YOUTH INTEGRITY
AMBASSADOR PROGRAM (YIAP)
YIAP is a cooperative partnership with the aim to trigger a positive
change within the sport sector and create a culture of integrity across
Europe and to educate and empower young people with and without
intellectual disability to become sport integrity ambassadors.
Through the main goal
of this program and its
implementation, young people
will be trained to promote
positive change in the sports
sector, to be the main actors for
building a safe environment in
the sports sector, making more
participatory spaces for young
people within it.
Main topics and objectives
of the YIAP project will be to
develop key competences of
young people to take an active
roles in their societies by
promoting and disseminating
a culture of integrity in their
sport communities, to take part
of an educational program that
would serve to equip the youth
with the right skills and digital
tools, to gather them around
the common values as well as
to train young people to actively
identify, prevent and react
against dishonesty and crooked
practices within the sport sector
and in society at large.
On August 25-26, in the capital
of Lithuania, Vilnius, the kick
off meeting of the Youth
Integrity Ambassador Program
(YIAP) took place, being the
first TPM meeting of this
project, supported by Erasmus+
programme in the field of youth,
focusing on volunteering and
good governance.Bigger portion of the meeting
was dedicated to gathering more
information about the project
results and responsibilities of
each partner organization and
sharing ideas of best practices
and ways of monitoring the
evaluation and the learning
framework of the project. The
representatives talked about
the foreseen activities and tools
that are going to be created
and organized by the partner
organizations, such as the
creation of the Youth Integrity
Ambassador toolkit, the
Youth Integrity Ambassadors
Campaign and the project
impact video.After implementing these
goals, the next goal will be to
send them back to their local
communities and to be the
ambassadors that will try to
engage other young people
in future and implement theresults of the project through
inclusivity and teamwork.On 28 of September in Brussels,
during the European Week
of Sport, the Youth Integrity
Ambassadors Project (YIAP)
had its second meeting in
Brussels. This meeting served
as an opportunity for the Youth
and Sport Integrity Expert
Committee (YSIEC) to meet and
discuss the planned activities.The YSIEC includes one
youth expert and one young
representative from each
partner organisation. As
part of this Sport Integrity
Expert Committee, EUSA was
represented by Ms Hristina
Hristova, in the role of youth
expert and Mr Jan Martin
Jamnik in the role of youth
representative. The goal of the
committee is to prepare the
training course for the young
participants that will later enrol
in the YIAP programme.During the meeting, the
committee focused on
identifying the key competences
and knowledge to equip youngintegrity ambassador, create
an educational curriculum to
empower young people, by
using non-formal education
methods and building a network
of young individuals connected
through Europe. YIAP aims, at
implementing a Training Course
that could give to 36 young
participants the competences
and the tools to be Integrity
Ambassadors in Sport.YIAP is funded by the Erasmus+
Youth Programme of the
European Union, and it will
run for a period of 24 months
from May 2022 to April 2024.
The YIAP project is led by the
European Non-Governmental
Sports Organisation (ENGSO)
with ENGSO Youth (SWE) and
Swedish Sports Confederation
(SWE), partnering with EUSA
Institute (SLO), Special Olympics
Europe-Eurasia Foundation –
SOEE (IRL), RF-SISU Smäland
(SWE), Portuguese Sport
Confederation (POR), Lithuanian
Union Of Sport Federation –
LSFS (LTU), Organisation for
Sports Education – OPES (ITA)
and associating partners The
European Lotteries.PLEASE SEE
http://www.eusa.eu/projects/yiap
for more information