YOUAca 2.0 – HEALTH LIFE ACADEMY

next generation of young leaders

CST Youaca

Project YOUAca 2.0, with a partnership of 5 National sports organizations, coordinated by an International Sports Confederation, from 6 Eu Countries (Austria, Italy, Spain, Finland, Estonia and Croatia) aims at delivering the first edition of Youth Academy of Grassroots Sport, preparing a new generation of young leaders in grassroots sport at national and international level. This objective will be pursued implementing the Academy in order to develop skills of youngsters and young adults in grassroots sports management by the delivering of the training modules developed during the first edition of the project.

Specific objectives

To develop skills of sport management into the field of grassroots sport for youngsters and young adults
To foster capacity building and education for staff members and leaders of the sports organization by developing a training toolkit for sport managers operators
To improve good governance in sport (organizations), specifically in relation to the investment on educational programs
To promote sport itself as a tool for activating the participation of youngsters and young adults together with adults and senior leaders into sports organizations, through the promotion of coordinated voluntary activities.
To encourage social inclusion and raise equal opportunities in sport organisations by supporting the implementation of EU strategies.

Main goals

Creation of personal social networks and long-term cooperation
Young people experience inclusion and gain a strong peer group from other participating countries.
This group can share ideas from good practices as well as help in problem situations
Achieved competence and networking create your own path to apply for additional training and get a profession.
To get all the participants to continue working in local clubs and in various managerial positions in different levels.
To get new players and fresh perspectives for developing their own organization’s activities.

YOUAca is a project adressed to young people aimed at developing skills of management in grassroots sport. Since nowadays it’s important to communicate our ideas, activities, projects or events, YOUAca delivered a training module in order to develop skills on how to promote and communicate grassroots sport activities and events.