Orient - Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering - CURRICULUM

Publikacije 17/06/2022
Orient - Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering - CURRICULUM
This document was developed within the project ORIENT – Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering (622532-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-SPO-SCP), a 30-month project co-funded by the Erasmus+ SPORT programme of the European Union. ORIENT stems from the idea of bringing together young people from different backgrounds through a basic sport: orienteering. The project aims to enhance social inclusion and strengthen community-building and capacity-building by creating opportunities for young people from diverse social and cultural groups to socialise and develop new skills. ORIENT’s approach is to gather a large number of participants, strengthening cooperation among stakeholders—namely sports coaches and representatives of civil society organisations. This approach will equip sports coaches and CSO workers with innovative methods to encourage the participation of vulnerable young people in community-level sports activities. Through the practice of outdoor activities, young people will be encouraged to reflect on issues of social inclusion while discovering urban and natural local contexts. The ORIENT curriculum is intended as a learning tool for trainers to integrate orienteering into their youth work practices and to organise orienteering activities aimed at improving social inclusion and cohesion among different social and cultural groups of young people who are at risk of social exclusion. The ORIENT curriculum represents the main training material for sports coaches and CSO workers, from which they will learn and which they will refer to when implementing orienteering mapping activities.