The previous Erasmus+ Sport projects are now part of the new Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership (Key Action 2 – KA2) that allows organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas. They aim to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level.

Cooperation Partnerships in the field of sport are aimed at promoting the integrity of sport (anti-doping, the fight against match-fixing, protection of minors), supporting innovative approaches to implement EU principles on good governance in sport, EU strategies in the area of social inclusion and equal opportunities, encouraging participation in sport and physical activity (supporting the implementation of EU Physical Activity Guidelines, volunteering, employment in sport, as well as education and training in sport), and supporting the implementation of the EU guidelines on dual careers of athletes. These partnerships also include Small Collaborative Partnerships, aimed at encouraging social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport, promoting European traditional sports and games, supporting the mobility of volunteers, coaches, managers, and staff of non-profit sport organizations, and protecting athletes, especially the youngest, from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition conditions.

The University of Rome “Foro Italico” contributes as a Coordinator or Co-beneficiary to different projects in the specific field of sport, physical activity and health.

Active projects (Key Action 2 – KA2)

Past projects (Key Action 2 – KA2)

Description
The goal of the EdJCO project is to structure evidence- and eminence-base e-learning educational programme specifically tailored for judo coaches of older individuals. Thus contributing to the European policies on health-enhancing physical activity (World Health Organisation, 2016) and the minimum require- ments in skills and competencies for coaches (European Commission, 2020).In teaching safe falling techniques, judo could be conceived as a valuable preventive measure of the annual ~40,000 deaths from falls of European older adults (65+years), and of the fall-related degenerative sequences ultimately leading to death in older individuals (EuroSafe, 2016).The EdJCO project will benefit from a Team of academic and sports experts with a combined scientific and practical judo experience.The EdJCO project will achieve its educational objective by generating thorough evidence- and eminence- base research grounded on the opinions, needs and experiences of judo coaches, as well as on the experimental approaches of scholars in geriatric physical activity and related sciences. Based on the outcomes of this research phase, the EdJCO project will create modules for a specialisation course for certified judo coaches to be delivered on the IJF Academy online teaching platform. These modules will represent a platform for knowledge-exchange and educational resources, enhancing the health of the European and International judo community

Past projects (Key Action 2 – KA2)

Description
The project aims to implement the Dual Career adapted to the needs of disabled athletes through the development of a European-wide strategic partnership between universities and institutions to achieve the strengthening of social inclusion through sport and higher education. It is divided into the following 6 Intellectual Outputs (O). The O1 and O2 correspond to the research activities of the state of the art, which aim at detecting obstacles, needs and barriers of this group in their sports and academic careers, according to their degree of disability and personal background.This information will serve as a basis for the creation of a guide of good practices and the design and development of the contents and structure of the innovative online curriculum aimed at training expert mentors (O3). Based on this comprehensive curriculum, an interactive online open access course will be designed and developed.Its suitability, both in terms of structure, content and proper functioning, will be analysed through the implementation of a pilot course. The results and information obtained from this experience will serve to improve and adapt the initial proposal (O4).In addition to this, taking into account all the information collected and analysed in the project, as well as the main results of the project, a European handbook will be developed to disseminate the results and make possible the dual career of disabled university sportsmen and women in other territories (O5). Finally, an Observatory on Dual Career, Disability and Sport will be created to evaluate and monitor the development of this topic.

Description
The aim of the NewMiracle project is to develop a unique hands-on sport management training program – new sport leaders complimented with exclusive mentoring package and networking platform for young professionals who just starting sport administration career and to empower them strategically use their strengths and abilities while mastering their collaborative mindset.Apart the professional environment women require set of appropriate management skills and leadership characteristics necessary for young professional to perform certain tasks in different sport organizations. The direction could be towards encouragement the recognition of informal learning, as a complement to formal education through the acquisition of constructive skills and competences necessary to increase the capabilities and knowledge – new sport leaders, in connection with good governance, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Description
HAPPY BONES project wants to promote physical activity for women who aged 50-65 by offering an innovative exercise protocol to involve them in a moderate physical activity and as a consequence, strengthen personal resources and above all, to do a physical activity necessary for their well being. Thus, the project through the development of its exercise protocol aims to promote the importance of health-enhancing physical activity through increased participation in exercise for all. For this reason the training will be proposed in two different contexts: at the workplace (in order to elimate the barriers related to mobility form work to the gym, lack of time and money) and to a Sport Association (avoiding only the economic barrier).

Description
Inclusive Karate is a new perspective to decrease sedentary lifestyle and increase self-confidence in Down Syndrome. IKONS intends to exploit the special role that sport can play for people with DS as an important contribution towards social cohesion and more integrated societies, supporting the ‘sport for all’ principle by increasing people with DS participation in sport at non competitive level and paying special attention to social inclusion in sports of disadvantaged groups.

Description
The project aimed proactively change the attitude towards an athletes’ dual career by deliberately shaping a positive image and encouraging sports organiations to pursue the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Dual Careers of Athletes and to generate evidence-based research data on Dual Careers of Athletes in Project Partner Countries. The main objectives of the project were: – to do a comprehensive analysis of related scientific articles, athletes’ dual career image formed by media, gap between practice and EU Guidelines on DC of Athletes & different used models of implementation of athletes’ DC;- to develop recommendations for the implementation of the EU Guidelines on DC of Athletes and Strategy of raising awareness through media, – to develop and implement online educational program for athletes and sport organisations.

Description
The LifeAge Project has fostered synergy with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies to promote sport and physical activity, in close relationship with the Active Ageing policy as defined by the European Commission: it means helping people stay in charge of their own lives for as long as possible as they age and, where possible, to contribute to the economy and society. As expressed in the Guiding Principles for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (The Employment Committee – The Social Protection Committee), “Older people make a significant contribution to the economy and society, but as their health and education levels improve over time, their contributions can be further enhanced”

Description
The basic view of DANCING WITH HEALTH is that sport for cancer patients has a double role. The first is connected with physical education, movement and health information, concepts contained in the primary directions of the EU. The other role is connected with learning and education. Through training, patients can be supported by skilled experts who can properly accompany them in their difficult path of treatments and recovery.Studies have shown that physical activity is known to increase special neurotransmitter substances in the brain (endorphins), which create a state of wellbeing. And total body movement such as dance enhances the functions of other body systems, such as circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, and muscular systems. Today dance/movement therapy is a well recognised form of complementary therapy used in hospitals as well as at the comprehensive clinical cancer centres.

Description
The primary objective of this project is to improve good governance in university sport, influencing how the aims for university sport are set and achieved to optimise and monitor performance. As part of this, the aims are to increase sports participation and to promote voluntary activity in sport, the latter being the ultimate aim of the Erasmus+ Sport projects (European Commission 2016, p.222). The aim of the program is to help success the objective of promote and improve good governance in sport through actions that have the support of the EC.

Description
The objective of the project adresses the intercultural challenges, which most of the countries in Europe are facing nowadays. The project aims to improve quality of pre-service and in-service education by strengthening the professional profile of both sport related teaching professions, preparing teachers and coaches for inclusive intercultural education in and through physical education and sport. The aim of the project was to help address the intercultural challenges schools, clubs, teachers and coaches are facing. It aimed to provide innovative evidence-based intercultural pedagogy in physical education and coaching and thereby improving the quality of pre- and in-service education.

Description
The project aims to improve quality of pre-service and in-service education by strengthening the professional profile of both sport related teaching professions, preparing teachers and coaches for inclusive intercultural education in and through physical education and sport.

Description
The MEW (movement/environment/well-being) project aims to establish a “European partnership for health” to promote an “Action Model” (MA), developed by the project, as a proposal to counter sedentary lifestyle and demonstrate the economic savings and individual and social that is generated by assuming active behaviours in daily life. The project involves the publication of a book that can convey the value of the “Model of Action” elaborated. The project consisted of two phases:

1. “my_tasks” campaign
The “my_tasks” campaign involved 200 recipients, adults (30 / 55 yrs, males and females, equally) including: 40 Italians; 35 Germans; 25 Portuguese; 25 Irish; 25 Romanian; 25 Latvian; 25 British. Recipients will be given an “activity kit” with the necessary tools and information for:

• the testing of a 6-month “activity protocol,” walking and cycling, with the guidance of a trainer and monitoring with medical and health checks to verify the benefit of the motor activity;
• the evaluation of the “activity protocol,” by individual interview at the end of the course on personal well-being and the possible social impact on the environment for the lifestyles assumed by the recipients;
• the appointment, end of the path, of “sport volunteer” with the task of spreading the MA and be part of the “European health partnership”.

2. “our_tasks” campaign
The “our_tasks” campaign included the implementation of 10 Multiplier sport events. The Multiplier sport events is a one-day sport event to be held in an urban or suburban area with trekking, biking or walking routes, open to citizenship for the purpose of promote motor activity, sustainable mobility and project guidelines that will be distributed to participants.

Description
SAFE YOU aims to dynamically contribute to anti-doping in fitness and amateur sports. SAFEYOU involves the synergy between academic experts in doping use, and non-academic partners with a strong policy-making orientation, and vested interest and strong commitment to promote amateur sports, and ensure that sports are safeguarded against emerging threats, such as doping. The aim of the SAFE YOU+ project is to extend the existing SAFEYOU TOOL to competitive athletes.

Description
The project objective was to establish the European Network of Integrated Football for contributing to National policies and initiatives on large scale in order to promote this new sport activity and the integrated sport. The project outputs are the definition of training models for sport tecnicians of integrated football and for referees of integrated football. On 29th September (2017) the foundation ceremony of the European Network for the promotion of Integrated Football will take place at Spazio Europa- the Public Space of the Information Office of the European Parliament and of the European Commission Representation in Italy. Integrated Football is the new sports discipline which allows a sports competition of disabled and non-disabled athletes jointly, made possible by a set of rules conceived by CSEN and spread in Europe through the European project “A new Frontier of Sport for All” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Sport Programme.
Thanks to EC grants, the Network has already reached Germany, Portugal, Slovakia, Lithuania and Bulgaria, which, together with CSEN, the Foro Italico University and Coop Mens@Corpore in Italy, have established national sports associations for the diffusion of Integrated Football.
In the course of the project, trainings for coaches and referees of Integrated Football have been held. Today there is a register which includes members from six European countries.

Description
The project has been approved in 2014 call and respond to one of the three EU general objectives to promote and support the good governance in sport and dual career of athletes.Therefore, the specific objective of our ESTPORT project was to develop, transfer and implement an innovative ‘EU Sport Tutorship programme’ in different European Universities, involving public authorities, sport-related organisations and educational actors, as a key stakeholders to accomplish the EU Guidlines on Dual Careers for Athletes. For more information download the Handbook.