The project aims to prevent and address sexual violence in non-professional sports by empowering athletes and LGBTQI+ athletes, training sports professionals and developing effective mechanisms for prevention, safe first response, reporting and referral within sports clubs and academies.
Target Groups
- Athletes aged 16-30, with an emphasis on individuals at increased risk of harassment, abuse of power, stigma or retaliation.
- Sports professionals and staff
- Sports clubs and academies, with the aim of integrating specific safeguarding policies and procedures
Key Activities
- Development of a bilingual Safe Sport Toolkit, providing practical guidance on issues including consent, personal boundaries, grooming, power dynamics, sexual and digital harassment, recognition of warning signs, safe first response and referral
- Development of a common policy template for the prevention of and response to sexual violence, as well as 7 tailored implementation plans for an equal number of sports clubs and academies
- Training of at least 30 sports professionals and staff
- 4 experiential empowerment workshops for at least 30 athletes aged 16-30
- Operation of a mobile implementation and support team, which will visit at least 5 additional sports organisations and engage at least 25 professionals, supporting the transfer and implementation of the project’s tools and procedures
- 4 knowledge-exchange activities with Common Goal and the International Sport and Culture Association
- Awareness-raising activities at 4 sporting events, aiming to directly reach 1,000 people
- Launch event with 30 participants
- 15 online communication activities
- Bilingual digital information hub
- Final event with 50 participants