Project Summary

“Learning through mobility of sports’ volunteers” (MOVING) is a Small Collaborative Partnership in the field of Sport aiming to support the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport organisations. The target group will be people aged 18+ interested in volunteering to explore the possibility of a career in sport as well as to further strengthen their competencies.The project seeks to answer the priority European policy challenge of supporting volunteering in the field of Sport as a vehicle of employability, economic growth and social engagement. Volunteering in the field of Sport represents a key component of European policy effort since the first organic elaboration of European policy in the sector set forth by the “European White Paper on Sport” (2007), which points out the positive contribution volunteering in Sport to strengthening active citizenship and providing as well as in providing opportunities of engagement and involvement in society, particularly to young people. The EC’s Communication on “Developing the European Dimension in Sport” (2011) underlines the contribution of Sport to the achievement of Europe 2020’s goals of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and new jobs also highlighting the voluntary character of the majority of the majority of the structures wherein Sport activity finds its concrete explication.MOVING will put in place activities to reach these objectives:- the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers and staff of non-profit sport organisations.- a European network to facilitate the possibility for volunteers and NGOs build their own experience in the field of sports via mobility- Fostering professional quality, attractiveness and operational results of grassroots Sport organizations through exchange of best practices and development of quality professionalism of staff and volunteers.