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

Publikacije 17/06/2022
Orient - Young explorers re-discover  local communities through orienteering - Anthology
The present document has been developed in the framework of the project ORIENT – Young explorers re-discover local communities through orienteering (622532-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-SPO-SCP), a 30-month project co-financed by the Erasmus + SPORT programme of the European Union. ORIENT stems from the idea of bringing together young people from different backgrounds through a particular grassroots sport: orienteering. The project aims to enhance social inclusion and to foster capacity and community building by creating opportunities for young people from different social and cultural groups to socialize and develop new skills. ORIENT adopts a multi-stakeholder approach, boosting cooperation among stakeholders, namely sport trainers and representatives from civil societies organisation. This approach will equip sports trainers’ and CSO’s workers with innovative methods to encourage the participation of vulnerable young people in sports activities at community level. Through the practice of outdoor activities, young people will be encouraged to reflect on social inclusion issues while discovering urban and natural local contexts. This document aims at providing evidence of the effectiveness of orienteering as a sport able to enhance social inclusion and to encourage a sense of community. It will present a collection of good practices on orienteering for social inclusion, providing a methodological focus and analysing the lessons learnt from a desk and field research conducted in Italy, Greece, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Bulgaria. The ORIENT Curriculum will set the foundations for the implementation of the activities envisioned by the project.