aims at activating a new user experience, new sense of belonging, new emotions, new relationship and healthy competition and a compelling motivation for a physically active and healthy living. The game is based on competing communities. Each community has a team of 500 participants who track their physical activity. A system collects all data and update the real time cumulative “Healthy Index” at city level and compares it with the value of the other competing community.
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03.12.2020
On December 3, 2020, in the renovated sports hall in the building "Gurguliat" of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" was held a sports training, in which people with and without disabilities celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in an active environment.
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30.11.2020
Nov 30, 2020 - Representatives of seven countries gathered in the European project "Du Motion" held the third transnational working meeting of the project team on Monday. Originally scheduled in Warsaw, the meeting was again held online due to known pandemic circumstances.
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20.09.2020
In the period 31/08 - 06/09/2020, a camp for adapted water sports was held at VSUB Nessebar, which aimed to promote activities in the field of adaptation of water sports for people with different types of disabilities and special needs. The main sports in which the participants are involved are sailing, kayaking and swimming, and in addition all participants had fun practicing the modern paddleboarding, as well as a hike activities within the project #HikeTogether.
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18.08.2020
Sport is the most popular recreational activity, for centuries being an important element of society. Entrepreneurship has also been embedded in societies for ages, helping people to grow socially and economically. Europe is investing heavily in Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to sustain economic growth and social inclusion. The EU also recognizes the need to reinvent how entrepreneurship is identified, taught and nurtured. Links between sports & entrepreneurship are manifold, yet seldom recognized and rarely capitalized upon. The two are rarely found together in VET as effectively connected domains with synergic links: hence the need for much-needed entrepreneurial competences due to low EE in sports-oriented disciplines and lack of tailored entrepreneurship training.
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18.07.2020
On 18th of July 2020, in northern Uganda in Gulu city, small sub-county called (Aswa) in Uganda and in Ogun state, Nigeria was implemented a #HikeTogether event. The event was organized by Rubangakene Quido, program manager of International Movement for African Children /IMAC/. Project “Hike together” contributes to raising awareness of the importance of health benefits of physical activity through walking in nature – as a natural exercise through increased participation in hiking and trekking. Project “Hike together” is focused on young people from disadvantage background, to promote hiking and walking in the nature is a basic to many sporting activities, wellbeing and fitness. Hike together encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport.
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06.07.2020
In the period 04-05 of July 2020, #BeActive weekend was held at the Monastery "St. Kozma and Damyan”, organized in partnership with the Sunday School at the “Nativity of Christ" Temple, Sofia, Mladost 3, the Association of Bulgarians suffering from asthma (ABBA), Class4YourBack and the Bulgarian sports development association.
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02.07.2020
"We Shan’t TolerHate" (WSTH) is a Strategic Partnership lasting 24 months focused on promoting youth volunteering as an instrument to contrast discrimination against migrants and refugees among the youth categories and within the hosting societies at large. The surge in intolerance, stereotyping and discrimination against migrants and refugees represents one of the most glaring realities influencing political and civil society debate, particularly in the European polities most sensibly hit by the massive migrants and refugee flows from Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Eurostat quantifies in 164.300 the number of extra-EU nationals who sought asylum in the EU-28 during the third quarter of 2017.
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01.07.2020
In June 2020 in Ravda, Bulgaria was implemented a dissemination event of #HEPOSI project that introduced kids and youngsters about the positive aspects of healthy lifestyle, combined with #BeActive activities. Through interactive and non-formal activities, the kids were able to enjoy physical activity and to be aware of the healthy life habits.
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17.06.2020
The Hike Together project contributes to raising awareness of the importance of the health benefits of physical activity through hike in the nature - as a natural exercise through increased participation in tourism and hiking. The Hike Together project focuses on disadvantaged young people, and the promotion of tourism and walks in the nature is key to many sports, well-being and fitness. Hike Together Project promotes social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport.
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26.05.2020
The development of tourism and mountain sports is becoming more and more popular. The name "You And the Mount /YATM/" was chosen because we want to show what the relationship between the people and the mountain is. With the project, we encourage young people to continue to look for sustainable tourism and sport, yet we want to show them that unwise behaviour in the mountain sometimes leads to serious consequences. By gathering young people, we aim to teach them basic skills that are essential for practicing tourism and sports in the mountains. They will advance skills that will be useful not only in the mountains, but also in their everyday lives. Through all the activities we have planned, they will be taken out of a comfort zone, they will have to solve cases they would encounter in the mountains, but these skills would also be useful in their everyday lives.
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01.03.2020
On March 1, 2020, a #DancingWithHealth national event under the "Dance with Health" project was held in Sofia, bringing together dance instructors, trained to use dance therapy for women diagnosed with breast cancer and practitioners in their groups in Sofia and Dobrich. During the event the participants practiced together the dances involved in the therapy - Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha-cha, Rumba and Tango. The organizers from the Bulgarian sports development association hope that there will be an opportunity for a new dance therapy groups for women with breast cancer in 2020, in order to ensure an active and fulfilling life for more and more Bulgarians.
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20.02.2020
Prevent project was presented at a regular meeting of the Health Commission to the 44th National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, which was held on February 20, 2020 as part of the National Information Campaign "Together for Better Pulmonary Health". The event was attended by members of the parliament, members of the commission and Diana Hadzhiangelova, chairwoman of ABBA - Association of Bulgarians suffering from asthma, allergies and COPD, Associate Prof. Khodzhev, chairman of the Bulgarian Association for Pulmonary Diseases (BAPD) and Associate Prof. Dr. Maria Staevska, MD Head of the Department of Respiratory Allergy and Atopy at Alexandrovska University Hospital, who presented statistics on chronic diseases.
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06.02.2020
As laid down by the European Sports Charter Sport must be:
• Accessible to everybody;
• Available for children and young people in particular;
• Healthy and safe, fair and tolerant, building on high ethical values;
• Capable of fostering personal self-fulfilment at all levels;
• Respectful of the environment;
• Protective of human dignity;
• Against any kind of exploitation of those engaged in sport.
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22.01.2020
Art of creative thinking /ACT/ is a Mobility of youth workers (TC) that will deal with one of the most valued skills of the future-creative thinking and how it is born and developed in the young people as this is one of the new skills employers are looking for and it is hardly created by the formal educational system.
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08.01.2020
There are an estimated 80 million people with a disability in Europe, equivalent to approx. 15% of the EU population. Sport is recognized as a tool to promote the social inclusion of people with a disability.
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06.01.2020
Being an elite athlete is a privilege and a great obligation. During an athlete’s sporting carrier the main benchmark are the achieved results, which are the main motivational engine due to the interconnectedness with the income as well as the interest of clubs and sponsors. Within day-to-day trainings and competitions they develop skills to overcome various problems, develop working habits, strengthen and build self-confidence and the character.
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23.12.2019
On a daily basis we can see and live through our personal, social and professional ambits all the issues that are happening within our society: discrimination, racism, illness (physical and mental), poverty, financial problems at families, barrier to access work. Sport is a discipline, it is connected to all ambits and sectors (health -physical, mental and emotional-, social inclusion, education, tourism, politics, business and sustainability). This fact reflects that Sport is a very powerful "tool", if well used, to fight the issue that our societies are facing and help people to live a better life.
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19.12.2019
In the period 12.12.2019 - 19.12.2019, ETS for Youth Equality training was held in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, which was attended by 5 youth workers, sports coaches and trainers from Bulgaria, Italy and Ireland.
ETS for Youth Equality (EYE) is a 24-month strategic partnership in the field of youth addressing a group of young people who are affected by or deal with disability or impairment issues, aimed to create new educational opportunities and innovative approaches for the personal fulfilment of disadvantaged young people in Europe using the methodology of Education Through Sport (ETS).
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28.11.2019
"Integr-Action Through ETS" (IATETS) is a 24-month strategic partnership aimed at creating new opportunities of education and personal fulfilment for disadvantaged European adults affected by disability through delivering on educational formats and methods of customized learning based on Education Through Sport (ETS).
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19.11.2019
In the period 11 – 19 of November 2019 in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, an youth exchange on healthy lifestyle involving young people Bulgaria, Italy, Paraguay and Peru in the frame of "HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement" (HEPOSI) project, co-funded by ErasmusPlus Programme of the European Union. During seven days, the participants worked on creating a “Healthy Sensitive Youth” manual, outlining the methods used in project activities and focusing on the healthy lifestyle of young people from participating countries. During the mobility, participants had the opportunity to visit local educational centres and the event were visited by representatives of local authorities and non-governmental organizations that presented and discussed together challenges and their possible solutions.
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13.11.2019
In the period 13-14 of November 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria was held Peer Learning Event ‘Good governance in the context of major sport event’s lifecycle: from bidding procedure to legacy’, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and under the EU Work Plan for Sport 2017-2020.
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09.11.2019
The general aim of our project is to plan special basketball training for children aged between 10 and 16 years old. The power and agility developed with plyometric training from an early age should be supported by special preparatory training. These exercises should support the muscles most commonly used in splash-based sports, the ties required for a good balance, and the joints with more mobility. In addition to power, all the related joints, muscles and ligaments should gain a high level of flexibility. In time, the risk of disability will decrease in strengthening and stretching parts. Of course, young athletes' desire to gain success in a short time or the success of the coaches should be slowed down. Young athletes should not be expelled from high-level competitions without their biological age and without being fully prepared physiologically. Especially coaches working in the 10-16 age range are required to receive special sports health training in the branch. This training is vitally important for athletes' health.
The specific objective of the action is to share the best practice practices for basketball and protect athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions.
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09.11.2019
“Re(IN)novating Marketing Strategy Across Semi-professional Female Teams” (RINMSASFT) aims at strengthening competences of managers of semi-professional female sport teams through an up-skill process related to marketing, communication and visibility strategies.
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06.11.2019
In the period November 4-7, 2019, in Samokov, Bulgaria, a seminar of the Association of Balkan Athletics Federations was held, which aims to empower and motivate more and more women to take leadership positions in sports. The event was opened by Dobromir Karamarinov, President of Bulgarian Athletic Federation and Balkan athletics Federation, First Vice President of European Athletics and World Athletics council member.
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03.11.2019
- Physical activity in women in menopause: a collaborative partnership for active lifestyles for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis / HAPPY BONES
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01.11.2019
Let’s include / Leveraging Education Through Sport for INnovative Changes Leading to Unification of Disability and Education - Let's Include/ project is a small collaborative partnership in the field of sport aimed to encourage social inclusion and equal opportunities of disabled persons. Particularly, the project goal is to showcase talents and challenge stereotypes about disability in different contexts and mostly outside sport organisations, such as schools, NGOs and local communities.
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29.10.2019
According to the results of the latest Eurobarometer survey on sport and physical activity, almost half of respondents (46%) never exercise or play sport and the number of Europeans who never exercise or play sport has increased from 42% to 46%, and this is a continuation of a gradual trend since 2009. Northern Europe is more physically active than the South and East. In particular Austria 40%, Bulgaria 68%, Italy 62% and Croatia 56%. 15% of Europeans do not walk for 10 minutes at a time at all in a weekly period, and 12% sit for more than 8.5 hours per day. Hiking is a physical activity increasing participation in physical exercise by several reasons: it can be done whole year around, it does not require special skills, facilities or expensive equipment, it has health benefits and low risk of injury and walking itself is physical activity to begin and maintain as a past of physically active lifestyle. Hiking offers many health benefits like controlled obesity, gives a cardio workout (stronger workout by using poles) or cardiovascular activity that increase heart rate and fasten breathing by inhaling fresh air, hiking on uneven terrain works muscles while improving balance and stability and increases the amount of energy your body uses by 28% compared to walking on flat ground, 90-minute hike in nature has dramatic effect on the brain and the way we feel. Just one hour of hiking can burn well over 500 calories. Hiking itself is promoting social inclusion by not giving barriers to participation in the physical activity. Participating in hiking, joining mountian clubs or groups are examples of ways in which young people can participate in their community, learn new skills, and socialize beyond their family boundaries.
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22.10.2019
- Background:
It's inevitable that we have to do something about climate change. Not only reduce, reuse and recycle, but we can actively contribute to protect our planet and take direct action. Pollution is enormous problem and lack of recycling is even bigger challenge. Therefore, in the last years, there were new types of activities developed and promoted in order to tackle both – lack of physical movement of people, but also increasing pollution of our nature, beaches, forests...
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21.10.2019
“Professional and Personal Experience through Lifelong Learning and Regular Sport” (PROPELLERS) involves 8 partner organizations from 6 countries of the European Union (Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Spain) aimed at promoting voluntary participation in Sport activities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activities in accordance with the holistic model of health among the general EU population, with a particular focus on disadvantaged categories (NEETs, people with disabilities).
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04.10.2019
For athletes in EU member states is still a vivid challenge to combine their sports training, events and competitions with their need to receive an adequate education with a view to developing a sports career-end strategy for their subsequent employment, something informed by the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes. With the greater focus on inclusion of people with a disability to take up sports (originally inspired by the hard-won success of the Paralympics) and the improvements to accessibility and the design of sports facilities, there are ever greater numbers of people with disabilities taking up sports, and becoming great athletes in the field. These athletes face the same problem of timetabling their dual pursuits, but they have several additional obstacles to deal with (expand), in the process of training and in the process of getting prepared for employment. We believe that a new generation of “hybrid” mentor/trainers needs to be invested in, as part of the vision described under the Disability Strategy to Europe 2020.
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03.10.2019
The promotion of integrity against match fixing is the main objective of IAM / Promoting Integrity Against Match-fixing through education among young athletes/ and a specific priority of Erasmus+ Sport programme. The core idea of our project is to fight this international contemporary threat facing sport through education among young athletes in order to preserve transparency, fair-play and respect for others at the earliest level of sport activity. The challenges posed by the manipulation of matches need today a strong cooperation at European and international level in order to protect the future of sport as well as its ethics and integrity.
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02.10.2019
The sport sector is able to mobilise more volunteers than any other sector. Volunteers are fundamental to the success of international and domestic sport events. Sport event organisers rely on the knowledge, skills and experiences of volunteers to run events. The scale of volunteer involvement in sports events is significant, creating the potential for a wide range of economic, social, cultural and community benefits. In most Member States, the sport movement would not exist without volunteering.
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02.09.2019
“Structured Learning for Awareness in Media” (SLAM) aims at enhancing young people’s awareness and critical thinking on the role of Mass Media as a challenge and precondition for more inclusive societies towards migrants and refugees.
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30.08.2019
Budapest is the European Capital of Sport in 2019. S-Y-IN is a project to be implemented in three sectors: sport, education and youth work. Sport has a central social role in our days. Sport is competition but also a field of learning social skills. Sport can be a tool for positive social change, but can also be a dangerous tool of social and political manipulation. For this we must bring the attention of people to the positive social potentials of sport. As in the EU White Paper on Sport, sport has a very strong social role through which in formal and non-formal education, it reinforces Europe's human capital. The values conveyed through sport help develop knowledge, motivation, skills and readiness for personal effort. Time spent in sport activities at levels of formal education produces health and education benefits which need to be enhanced.
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22.07.2019
Between July 20-21, 2019, #BeActive weekend was held at the Monastery "St. Kozma and Damyan”, organized in partnership with the Sunday School at the “Nativity of Christ" Temple, Sofia, Mladost 3, the Association of Bulgarians suffering from asthma(ABBA) and the Bulgarian sports development association. Sport activities and interactive children's workshops were held as part of the HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement (HEPOSI) project, which provides collaboration between NGOs from Europe and Latin America to address the challenge of promoting healthy physical activity and food consumption practices among young people through non-formal education. The activities were part of the second children's summer camp at the monastery, following the successful first edition in 2018. Over 25 children had the opportunity to have fun, study together and enjoy a wonderful summer day with a lot of sport activities.
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23.06.2019
Between 15 and 23 June 2019 in Sardinia, Italy, a training course on healthy lifestyle involving youth operators from partner countries was carried out and implemented on the basis of the Training Course (TC) format, jointly developed by the "HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement" (HEPOSI) project partners. The initiative gathered teams from Italy, Paraguay and Peru who, within seven working days, worked on creating a “Healthy Sensitive Youth” manual, outlining the methods used in project activities and focusing on the healthy lifestyle of young people from participating countries and planning of a local awareness raising campaign on a healthy lifestyle at national level in all partner countries.
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16.06.2019
Relay games for children and parents, lectures on the topic "Internet for Everyone", jumping tournaments with sacks, mini football tournament and a bunch of surprises were part of the fun for guests at Radio Park Fest. For the third year the Bulgarian National Radio organizes the mega event dedicated to the summer.
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26.03.2019
The first HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement (HEPOSI) project was held in Sofia in the period March 24 and 27, 2019, bringing together organizations from Italy, Paraguay and Peru to work together on the project, with the aim of capacity building in participating Latin American organizations. The WHO has placed health and physical activities among the crucial determinants of global health, underlining the role of insufficient levels of movement as one of the main factors enhancing death risk worldwide (see WHO Website). Physical activity has been proven to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases as cancer and diabetes, enjoying therefore a crucial importance not only for the wellbeing of the individuals but also from the perspective of societal health.
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23.02.2019
The project „Start Now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth”, officially has come to the end. Partners are very proud of the project’s results, especially the modules of non-formal health education and project results has been highlighted also by the Polish National Erasmus+ Agency that evaluated the project as „Good Practice”.
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13.02.2019
In the period 11-13 February 2019, a kick off meeting of CPMES project was held in Sassari, Italy, during which the partners agreed on a work plan of the activities and planned in detail each of the events foreseen in the project. The meeting was attended by the Bulgarian partner through Joanna Dochevska, Chairwoman of Bulgarian sports development association and Kalinka Gudarovska, BSDA Board member. "Curricular Pathways for Migrants’ Empowerment through Sport” (CPMES) focuses on employing the methodology of Education Through Sport (ETS) as a vehicle of upskilling and curricular enhancement of Sport Coaches and Trainers working in the field with disadvantaged target groups with migrant background in the perspective of fostering inclusion and equal opportunities in as well as through Sport for migrants.
The project pursues the specific Erasmus Plus Collaborative Partnership priorities related to encouraging social inclusion and equal opportunities in Sport. CPMES aims at answering the challenge of social exclusion of migrants in Europe, with a particular focus on addressing the compelling issue of systematic underrepresentation of migrants in non-playing roles within Sport clubs and organizations.
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29.01.2019
In the first days of 2019, Bulgarian sports development association has become full member of World Pacific Sports Federation and has been authorized to promote and encourage pacific Sports on National Level for peace.
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12.01.2019
Sport and Dialogue Against Violence and Discrimination project aims to tackle the problem of violence, discrimination, bullying in and around sporting events, among athletes, sport teams and their supporters. We aim to counter violent behavior through open dialogue, inclusion, tolerance and fair play in sport. The project wants to contribute to the use of sports as a diplomatic tool, one that unites nations and people, regardless of their background, ethnicity or gender. As we have recently seen in the Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang 2018, North and South Korea marched under the same flag, putting aside their long term/widely known political conflicts. International sporting events have the capacity to unite people from around the world and promote positive attitudes, tolerance, inclusion, friendship and cooperation among nations. They are a reflection of how different ethnicities can compete under the same flag and how cultural diversity plays a more and more important role in each country, in all sports. Fostering the inclusion of disadvantaged people and promoting equal rights and gender balance in sports is a great way to advertise sport and attract a broader public and make them want to engage in physical activities. Finding positive role models among athletes is especially important for children and young people, who look up to them. That is why it is important that people involved in sports come from various backgrounds, ethnic groups, that all sports involve both male and female competitors and that they send the right messages to the public; promote a healthy lifestyle and the development of grassroots sports and events for everyone.
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28.12.2018
A first collaboration between the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, PLAY International and UNICEF resulted in the creation of a "Values of Olympism" project, conveying strong educational messages related to the three values of Olympism: respect, friendship, excellence.
The "Values of Olympism" kit was a great success for school teachers and socio-sports animators in cities in 2016-2017, and children who were able to both enjoy and learn from these sports and sports activities. This kit, duplicated to 260 physical copies, has been adapted to the local realities of 4 countries (Burundi, Kosovo, Vanuatu and Haiti) allowing educators and teachers to play with 15,000 children.
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22.12.2018
On December 22, 2018, at the Fireball Sports Hall, a children's Christmas training of small athletes from Darko Hall was held. Over 50 children participated in the training and were supported by the Bulgarian sports development association, which sustainably supports the activities of the sports hall in 2018.
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18.12.2018
Project “Winter Sport is Coming” aims to promote winter sports not only as physical activity, but also as educational tool to support social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and European citizenship among young people from different backgrounds by development and implementation of “Winter Sports Program”. From long-term perspective, aim of the project is to increase participation of young people in Winter Sports and create model of camp that will include elements of non-formal education methods and can be implemented by other sport organizations in the future.
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16.12.2018
On December 16, 2018, Sunday, at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" a children's Christmas competition took place, which was organized by the Athletics Club at the Sports Academy with the participation of Prof. Ivaylo Lazarov and PhD Teresa Marinova. The event was attended by more than 100 children and was supported by the Bulgarian Sports Development Association.
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14.12.2018
#BeInclusive #BeActive #BeCreative: Bulgaria and the countries of the Western Balkans with common ideas for the European Sports Week in 2019.
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12.12.2018
Center for Development of Human Resources, Erasmus + National Agency in Bulgaria, organized an "Annual Meeting of Accredited Organizations on Volunteer Projects", which took place in Sofia on 12th of December 2018.
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10.12.2018
Club for Youth Empowerment 018 (KOM 018), Serbia will implement “(Re) Play for Inclusion” project supported by Erasmus + program, for the Capacity Building in The Field of Youth action in cooperation with partner organizations and sport clubs from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Macedonia. The project will bring together young people from Program and Partner countries to explore sport and games as methods in youth work and develop new forms of youth work for social inclusion through sport.
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06.12.2018
On December 6, 2018, at an official ceremony in Sofia, organized by the Center for Development of Human Resources, the Bulgarian sports development association was awarded with a quality sign for the organization and implementation of the “Vitamin S(port)” project, co-funded under the Erasmus + Program Key Action 1 - Mobility for young people and youth workers. The award was received by Emiliya Tzanova – Project assistant at BSDA and Nikola Zdravkov - a volunteer in the organization.
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05.12.2018
Between 04 and 05 December 2018, in Brussels, the second meeting of the sports cluster "Integrity in Sport", organized by the European Commission's Sport Directorate, was held to provide the participants with the opportunity to discuss the challenges in the sector, which include anti-doping, match fixing, sport corruption, gender equality, athletes' representation in sports policy-making processes, and so on. The meeting was attended by Joanna Dochevska, chairwoman of the Bulgarian sports development association, which implements the project "Good Governance in Sport" #GoodGovernanceSport.
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22.11.2018
According to official EU data, the European society suffers currently of lack of involvement in sport and physical activity and people are often not aware about the importance of healthy lifestyle. Sport organizations all over Europe play a crucial role in encouraging and engaging people to get physically active, but the level of civic involvement in voluntary activities related to sport is also warning.
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15.11.2018
In the period 13-15 November 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria, a final meeting on the project "Youth ambassadors of sport volunteering" was held, which in the last 2 years prepared and supported the implementation of the activities for promotion of volunteer activities in the field of sport. Ivaylo Zdravkov and Kalinka Gudarovska, members of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian sports development association and Emilia Tsanova, also part of the Association's team, took part in the meeting.
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12.11.2018
- SENTA project is focused on following topic:
Promote education in and through sport with special focus on skills development, as well support the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes
The objectives of the SENTA are to contribute to the recommended policy actions of the EC 2020 strategy and the dual career of elite athletes.
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09.11.2018
The topic of Youth Sports Fair Chance project is to combat violence and tackle racism, discrimination and intolerance in sports and around (e.g. at sporting events).
The project aims to identify, develop and compile sports-related best practices which optimally contribute to the dissemination of messages of respect, the fight against discrimination and racism and the prevention of all forms of violence in sports.
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09.11.2018
- EXERCISE AS A MEAN TO PREVENT AND RECOVER THE CHRONIC DISEASES /PREVENT/
- PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the project entitled "Exercise as a mean to prevent and recover the chronic diseases", are the following:
1) informing citizens on the benefits of exercise in health, preventing and recuperating chronic diseases and guiding them for safe and effective participation in organized exercise programs
2) to raise the awareness of health professionals to encourage patients to participate in systematic exercise and to update them with the most up-to-date research data on appropriate forms of exercise, depending on the specificity of the disease.
3) the training of doctors, health professionals (nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists) and exercise professionals for the safe and effective use of the exercise as a means of preventing and restoring chronic diseases.
4) Incitement, facilitation and guidance of public, municipal and private bodies for the organization of safe and effective exercise programs for the prevention and rehabilitation of chronic diseases throughout the country.
5) the networking of public, municipal and private providers offering health services and exercise services.
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06.11.2018
The aim in the project is to introduce European traditional sports and games. It is aimed to encourage children and young people to entertain with traditional games that are becoming widespread for this purpose.
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16.10.2018
In the period 12-16 October, 2018, Sofia organized open days in the frame of START NOW project, that took place in parallel in the three partner countries - Poland, Bulgaria and Cyprus within the framework of the European Health Promotion Initiative START NOW. On October 15 and 16, 2018 at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", all those interested were able to get acquainted with the developed training modules that youth and sports professionals can apply to work with young people and with the online training available for youth workers.
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08.10.2018
The Bulgarian Sports Development Associationa has hosted four international volunteers in Bulgaria who have carried out a variety of volunteer activities for the local community in Sofia, Bulgaria for a period of two months. Mobility was 59 days, starting on August 11 and ending October 8, 2018. During this period, volunteers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia and Portugal had the opportunity to gain experience in organizing sporting events, running sports projects and holding several youth workshops aimed at promoting volunteering.
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28.09.2018
On September 28, 2018 at 10:00, the opportunities for young people from 16 to 30 years of age and the implementation of Erasmus volunteer initiatives in the country and abroad were presented at the reading room of the library "Ivan Vazov-1872" in Berkovitsa. The organizer of the event was the Bulgarian Sports Development Association, Sofia, and partners in the initiative were Berkovitsa Municipality, Municipal Club of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Ivan Vazov-1872 Lyceum, Berkovitsa and Health in the Northwest Association.
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20.09.2018
What does "plogging" mean? You haven’t heard about it before? It's time to change that! We guarantee that you will fall in love with it too.
Plogging is a new fitness trend that began in Sweden. It connects jogging and garbage collecting around the area you practice. The best thing about plogging is that apart from burning more calories than regular jogging, you are cleaning the environment around you at the same time! So perfect! You may be wondering why to collect rubbish? Here are some reasons:
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10.09.2018
The WHO has placed health and physical activities among the crucial determinants of global health, underlining the role of insufficient levels of movement as one of the main factors enhancing death risk worldwide (see WHO Website).
Physical activity has been proven to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases as cancer and diabetes, enjoying therefore a crucial importance not only for the wellbeing of the individuals but also from the perspective of societal health.
According to WHO data, more than 80% of the World’s population in insufficiently physically active.
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04.09.2018
On September 4 (Tuesday), at 16:00, a voluntary workshop YouthUP, SportUP was held in the Conference Hall of Sandanski Municipality. During the meeting, experts from the Bulgarian Sports Development Association presented the overall framework of Erasmus+ program as well as the opportunities it provides in the field of education, youth and sport, focusing on the opportunities for inclusion of young people in them . The meeting was attended by young people, chairman of the Municipal Council in Sandanski, director and lecturers at the sports school in the city, coaches in various sports.
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16.08.2018
I am trying to gather my thoughts into one article, and more and more I realize that a handful of words will never be worthy to describe the experiences, the thousands things learned, the moments that put you on edge in order to jump from there and make a great flight; the many close friendships, the strong mentor support, the huge result you see from your work and the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a new country and culture.
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14.08.2018
Eurasia Bulgarian Open Badminton Championships 2018 is the biggest international badminton competition in Bulgaria. It is of the International Series class and has a prize pool of $ 10,000. This competition is attended by top athletes from Europe and the world, as well as Bulgarian stars such as Stoevi sisters, Maria Mitsova, Daniel Nikolov, Ivan Panev, Ivan Rusev, Peyo Boychinov, Petya Nedelcheva and others. More than 280 contestants from 37 countries take part in the international sports event, which is taking place in Europe Badminton Hall, held until 16 August 2018, and the event is free of charge for citizens.
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13.08.2018
Eurasia Bulgarian Open Badminton Championships 2018 is the biggest international badminton competition in Bulgaria. It is of the International Series class and has a prize pool of $ 10,000. This competition is attended by top athletes from Europe and the world, as well as Bulgarian stars such as Stoevi sisters, Maria Mitsova, Daniel Nikolov, Ivan Panev, Ivan Rusev, Peyo Boychinov, Petya Nedelcheva and others. More than 280 contestants from 37 countries take part in the international sports event, which is taking place in Europe Badminton Hall, held until 16 August 2018, and the event is free of charge for citizens.
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18.07.2018
#Good governance in sport project is coordinated by the Bulgarian sports development association and it has been co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission - Sport chapter and it is a collaborative partnership that will work together for 30 months, starting from 01/01/2018 and includes 7 countries. The #GoodGovernanceSport project aims to find a way to analyze, collect and promote good practices for appropriate visibility of decisions made by responsible bodies and transparency of sports organizations in Europe and partner countries.
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18.07.2018
The European Everyday of Sport project was held in the period 2016-2017 and was aimed at improving the exchange of good practices, the priority of Erasmus +, helping to identify and promote good practices from first and second edition of the European Week of Sport and promoting participation in sport and physical activity. The specific theme of this strategic partnership was focused on developing, identifying, promoting and sharing good practices.
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12.07.2018
Bulgarian sports development association will host 4 international volunteers in Bulgaria, who will carry out various volunteer activities for the local community in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Basic info:
Venue: Sofia, Bulgaria;
Start: 11th of August 2018;
End: 08th of October 2018;
Duration: 59 days (2 months);
Volunteers: Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 participants), Portugal and Slovakia – 1 participant per country.
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26.06.2018
On 26/06/2018 at 12:00 in Press Club "Bulgaria" in the National Stadium "Vasil Levski" a final press conference on the project "JUST SPORT" was held, which aimed to introduce to the public the activities, carried out during the last 18 months.
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24.06.2018
More than 300 children participated in the final stage of the National Children's Athletic Games "Athletics is looking for talents", which took place at "Vasil Levski" stadium in Sofia.
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24.06.2018
For the 12th consecutive year in the water-educational sports center of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" in Nessebar children and adults with disabilities participated in a summer camp on adapted water sports.
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24.06.2018
In the period 22-24 June 2018 in Velingrad a local meeting of the four youths, who are young ambassadors of sports development under the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors" took place.
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15.06.2018
On June 15, 2018, a second SAN / Sport Action Network meeting was held in Brussels. The network, set up in the autumn of 2017, brings together active bodies in the field of sport and physical activity at European level, representatives of the European Commission's Directorate General for Sport, consultants and representatives of the sports industry, and aims to share information and develop synergies between existing initiatives, while contributing to focusing national authorities' attention on investment in sports and sports infrastructure. The next financial framework for cohesion policy was discussed and how sporting activities were intertwined.
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10.06.2018
A final event for the SpeeCh project - A Sports Mental Community, which aims to support the processes of inclusion and integration of people with mental illnesses, took place in the period 08 - 10 June 2018 in Carsoli, Italy. During the event, a press conference was held at the Carsoli City Hall and the product of the project was presented, which is a vast practical edition in 200 pages on "Methodologies and Techniques for Managing Sport Activities Related to Social Inclusion in the Local Communities of People with Mental Illness", one third of the publication was prepared by a Bulgarian team of experts composed of: Joanna Dochevska and Ivailo Zdravkov (Bulgarian sports development association), Stefka Djobova, and Ivaylo Lazarov, (National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski"). Bulgarian sports development association received a thank-you plaque from the Municipality of Carsoli for the expert partnership and the dedication during the project activities
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07.06.2018
An International Anti-Doping Conference was held in Opatija, Croatia from 05 to 06 June 2018, which is a final event for the JUST SPORT project. More than 100 representatives from Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, Portugal and Bulgaria discussed the issue and analyzed the problems that each country encounters in preventing and combating banned substances. Bulgaria was presented by Joanna Dochevska and Ivaylo Zdravkov from Bulgarian sports development association, Dr. Hristina Ivancheva from the National Anti-Doping Center, Prof. Tsvetko Tsvetkov and Grigor Goutev from the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Ivan Tilev - professional basketball player and owner of NordGym Fitness Center
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01.06.2018
- Place:
in front of the Hristo Smirnenski lyceum, Zlatitsa;
- Date:
01.06.2018;
- Time:
10:00;
- Visits:
100 children;
- Organizer:
Advisory Council for Youth Policy - Zlatitsa and Zlatitsa Municipality.
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28.05.2018
On May 28, 2018, during the practice of Master's degree in sports management at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Joanna Dochevska - Chairwoman of the Board of BSDA presented the activities of the organization and introduced the students to the project #GoodGovernanceSport.
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19.05.2018
People with disabilities and their friends with big hearts ran together to support the sport for all and create an Adapted Youth Career Center. On May 19, the first Bulgarian edition of one of the most successful mini-marathons with a cause in the world took place. At the launch of Run2Gether, people with disabilities and their supporters with big hearts of politics, business, stage, sports, as well as many other sympathetic citizens stood alongside.
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17.05.2018
Today, May 17, 2018, on the occasion of the Day of Bulgarian Sport from 10:30 am in the Zaimov Park in Sofia was held a Children's Sports Day "Health in All Policies", organized in partnership by the Association of Bulgarians suffering from Asthma, Allergy and COPD (ABBA) and the Bulgarian sports development association, with the support of the Department of Athletics at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Sports School "Darko Team". More than 100 children from kindergartens were organized into sections for physical activity under the program of the International Athletics Federation - Children's athletics, which offers a combination of fun and movement. An information section was also created during the event, where citizens received information on chronic respiratory diseases and sports. The event was also supported by the Bulgarian Society of Pulmonary Diseases (BDBB), the Bulgarian Society of Allergology (BDA), the Confederation of Health Protection (CHP) and was held within the framework of the National Information Campaign "Lung Health in All Policies" - 2018.
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16.05.2018
On May 16, 2018 at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" took place International athletic tournament "New stars". The 40th edition of the international tournament started with a 60-meter start, with the participation of residents living in a Home for adults with mental disabilities in the town of Banya, Karlovo. Fanka Borisova, Aneta Hristova, Todorka Radeva, Pavlina Urdarska and Ana Atanasova were awarded by Prof. Apostol Slavchev, Deputy Rector of NSA "Vasil Levski". The girls also enjoyed the full sports program of the event, and a strong emotion was caused with the meeting with their sport idols in the face of Theresa Marinova and Svetla Dimitrova.
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26.04.2018
We inform you that we are looking for 4 motivated EVS volunteers for “Bulgarian sports development association”, Sofia, Bulgaria.
BASIC INFO
• Venue: Sofia, Bulgaria;
• Start: 11 of August 2018;
• End: 08 of October 2018;
• Duration: 59 days (2 months);
• Number of Vacancies: 4;
• Deadline to apply: 20th of June 2018;
• EVS Accreditation number: 2016-1-BG01-KA110-024094;
• This call is open to participants from: Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 participants), Portugal and Slovakia – 1 participant per country.
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24.04.2018
Validation of the European values through sport and combating doping in sport are among the main priorities of the Ministry of Youth and Sports during the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. This was announced by the Minister of Youth and Sport - Krasen Kralev, who opened the first meeting of the European Commission's Expert Group "Integrity" (XG INT), held in Varna (23-24 April 2018). The expert group includes representatives of the governments of all member states, as well as representatives of international institutions working in the field of integrity in sport - Interpol, Europol, UN, Sporttardar. According to Krasen Kralev, sport allows the imposition of values for the integration of communities to prevent violence and aggression among adolescents. That is why it is important to ensure fair competition on equal terms in all sports. The minister also said that the use of doping is no less manipulative than the previously agreed outcome for betting profit, because it violates the equality of rivals.
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24.04.2018
On 25.04.2018 in Sofia was held a sports promotional event under the project Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteer (YASV) at 109 Hristo Smirnenski School, which was held jointly with the Ahil Sports Club. The small participants got acquainted with interesting topics related to the prevention of school hooliganism.
Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteering project is a joint partnership between four countries and aims to promote volunteering in sport, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle by increasing participation in sport for all. The project provides 3 transnational meetings to present the results achieved at each stage and to provide a quality monitoring process. During international training, a team of qualified trainers will help prepare ambassadors for the organization and promotion of sporting events, motivation for sport and volunteer activities of their peers, and will structure the preparation of events to be held during the European Week of sport - September 2017.
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23.04.2018
Kubrat Pulev met the girls from the Bulgarian team on integrated football. Our best professional boxer visited the team during a tournament at the Olympic Park in Berlin.
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15.04.2018
The third international meeting on the Just Sport project was held from 12 to 15 April 2018 in Umeå, Sweden, and gathered the project partners who, within two working days, discussed the activities, activities and initiatives to be undertaken and the preparation at the upcoming international conference which is going to be held in June in Rijeka, Croatia. Ivailo Zdravkov member of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner of the project from Bulgaria, took part in the meeting.
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05.04.2018
On 05/04/2018, Bulgarian sports development association organized sports activities for residents in the House for adults with mental disabilities in the town of Banya, Karlovo. The sports session that took place in the home is a final workout for the participation of representatives of the institution in an international sports event, which is going to be held in Berlin, Germany, between 19-22 April 2018. The sports activities were held jointly with the students of the specialty "Adapted Physical Activity and Sports" at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and the Confederation "Health Protection". Local community members also took part in.
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05.04.2018
The #GoodGovernanceSport project aims to find a way to analyze, collect and disseminate good practices for visibility of decisions made in sports organizations, information on governing bodies and the transparency of public funding.
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30.03.2018
In the period 27 - 30 March, 2018 in Sofia was held the first international meeting on the project "Good Governance in Sport", which is going to be coordinated by the Bulgarian Sports Development Association in a period of 36 months and which aims to provide analyzes and specific tools to improve management processes in the area of sport. The meeting was attended by representatives of the partner organizations of the project from Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, which during the meeting, have examined the goals that the project will achieve and the steps for the implementation of the activities which are going to ensure greater transparency of the public face of sports organizations through a methodology for analyzing their websites, training and certification activities, including an online training module, activities to promote values and good governance principles as well as specific instruments for achieving sustainable and transparent governance in the sector.
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20.03.2018
On the 12th of March 2018, an anti-doping seminar JUST SPORT was launched, which aimed to train and inform fitness instructors and fitness center owners within 5 days about the negative consequences that the uncontrolled use of nutritional supplements in the field of grassroots sports (mostly in fitness centers) could lead to.
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17.03.2018
In the period 09.03.-16.03.2018 in Gulcholazi, Poland, a training course under the project "Start Now! - Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth” under the Erasmus + program Key Activity 2: Strategic Partnerships. Representatives from different youth organizations from three countries - Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland - took part.
During the training course, various non-formal education methods were discussed to promote a healthy lifestyle. An online platform was presented, where all the training modules developed at the project will be available: www.startnow-learning.eu.
The training was organized by the HOPP Organization from Opole, Poland. A total of 7 representatives of youth organizations from Bulgaria took part in the training course, including Kalinka Gudarovska, a member of the Management Board of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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31.01.2018
The European Commission and the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) organized an Information Day on the 30th of January 2018 in Brussels to inform potential candidates about the possibilities of Erasmus + Sport, EU funding mechanisms and EU sports policy.
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25.01.2018
The International Seminar "Preventing the Use of Doping in Professional and Sport for All through Training and Investigation" took place on 24 and 25 January in Sofia and gathered 80 foreign and 40 local experts in the field of sport. More than 120 representatives of international anti-doping organizations, representatives of EU member states and anti-doping organizations from Europe, as well as representatives of sports federations in Bulgaria attended the first day of the seminar.
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22.01.2018
Joanna Dochevska, Chairwoman of the Bulgarian sports development association, In Development, 22.01.2018.
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13.01.2018
Target group: fitness instructors and fitness center owners
Training period: 12-16 March 2018, 10:00 - 12:00
Location: Vitosha Park Hotel, 1 Rosario Str., Studentski Grad
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12.01.2018
On January 12, 2018, the first local event on YSDA project was organized by Nikola Zdravkov, one of the ambassadors of sports development in Bulgaria. Nicola is 16 years old, from Sofia, and organizes for her friends a basketball game where 20 youngsters were sporting and having fun. This is the first of ten consecutive events that each of the four ambassadors in Bulgaria will realize by April 2018. The events in Plovdiv will be organized by Galin Genov and Alexander Iliev, and in Yakorouda by Musalina Dzhaliland youngsters up to 24 years of age from these cities can install the official mobile application of the project and participate in the events.
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10.01.2018
The main objective of the PASSPORT (Project for Academy Sport SupPORT) project is to promote and support good governance in sport and dual careers of athletes. It addresses the aforementioned objectives by raising the awareness of dual carrier for athletes. Athletes often face challenges to combine their sporting career with education. According to international research, one-third of all participants from sports each year as they consider that sport takes up too much of their time.
PASSPORT promote and support dual careers for athletes by setting up a transnational network of partners that will develop a platform for the training of athletes in the sport management, hence contributing to their employability.
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08.01.2018
In the last years, European and international organizations have been deeply worked to describe the capabilities of sport as a tool to promote social changes and to encourage its use to achieve social developments. Yet, many improvements still need to be done. The main objective of the project Platform for Inclusion, Culture and Sport /PICS/ consists in promoting voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in, and equal access to, sport for all.
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30.12.2017
Project title: Upload Sport & Mediterranean Diet and Upload sedentary life and fast food /START/.
The project intends to highlight the benefits of physical activity, including sports and regular exercise, over a lifetime are huge and include a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer and diabetes, improving musculoskeletal health and weight control, as well as positive effects on the development of mental health and cognitive processes. The project, therefore, wishes to affirm in an incisive way, this concept: "Sport is a human activity resting on fundamental social, educational and cultural values. It 'a factor making for integration, involvement in social life, tolerance, acceptance of differences and playing by the rules." Declaration of the European Council in Nice, in December 2000.
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30.12.2017
Equity through sport for youth development / ETSYD is a project that aims to improve social inclusion, equality, tolerance, fair-play, the reduction of educational difficulties and the lifestyles related to health thorough promoting and enhancing voluntary activities in sport for the young people aging 7-19 years old from 6 the most underprivileged schools from Bucharest, sector 3, Romania, for 18 months. According to the Bucharest municipality – Sector 3, in 2011, the most underprivileged schools and high schools from sector 3 were: the „Mexic” Secondary School (286 pupils), the Secondary School No. 95 (568 pupils), the ”Decebal” Theoretical High school (1240 pupils), the Special Secondary School No. 5 (209 elevi), the „Voievod Neagoe Basarab” Secondary School (319 pupils), the Secondary School No. 86 (760 pupils). The target group (the direct beneficiaries) represents the children and the teachers from these schools while the indirect beneficiaries of the results of the project will be the sport teachers, the parents, the friends of the youngsters involved directly in the project’s activities as well as other education facilities informed through dissemination activities.
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30.12.2017
Protection of integrity of young sports people, young athletes involved in elite sports may put at risk their health because of increasing pressure to achieve results even at the lowest levels of competitions.
Increased requirements of the training process in order to achieve better results carry a risk of disorders of vital functions in the body. Ignorance of the basic principles of the training process - the frequency, intensity and duration, combined with inadequate preparedness of athletes and their objective possibilities cause greater number of pathophysiological changes in the body.
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29.12.2017
Our country will also host the event, which is the most important for the development of the sector - the Sports Forum, said in the morning TV block Joanna Dochevska, chairwoman of the Bulgarian sports development association.
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19.12.2017
Between 17 and 19 December 2017, an interim meeting took place in Bergamo, Italy under The Youth Sport Development Ambassadors project, which will be implemented within 2 years, will focus on volunteering in the sphere of sport that promotes the social inclusion of young people between 16 and 24 years of age. The projects will be implemented by 4 young people in each country who will be young sports development ambassadors and will implement activities aimed at young people of their age who will acquire a higher degree of socialization in our society. “Bulgarian sports development association" is the project partner responsible for the activities in Bulgaria, and the meeting was presented by Joanna Dochevska - Chairwoman of the Management Board. All the details of the project were discussed during the meeting, the timing of the project activities and the progress report on the work activities, the communication and the logistics details were synchronized.
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18.12.2017
“Building healthy Communities, changing opportunities”
Small Collaborative partnership
Project Num: 590548-EPP-1-2017-1-BG-SPO-SSCP
Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Sport Programme of the European Commission
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17.12.2017
Today, December 17, 2017 at the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" - indoor athletics hall took place a Christmas tournament for children in track and field athletics. The celebration was organized to mark the International Volunteer Day with volunteering. The event involved more than 60 children and was conducted with over 20 volunteers.
The event is organized by the Department of Athletics of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski", Sports Club "CLASs" and Bulgarian sports development association. The participants received awards from the sponsors of the event - Powers Marks. Each child also received a certificate for participation from the Bulgarian sports development association and the organizers hope this initiative, which is held for the third consecutive year, to raise the interest of the adolescents towards sport and physical activity and to motivate them to be active in your everyday life. The young athletes were awarded by Prof. Stefan Stoykov, Head of Athletics Department, Teresa Marinova, Olympic champion and teacher at NSA "Vasil Levski" and Ivaylo Lazarov - main organizer of the competition and lecturer at the Academy. In order to be involved in the physical activity of the children, a lottery was realized among the parents, the prize from the lottery was won by Velichka Georgieva.
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13.12.2017
The aim of project MOST – Mobility of staff is to encourage the cooperation between the administrative sports bodies at the national and local levels. Additionally educate staffs who perform duties of administrational representatives of sports clubs and associations. Fight for the jobs on a training position “administrator in sports” that belong to competent people with the experience in the sport.
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13.12.2017
Good governance in sport sector has been a topic that is becoming more and more needed in the field, as we are seeing the endless problems, starting with:
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09.12.2017
On 9th of December 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria,second dissemination sport event was held to promote the informal learning methods acquired during the Play Forward project, sport and physical activity was used as tools for improving and guaranteeing human rights among young people.
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06.12.2017
The project Encouraging girls’ participation in sports - 2, EGPiS2, was born in the wake of the success of the omonymous previous project, and aims to deal in-depth with some crucial aspects concerning the theme of girls’ and young women’s participation in sports, aspects that were brought to light from the first project.
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05.12.2017
As indicated in the “EU Physical Activity Guidelines”, the human body, as a consequence of regular physical activity, undergoes morphological and functional changes, which can prevent or delay the appearance of certain illnesses and improve our capacity for physical effort. At present there is sufficient evidence to show that those who live a physically active life can gain a number of health benefits, including a lowered risk of certain cancers, such as breast, prostate and colon cancer.
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05.12.2017
“A Path to TranSportAction” (APTSA) is a project involving a total of 5 organizations from Europe (Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru), whose main aim is to enhance the capacity of youth organizations and stakeholders in all partner countries and beyond to use Sport in combination with high-end Non Formal Education methodologies for fostering a gender-inclusive approach to Sport practices, contrasting sexism and gender stereotypes and promoting equality and mutual respect among genders in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and in Latin America.
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03.12.2017
Emotional ceremony and breathtaking spectacle marked the official start of Sofia - European Capital of Sports initiative on December the 2nd. Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture in the capital was too small to gather all of those who were wishing to witness the historic events culminating in the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski".
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20.11.2017
“Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth” is a project in the frame of “Erasmus+” Programme Key Action 2. The main objective of the project is to promote a healthy lifestyle among youth off all ages. The project will be implemented in the period from March 2017 till December 2018, in three European countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland. The main objective of the project is to promote a healthy lifestyle among youth off all ages. The project aim is to implement in different youth organizations an innovative methods of non-formal education about health awareness.
The project is being implemented by the Promotion "HOPP" organization from Opole (PL) in partnership with: Bulgarian sports development association from Sofia (BG) and Organization for Social Policy and Action from Nicosia (Cyprus).
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10.11.2017
In the period 09-12 November 2017, in Sassari, Italy, an interim meeting was held on the project Young ambassadors of sport volunteering, in which representatives of all partner organizations in the project took part, and on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association Joanna Dochevska, Chairwoman of BSDA, took part. The project "Young ambassadors of sport volunteering" aims to prepare and support 5 participants from each partner country in the implementation of activities to promote volunteering in the sphere of sport. ARBS works for the development and promotion of volunteering in the sphere of sports in Bulgaria and over the years has implemented a large number of campaigns and initiatives on the topic and works purposefully for normative collateral of volunteering. Under this project, volunteers in Bulgaria organized a series of events, part of which was dedicated to the European 2017 Sports Week, including a hike to Vitosha, a volleyball challenge and an active international weekend.
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08.11.2017
Sport has the power to improve social inclusion.
He does not discriminate against any sign.
No one is different!
In sport we are all equal!
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06.11.2017
At the beginning of November in Sofia, Bulgaria,first dissemination sport event was held to promote the informal learning methods acquired during the Play Forward project, sport and physical activity was used as tools for improving and guaranteeing human rights among young people people.
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26.10.2017
On 26/10/2017, Bulgarian sport development association organized sport activities for residents in the State Community for Adults with Mental Disabilities in the village of Banya, Karlovo. During the sport sessions that took place in the community were filmed video footage, which aims to present the power of the sport as tool for integration and equal opportunities for all social groups. The sports activities were held with the support of the students of „Adapted Physical Activity and Sport” bachelor degree in National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" and have also included local community members.
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23.10.2017
START NOW! is a strategic partnership that will focus its efforts on promoting health among young people in three European countries - Poland, Bulgaria and Cyprus, and will implement innovative non - formal learning methods for health awareness among youth organizations in partner countries. The partnership was launched in the period 21-23 April 2017 at an international meeting in Opole, Poland, and the next project meeting was held in Bulgaria between 30.06 and 03.07.2017, with representatives of Bulgaria, Poland and Cyprus taking part in the Health Festival, where they met with citizens and presented the project's activities, and then focused on discussing training modules for conducting health education through informal learning methods.
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22.10.2017
On 22.09.2017 a picnic was held in Pancharevo, where young people from Bulgaria and South Korea took part, sharing their time with positive emotions. The event was organized by Yordanka Hristova, one of the young ambassadors of sporting development, and the participants shared delicious food that they had brought and then took part in entertaining and educational sports activities. They were divided into two teams and competed among themselves, and finally there were awards for the winners.
Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteering project is a joint partnership between four countries and aims to promote volunteering in sport, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle by increasing participation in sport for all. The project provides 3 transnational meetings to present the results achieved at each stage and to provide a quality monitoring process. During international training, a team of qualified trainers will help prepare ambassadors for the organization and promotion of sporting events, motivation for sport and volunteer activities of their peers, and will structure the preparation of events to be held during the European Week of sport - September 2017.
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08.10.2017
On October 8, the first of its kind Festival of Abilities took place in Sofia. This Sunday, between 11:00 and 17:00, in the metropolitan area of Largo (the Serdika Antiqued Complex at the Serdika subway), Ability Fest Sofia 2017 unfolded as a celebration of skills and differences.
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29.09.2017
A few days ago a part of the BSDA team came back from Portugal, where they took part in the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors" (YSDA) in the period 25.09.-29.09-2017. Representatives in the face of Kalinka Gudarovska, a member of the Board of Directors as mentor and Musalina Dzhalil, her young ambassador, have taken part in numerous sports activities such as archery, kayaking on the Tua River, table tennis, beach volleyball, basketball and football. In their physical activities, they have partnered with project designers from Slovenia, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, as well as students from Africa who are studying at the local university in the small picturesque town in northern Portugal, Miranda.
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23.09.2017
The European Week of Sport is an initiative of the European Commission to promote sport and motor activity among the population of Europe. The goal is to increase the number of physically active citizens, because sport improves quality of life, improves health, reduces households' economic costs and brings a message of tolerance. The week will be held from 23-30 September 2017 across Europe, coordinated by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Bulgaria.
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23.09.2017
The European Week of Sport is an initiative of the European Commission to promote sport and motor activity among the population of Europe. The goal is to increase the number of physically active citizens, because sport improves quality of life, improves health, reduces households' economic costs and brings a message of tolerance. The week will be held from 23-30 September 2017 across Europe, coordinated by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Bulgaria.
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13.09.2017
In the period 07-11 September 2017, an international meeting was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors", and representatives of the Bulgarian sports development association were the young ambassador of sports development - Alexander Iliev and Dimitar Tasev as his mentor. The Youth Sport Development Ambassadors (YSDA) project aims to train youth leaders in the field of sport, which will organize a series of different events and initiatives in seven European countries. The main goal of the project is to motivate more and more young people to be physically active.
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10.09.2017
Rijeka’s Sport Association is at the helm of the European project titled Just Sport and financed through the Erasmus + Sport program. Over the 18-month period, during which the project will be implemented, the association will team up with its five partners from Slovenia, Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal and Sweden, and work on educating on and raising awareness of the harmfulness of using banned doping agents and the uncontrolled consumption of various supplements in recreational sports.
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28.08.2017
In the period 24-28 August, an international meeting was held in Sofia under the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors", with the participation of the four young ambassadors from Bulgaria, who will have the opportunity to exchange experience and knowledge with their peers from Italy, Hungary , Wales and Slovenia. The Youth Sport Development Ambassadors (YSDA) project aims to train youth leaders in the field of sport, which will organize a series of different events and initiatives in seven European countries. The main goal of the project is to motivate more and more young people to be physically active. Partner of the project from Bulgaria is "Bulgarian Sports Development Association".
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08.07.2017
Ivan Tilev is well known to Bulgarian basketball fans, although in the last few seasons he was more active abroad than in our home country. The former national has spent the last year in clubs in Germany and Italy, and when he is in Bulgaria he transmits the experience gained outside our homeland to visitors to North Jim - a fitness center in Nadezhda, which he manages. His professional career in the last few years has been developed with participation in 3x3 tournaments in Bulgaria and Europe with a team leader who runs the NorthGym Streetball team. NordGym is also one of the fitness centers that is a partner in the JUST SPORT project, co-funded under the Erasmus + program, and aims to inform young people visiting sports and fitness centers and novice athletes and to provide them with information for the negative effects of substances recognized as doping.
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03.07.2017
We have just finished our second international meeting, which been held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Thanks to our bulgarian partner: Bulgarian Sports Development Association we had spend 4 hard working days during which we reached another step in our project: "Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth".
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04.06.2017
On 05/06/2017 in Sofia was held a dissemination event of JUST SPORT project. In the event participated more than 30 youth sport specialists that had the opportunity the get information about the negative consequences caused by using supplements with harmful additives. Using supplements for gaining muscle weight impacts the organism in a predominantly negative manner. For example, it can cause depleted testosterone levels, increase risks of cardiovascular and liver diseases. Besides, it can cause dysfunction of the female reproductive system (absence of period), hormonal dysfunctions and excessive hairiness etc. mostly due to lack of professional supervision and somewhat dilettante pursuit of faster track of progress. Appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs) include a wide range of substances that vary from fitness supplements to pharmaceutical grade synthetic hormones, peptides or other drugs. The progression from fitness supplement use to synthetic hormone abuse is poorly understood and differs from the pattern of drug initiation for most other substances of abuse.
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27.05.2017
International training of young ambassadors of sport volunteering took place in Bulgaria in the period 23-29 May 2017 with the main objective to stimulate the strong commitment of 5 ambassadors from each country. The Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteering project aims to select, prepare and support 5 participants from each partner country in the implementation of the activities to promote volunteering in the sports activities. The Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner in the project from Bulgaria, works for the development and promotion of volunteering in the sphere of sports in Bulgaria, and has conducted a number of campaigns and initiatives over the years and has insisted for years on regulatory collateral of volunteering.
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27.05.2017
Between 22-26 May 2017, an international meeting was held in Wales on the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors", and representatives of the Bulgaria Sports Development Association were the young sports development ambassador - Nikola Zdravkov and Konstantin Zankov as his mentor and member of the Board of Directors of BSDA. The Youth Sport Development Ambassadors (YSDA) project aims to train youth leaders in the field of sport, which will organize a series of different events and initiatives in seven European countries. The main goal of the project is to motivate more and more young people to be physically active.
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23.05.2017
International training of young ambassadors of sport volunteering started in Sofia and will be held in Bulgaria from 23-29 May 2017 with the main objective to stimulate the strong commitment of 5 ambassadors from each country. The Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteering project aims to select, prepare and support 5 participants from each partner country in the implementation of the activities to promote volunteering in the sports activities. The Bulgarian sports development association, which is a partner in the project from Bulgaria, works for the development and promotion of volunteering in the sphere of sports in Bulgaria, and has conducted a number of campaigns and initiatives over the years and has insisted for years on regulatory collateral of volunteering.
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20.05.2017
Between 18 and 21 May 2017, the first meeting of the SpeeCh project took place in the municipality of Karsoli, Italy, where Joanna Dochevska - coordinator and Stefka Djobova - a psychomotor for the project took part. The SpeeCh - Sports Psychiatric Community project is a project that starts on January 1, 2017 and will carry out a variety of activities in the next two years.
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19.05.2017
In the town of Szczecin, Poland was held the first mobility of young sports development ambassadors under the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors". Within 5 days, participants from Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Wales and Hungary discussed the issues of sport and discussed new methods of promoting physical activity.
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23.04.2017
START NOW! is a strategic partnership that will focus its efforts on promoting health among young people in three European countries - Poland, Bulgaria and Cyprus, and will implement innovative non - formal learning methods for health awareness among youth organizations in partner countries. The partnership was launched in the period 21-23 April 2017 at an international meeting in Opole, Poland, where the Bulgarian partner organization ("Bulgarian sports development association") took part Joanna Dochevska - Chairwoman of BSDA and Kalinka Gudarovska - Member of Board of Directors of BSDA.
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17.04.2017
We present to you the four young ambassadors of sports development of YSDA project:
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16.04.2017
On April 15th, 2017, the first local meeting of the four young people was held in Sofia, which after the selection process were selected to be young sports development ambassadors under the project "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors".
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09.04.2017
In the period 3.04-7.04.2017 in Cardiff, Wales was held an introductory conference on the project " Youth Sport Development Ambassadors ", which was attended by a representative of the Bulgarian sports development association - Ivaylo Zdravkov, member of the Board of BSDA and Nikola Zdravkov - one of the four young sports development ambassadors from Bulgaria.
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23.03.2017
The Minister of Youth and Sports Daniela Dasheva met the ninth grader from the 51st Elementary School "Elisaveta Bagryana" Nicola Zdravkov, who became the Youth Sport Ambassador under the "Youth Sport Development Ambassadors" under the Erasmus + program. Nicola participates in an essay contest entitled "What sport gives us", which describes the problems in this sphere and the basic qualities that develops physical activity. With his text, he became a Youth Sport Ambassador for Bulgaria and will participate in volunteer and projects activities in vulnerable communities over the next two years.
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14.03.2017
Between 08 and 09 March 2017, in St Julian, Malta, as part of the EU's Maltese Presidency, the 2017 Sport Forum was held, which was organized by the European Commission - Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, and gathered over 250 policy-makers across Europe.
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13.03.2017
The Young Ambassadors of Sport Volunteering project will select, prepare and support 5 participants from each partner country in the implementation of activities to promote volunteering in the field of sport.
This project is a joint partnership between four countries and aims to promote volunteering in sport, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle by increasing participation in sport for all. The project provides 3 transnational meetings to present the results achieved at each stage and to provide a quality monitoring process. In addition, at the implementation stage, this project includes international training of young ambassadors of sport volunteering, to be held in Bulgaria in May 2017, and will stimulate their strong engagement as well as the involvement of partner organizations within the planned 2 main workflows at local level.
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03.03.2017
In the period 02 - 05 March 2017, in Sassari, Italy, the first meeting of the Young Ambassadors for Sport and Volunteering Project was held, which will select, prepare and support 5 participants from each partner country for the promotion of volunteer activities in the field of sport. Joanna Dochevska - Chairwoman of the Bulgarian sports development association, who is a partner of the project from Bulgaria, took part in the meeting. BSDA works for the development and promotion of volunteering in the sphere of sports in Bulgaria and over the years has implemented a large number of campaigns and initiatives on the topic and works purposefully for normative collateral of volunteering. A "Young Volunteer in Sport Handbook" has been created, many volunteer programs are being developed in sports organizations, as well as an online volunteer database - "Be Volunteer!", Which includes people from all over the country, including the possibility to join volunteer sports projects, their experience and personal skills. To this date, over 170 volunteers have been registered.
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13.02.2017
European everyday of sport project has been presented to interested target groups in multiple events as the following ones:
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10.02.2017
SpeeCh project - SPORT PSYCHIATRY COMMUNITY is a project that started on 01/01/2017 and will implement various activities in the next 2 years. Main project activities are:
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09.02.2017
#JustSport project addresses the aforementioned objectives by raising the awareness of negative consequences caused by the non-controlled use of supplements at grassroots level mostly in fitness centres (i.e. recreational environment, mostly among recreationists in fitness centres) in partner countries.
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03.02.2017
The program is aimed at youngsters of school age who motivate their friends to be physically active and sporty. It launched a few years ago in Wales and is currently experiencing great results. Young people choose a physical activity, that is interesting and entertaining for them, and ambassadors have to make a 10-week program for their peers. One of the most interesting and rewarding successes is "Get in the shape for the prom", but yoga, aerobics, basketball, football, as well as lecture sessions on healthy eating are organized on the basis of the students' interests. Through the program, in addition to the love of physical activity, the young ambassadors are also responsible, co-operative, flexible, organized, confident and other qualities that will be useful to them in future personal and professional development.
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27.01.2017
We inform you that we are looking for 4 motivated EVS volunteers for “Bulgarian sports development association”, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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16.01.2017
This small collaborative partnership project aims to promote voluntary activities in sport, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyle through increased participation in sport for all. The project will be held through 3 transnational meetings with the purpose to present the results achieved at each stage and to ensure quality monitoring process. Moreover, the implementation phase includes an international training for the young volunteer sport ambassadors and their strong involvement, as well as the participation of the partner organizations within 2 main working streams planned to happen on local level. The main work phases, dedicated to local actions, are related to the promotion of sport culture and raising awareness about the importance of being physically active, and the promotion of volunteering, its values and its benefits for society. Also the project plans ongoing processes of M&E, as well as a dissemination phase, both of them on local and international level. In addition, as final output the project will create an online platform which will gather all tangible results, best practices shared and indications for fellow organizations and stakeholders to follow the same path towards the promotion of sport culture and volunteering in sports as ways of promoting equal opportunities and combating social exclusion. Therefore the partners consortium believes that the achievement of a maximum of successful results will be guaranteed.
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11.01.2017
Between 10 and 12 January 2017, a first meeting of the Youth Sport Development Ambassadors project was held in Budapest, Hungary. The project will take place within two years and will focus on activities connected with volunteering in the sport field and which promote the social inclusion of young people aged 16-24. A major focus will be on the development of four Youth Sport Development Ambassadors from each country to be empowered to develop projects with target groups of young people from ethnic minorities and migrant backgrounds. The Bulgarian sport development association is a project partner responsible for the activities in Bulgaria, and the meeting was presented by Joanna Dochevska - Chairwoman of the Board.
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09.01.2017
“European volunteers in sport - EVS” is a 2 months (59 days) experience in Sofia. 4 volunteers, coming from 4 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) are going to commit themselves to European volunteers in sport experience: an EVS project that will take place in Sofia (Bulgaria). European voluntary service is one of the best programs for youth development and gaining practical skills and knowledge in the sport field will be very useful for the volunteers that will commit to this experience. As the Commissioner Navracsics has stated recently, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the program, until 2020 we need to support 20000 volunteers every year going abroad. Following and implementing this EU policy, we are trying to do our best to realize amazing volunteering experience at local level in Bulgaria.
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05.01.2017
START NOW – STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AMONG YOUTH
DATES: 01.03.2017 – 30.11.2018
PARTNERS: BULGARIA & CYPRUS
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05.01.2017
"Bulgarian sports development association"is partner in Training Course: Basics of group dynamics and facilitating process.
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05.01.2017
A new playful project is coming in 2017 at Olde Vechte Foundation,in Ommen, The Netherlands!
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23.12.2016
E.D.G.E. - European Anti-Doping Generation is a 12 months small collaborative partnership that involves 5 partners in 4 different countries (Italy, Latvia, Austria and Bulgaria) and aims to promote an anti-doping culture among young athlets and sport instructors.
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06.12.2016
This 2 year project will focus on peer led voluntary action in sport to promote social inclusion in sport for young people aged between 16 and 24. The focus will be on developing Youth Sport Development Ambassadors (YSDAs) to develop projects with groups of young people from ethnic minority and migrant populations.
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05.12.2016
“JUST SPORT” project addresses the aforementioned objectives by raising the awareness of negative consequences caused by the non-controlled use of supplements at grassroots level mostly in fitness centers (i.e. recreational environment, mostly among Recreationists in fitness centres) in partner countries.
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04.12.2016
On 4th of December 2016, in National sports academy "Vassil Levski" in Sofia, Bulgaria was held kids sport event "Move, have fun!", organized by "Bulgarian sports development association". The dissemination event was organized to celebrate 5th of December - International volunteer day with volunteering activity. In the event took part more 200 kids and was organized with the support of 50 volunteers. Kids had the opportunity to try track and field athletics with the program of IAAF - Kids athletics, kids gold program and mini - tennis. All participants received certificate and awards from the sponsors of the event - "Refan"and "Powermark".
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03.12.2016
On 3rd of December 2016, in National sports academy "Vassil Levski" in Sofia, Bulgaria was held seminar for students and teachers, that teach them how to use the program of IAAF - Kids athletics, organized by "Bulgarian sports development association", in partnership with Bulgarian athletics federation. Seminar was held with the expert support of chief assistant in National sports academy - Ivaylo Lazarov, who has teached 30 participants how to use the methodology in their daily work with kids and youngsters. During sport event, held on 4th of December, participants in the seminar had the opportunity to show on practice what they have learned.
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02.08.2016
In the period 28/07 – 31/07/2016 in Sassari, Italy was held the kick off meeting of “European everyday of sport”, co-funded by European Commission, “Erasmus Plus” Programme, Collaborative Partnerships in the field of Sport, related to European week of sport.
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12.04.2016
Project is designed to improve sharing of good practices, priority of Erasmus+ programme, to find and promote good practices from first and second edition of European Week of Sport and to encourage participation in sport and physical activity. The most specific topic this strategic partnership will be focused is the development, identification, promotion and sharing of good practices.
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16.08.2015
In the period 9 to 16 August 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria was held a training course under "Volunteering Knowledge" project, funded by the "Erasmus +" program, activity K1 - mobility of youth workers, which hosts 41 youth workers from 10 countries in Europe. The project aims to acquaint the participants and the public with the importance of volunteering as a tool of acquiring new knowledge and skills.
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30.07.2015
A bit more than a week has left until the start of TC “Volunteering for knowledge” that will host 41 youth workers from 10 countries all over Europe.
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12.05.2015
Bulgaria was chosen for the first time in the face of Joanna Dochevska, chairman of the "Bulgarian sports development association" to participate in the mentoring program at the Youth Fund of the United Nations (UN).
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