An Erasmus+ funded project, Small Cooperative Partnerships
Countries involved
Sweden
Croatia
Spain
Goals and impact
Sharks is leading a consortium composed of a Croatian sport club (Novi Jelkoveć), and a Spanish organisation (MAS). The project aims at raising awareness about the importance of inclusion of non-binary children in sport activities, underlining the principle that sport must be seen as a fundamental right that everyone must be entitled to exercise. The world of sport is currently dominated by the concept of binary categories (female and male genders) and by the androcentric perception that excludes transgender and intersex athletes.
The project wants to support identified sport pilot organisations to strengthen their policies of inclusion and diversity in the youth world of sport. Tailored awareness raising events will support sport organisations in understanding the importance of inclusion of all children in the world of sport. Currently, many infrastructures exist and policies are in place that prevent inclusion of athletes in sport activities and do not allow them to benefit their fundamental right to practice sport, as a tool for well-being, proper physical growth and integrated social life.
The overall objective is to raise awareness of the inclusion of young athletes in sport activities through a set of workshops and with the organization of local sport events for inclusion. The project will also create an ICT platform to share documentation and information among the sport organizations at pan-European level. In the final event foreseen at the project end, the project stakeholders will have the opportunity to share their experiences, difficulties, results, and lesson learnt achieved through the project.
Main project milestones
Three pilot sports organisations have been identified.
In Sweden: School Sport Association at the International School of Stockholm.
In Croatia: Novi Jelkovec.
In Spain: Universitario Bilbao Rugby.
Collaboration with NGOs is essential to provide quality information and knowledge sharing.
In Sweden: Fryshuset.
In Croatia: KoleTIRV.
In Spain: Naizen.
A Rapid Assessment and Training Needs Analysis to detect existing capacities and needs.
In Sweden, on 8 April Frusyhuset met the Sport Association.
In Croatia, and in Spain, the project partner and the NGOs are developing a questionnaire.
Awareness and information raising on inclusion.
In Sweden, on 19 May 2025, Sharks supported the organisation of a workshop where Fryshuset shared with the Sport Association important policy knowledge and practices to strengthen inclusion policies.
In Croatia,
In Spain,
Organisation of sport events to enhance inclusion among young athletes.
In Sweden, on 10 June 2025, the Sport Association organised a sport event for the children of the International School of Stockholm, part of its activities curricula. The Sport Association took the chance to enhance the TCiS project visibility and strengthen inclusion through sports. Giveaways (t-shirts and bags) with the logo of the TCiS project and of Erasmus+ were distributed to the participants. The sport activities were targeted to all children, without categorising them as female-, male- or mixed-groups activities, in order to underline the importance of inclusion in sport.
In Croatia,
In Spain,
Development of an electronic exchange platform.
The aim of the ICT tool is to ensure information and communication exchange among the countries’ stakholders.
Each pilot sport organisation will nominate a “Coordinator for Gender Equality” (CGE), who will be responsible to ensure dialogue and exchange of policy documents, experiences, best practice and difficulties with the other countries’ organisations, with the aim to support them in strengthening inclusion.
Project final event.
The project final event will take place in Bilbao on 27 September 2025. The aim will be to share with each other and with the public the individual countries’ experiences, achievements and progress, but also difficulties and obstacles encounered. The final event will represent also an important opportunity to promote the aim of the EC funded Erasmus+ programme.
