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BSDA HELD A TRAINING UNDER THE EWA PROJECT
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.
The project aims to counter abuse, violence and harassment against female athletes in EU Sports Clubs through a comprehensive approach that collects past and present efforts and forces against the problem in order to power up the overall sports management systems to take charge of it.
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.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
• Catalyze social players and communities in Europe that already dealt with the issue around a comprehensive dialogue on the state of the art and next steps to take;
• Promote and innovative and multi-layered response to the problem tackled, maximizing and building on past experiences and creating new strategies and tools at EU level;
• Activate beneficiaries in Europe through a grass-roots awareness-rising campaign aiming at acknowledging and valorizing the role of women in sports;
• Produce and disseminate counter-narratives on women in sports though a social-media campaign;
• Test and assess a training and awareness raising campaign addressed to AERS (Ambassadors of Equal Rights in Sports) and sports professionals (coaches, tutors, managers, etc.);
• Experiment a peer-to-peer support system to encourage adoption of concrete solutions to the problem of serious violence and abuse of female athletes;
• Raise and submit a petition on the issue to the EU that is participated by citizens in the European Union.
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
• IO1 – Publication “State of the Art and Best Practices in Tackling Violence against Female Athletes”;
• IO2 – Toolkit “Strategies and Tools for Empowering Athletes”;
• IO3 – Training Course “The Crucial Role of Sports Professionals in Combating Abuse, Violence and Discrimination against Women in Sports”;
• IO4 – Model “A Centralized Peer-to-Peer Helpdesk Model for Female Athletes”;
• IO5 – European Petition “Enhancing Safety Measures for Female Athletes in Europe”.
The EWA project is co-funded under the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
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.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
• Catalyze social players and communities in Europe that already dealt with the issue around a comprehensive dialogue on the state of the art and next steps to take;
• Promote and innovative and multi-layered response to the problem tackled, maximizing and building on past experiences and creating new strategies and tools at EU level;
• Activate beneficiaries in Europe through a grass-roots awareness-rising campaign aiming at acknowledging and valorizing the role of women in sports;
• Produce and disseminate counter-narratives on women in sports though a social-media campaign;
• Test and assess a training and awareness raising campaign addressed to AERS (Ambassadors of Equal Rights in Sports) and sports professionals (coaches, tutors, managers, etc.);
• Experiment a peer-to-peer support system to encourage adoption of concrete solutions to the problem of serious violence and abuse of female athletes;
• Raise and submit a petition on the issue to the EU that is participated by citizens in the European Union.
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
• IO1 – Publication “State of the Art and Best Practices in Tackling Violence against Female Athletes”;
• IO2 – Toolkit “Strategies and Tools for Empowering Athletes”;
• IO3 – Training Course “The Crucial Role of Sports Professionals in Combating Abuse, Violence and Discrimination against Women in Sports”;
• IO4 – Model “A Centralized Peer-to-Peer Helpdesk Model for Female Athletes”;
• IO5 – European Petition “Enhancing Safety Measures for Female Athletes in Europe”.
The EWA project is co-funded under the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
