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BSDA HELD A FOCUS GROUP UNDER THE EWA PROJECT
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.
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.
The innovative aspect of the project lies in the attempt of boosting the engagement of each single beneficiary in taking charge of the problem and supporting each other.
In the focus group, the prepared training materials of the project /Handbook "Strategies and tools for empowerment of athletes"/, the future strategy for the dissemination of the intellectual results, the current state and good practices in the fight against violence against female athletes were discussed, as well as the training course on the role of sports professionals in combating violence and discrimination against women in sports.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
• Network of Beneficiaries: Spreading of empowerment and mutual support actions of female athletes of all ages;
• Education of Professionals: Exploitation of educational resources and courses for professionals that work with female athletes:
• Sports professionals: coaches, trainers, fitness coaches, sports clubs operators and executives, masseurs, tutors, sports scientists, talent scouts, agents, referees;
• Education professionals: physical education teachers, professional fitness coaches, mentors;
• Health professionals: nutritionists, psychologists, physiotherapists, psychomotor therapists;
• Media professionals: reporters;
• Security professionals: Attorney General of Sport;
• Centralized Peer-to-Peer Helpdesk Testing;
• Formulation of a Petition on “Safety Measures for Female Athletes in Europe”.
The EWA project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
The innovative aspect of the project lies in the attempt of boosting the engagement of each single beneficiary in taking charge of the problem and supporting each other.
In the focus group, the prepared training materials of the project /Handbook "Strategies and tools for empowerment of athletes"/, the future strategy for the dissemination of the intellectual results, the current state and good practices in the fight against violence against female athletes were discussed, as well as the training course on the role of sports professionals in combating violence and discrimination against women in sports.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
• Network of Beneficiaries: Spreading of empowerment and mutual support actions of female athletes of all ages;
• Education of Professionals: Exploitation of educational resources and courses for professionals that work with female athletes:
• Sports professionals: coaches, trainers, fitness coaches, sports clubs operators and executives, masseurs, tutors, sports scientists, talent scouts, agents, referees;
• Education professionals: physical education teachers, professional fitness coaches, mentors;
• Health professionals: nutritionists, psychologists, physiotherapists, psychomotor therapists;
• Media professionals: reporters;
• Security professionals: Attorney General of Sport;
• Centralized Peer-to-Peer Helpdesk Testing;
• Formulation of a Petition on “Safety Measures for Female Athletes in Europe”.
The EWA project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
