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BSDA HELD A DISSEMINATION EVENT UNDER THE ORIENT PROJECT
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.
During the event the project results were presents, highlighting the process and procedures for their achievement, development and implementation, as well as:
• Presentation of good practices in orienteering, collected in the Anthology – IO1 ORIENT;
• Presentation of IO2 ORIENT Curriculum, its features and content (including Open Educational Resources);
• Presentation of IO3 Gears and Ideas: orienteering route toolkit and orienteering kit demonstration;
• Presentation of IO4 ORIENT Compendium and the implemented collaboration process during the local workshops and orienteering competition;
• Presentation of IO5 ORIENT Manifesto, addressed to stakeholders and politicians.
THE PROJECT PURSUES THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1) Promoting social inclusion and participation of vulnerable young people and other local community members by using orienteering as a multi-goal activity;
2) Enhancing sport trainers’, and Civil Society Organisations’ workers abilities to foster social inclusion at local level by using orienteering as a grassroot sport able to encourage participation and ownership of shared values;
3) Raising awareness among local communities, stakeholders and policy-makers of the value of sport as a tool for inclusion in order to foster solidarity and participation as well as cohesion and inclusion policies.
INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF ORIENT PROJECT ARE:
The project promotes a number of innovation features, namely:
1) ORIENT will propose an approach based on the use of orienteering as a means to enhance social inclusion by creating concrete opportunities for vulnerable young people to work as a team;
2) The choice of orienteering as a grass-root initiative able to enhance the connection between the members of a same community, both in rural and urban environments, is itself a significant innovation feature;
3) The whole ORIENT project fosters participative and co-creative approaches involving the target groups directly in face-to-face education and sport activities;
4) The involvement of both sport trainers and CSOs’ workers together with the set up of local ORIENT networks (T5.1) in the project also represents an innovative feature: indeed the two groups will be able to exchange their respective knowledge (i.e. technical knowledge on sport and know-how on tackling social exclusion at local level), becoming complementary to one another.
ORIENT project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
• Presentation of good practices in orienteering, collected in the Anthology – IO1 ORIENT;
• Presentation of IO2 ORIENT Curriculum, its features and content (including Open Educational Resources);
• Presentation of IO3 Gears and Ideas: orienteering route toolkit and orienteering kit demonstration;
• Presentation of IO4 ORIENT Compendium and the implemented collaboration process during the local workshops and orienteering competition;
• Presentation of IO5 ORIENT Manifesto, addressed to stakeholders and politicians.
THE PROJECT PURSUES THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1) Promoting social inclusion and participation of vulnerable young people and other local community members by using orienteering as a multi-goal activity;
2) Enhancing sport trainers’, and Civil Society Organisations’ workers abilities to foster social inclusion at local level by using orienteering as a grassroot sport able to encourage participation and ownership of shared values;
3) Raising awareness among local communities, stakeholders and policy-makers of the value of sport as a tool for inclusion in order to foster solidarity and participation as well as cohesion and inclusion policies.
INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF ORIENT PROJECT ARE:
The project promotes a number of innovation features, namely:
1) ORIENT will propose an approach based on the use of orienteering as a means to enhance social inclusion by creating concrete opportunities for vulnerable young people to work as a team;
2) The choice of orienteering as a grass-root initiative able to enhance the connection between the members of a same community, both in rural and urban environments, is itself a significant innovation feature;
3) The whole ORIENT project fosters participative and co-creative approaches involving the target groups directly in face-to-face education and sport activities;
4) The involvement of both sport trainers and CSOs’ workers together with the set up of local ORIENT networks (T5.1) in the project also represents an innovative feature: indeed the two groups will be able to exchange their respective knowledge (i.e. technical knowledge on sport and know-how on tackling social exclusion at local level), becoming complementary to one another.
ORIENT project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
