Understanding through Sport is a European youth initiative aiming to address the challenges of social exclusion and marginalization of young people while raising awareness on the importance of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, solidarity, and inclusion. Sport as a worldwide known tool for tackling inequalities and social exclusion gives the base of our initiative designed by young people for young people. Sport and physical activities have the power to promote European values and to develop the situation of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The objective of the Understanding through Sport project is to foster these European values, such as respect, tolerance, solidarity and to improve young participants’ soft skills through the methodology of Education through sport. 

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The main objectives of the project are: 

• Raise awareness on the importance of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, and tolerance among young Europeans of different origins;

• Draw attention to the importance of social inclusion especially concerning young people from disadvantaged cultural and ethnic minority groups;

• Develop young people’s skills and competencies to become more active, sporty, and health-conscious European citizens;

• Make young people advocates of inclusion, tolerance, dialogue, and active, healthy living in their local communities;

• Provide opportunities for young people with fewer opportunities through sport-based non-formal education.

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