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Education Through Sports Ambassador Training

„Sportsmanship can not be thought, it can be inculcated in ones persona through only one thing, called SPORTS.” Sandeep Sahajpal

Have you heard about the „Sport Values in Every Classroom” (Sport Values Toolkit) educational partnership?

The programme supports active learning, complement cognitive skills and give students increasing amounts of responsibility, and enhance their level of concentration and participation.

 

Fairness

 

Sport can teach values such as fairness, teambuilding, equality, discipline, inclusion, perseverance and respect. The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) is one of the main partners of this UNESCO founded project among the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE), International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

The 12 months long small collaborative Erasmus+ project „Education Through Sport Network” (ETSN), organized by Champion's Factory is built on the above mentioned Sport Values Toolkit initiative, involving 5 organizations from 5 different countries with the aim to reinforce an existing informal ETS network and to develop it into an open and transparent transnational community of organisations and experts, who actively use the Education Through Sports methodology (ETS).

During the training course Education Through Sports Ambassadors from all over Europe (Hungary- Budapest Association for International Sports, United Kingdom-SARI, Italy-Mine Vaganti, Bulgaria- Champions Factory) have learned the most important aspects of the Education Through Sports methodology and how to use it on an every-day basis therefore they stepped on the path of becoming an ETSN Ambassador.