The project 'CROSSOVER: Promoting School Success through Sport' is a European project between organizations from Portugal, Italy, Romania, Cyprus and Turkey, under the Erasmus+ Programme Strategic Partnerships - Innovation in School Education, and funded by the European Commission.

 

CONTEXT

Raising school success is a key goal of every education system. educational success is presented as a prerequisite for social inclusion at individual level, and for the advancement of society as a whole.
While there is no doubt that education alone is not always enough to ensure such a progress, it is also true that it is absolutely necessary in order to make this change possible.

To develop our project concept we conducted a preliminary documentary research. Scientific evidence has been gathered on the contributions and benefits of Sport and Physical Activity in schools for both children and educational systems in several domains.

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MISSION

 

To develop an innovative empowerment program for students using Sport and Physical Activity as a tool to develop skills and key competences with a strong focus on personal, social and learning to learn competence, promoting school success, promoting social inclusion and preventing Early School Leaving (ESL).

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Strategic Objectives
1. To share knowledge and good practices between partners to develop an innovative approach, using Sport and Physical Activity as a tool to develop key competences;
2. To design and test an innovative empowerment program – CROSSOVER using Sport and Physical Activity to develop key skills and competences to promote school success, foster social inclusion and contribute to prevent ESL;
3. To conduct a correlational and case study to validate CROSSOVER program.

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The project is framed within a long-term perspective and planned with a view to achieve a multiplying effect and sustainable impact, and it has a good geographical balance, involving 5 countries, which will contribute to ensure a real European outreach of the project.

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