📋 Tender Overview
Practitioners and policymakers have regularly highlighted sport’s potential contribution to inclusion, education, equality, and common values. Recognising this, the European sport sector, and especially the burgeoning sport for development (SFD) movement, increasingly work towards goals related to promoting education in and through sport, as well as promoting equality in and through sport. Of note, numerous organisations aim to promote employability, shared values, peace and inclusion. To do so, these organisations often deliver sport and social activities aimed at bringing different groups together, fostering social relations, encouraging civic participation and developing life skills. Yet a crucial challenge has emerged for many of these programmes. Though they aim to promote inclusion, diversity and common values by working directly with often vulnerable or at-risk groups, their impact can be limited by a lack of alignment and support from policy or institutional actors in their communities. This is problematic for two reasons. First, there may be a simple lack of awareness or alignment between relevant policies and the programmes being delivered, which in turn undermines the impact and sustainability of the programme. Second, policies or environmental conditions within a community may actively work against the outcomes targeted by the programmes. The Policy Advocacy for Sport and Society (PASS) project seeks to address this gap by developing a comprehensive set of tools and resources to raise awareness and capacity for policy advocacy within the crucial and growing sport and social development sector. As such, the PASS project will support European sport and social development actors so that they can increase their participation and engagement in democratic life, and enable them to use that engagement to sustainably promote education, equality and European values in and through sport.
