ENGSO Youth/CoE study session: sport activities as tool for inclusion

The Study session "youth voices through inclusive sports" supported by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe, succesfully took place from the 4th - 10th July 2010. Gathering 34 young people youth sport activists the study session used non-formal education to offer the participants a plaform for exchange and understand inclusion, exclusion, marginalisation and question the role of sport activities as tool for inclusion. During the week participants took part in numerous games, activities and exchanges which enabled them to look at sport activities more critically in terms of their 'inclusivness'. In the end of the program, participants had the opportunity to create their own activities for inclusion, these are of course a first attempt and not final tools of inclusion through sport.

We will post these online through our website, so keep posted and we encourage the youth out there who participated or did not have this opportunity, to look at the activities and develop or adapt them to the needs of their local realities.

Overall, a week of high energy, great people, great atmosphere and great exchanges, thank you to all invovled and to the CoE for this more than successful event.