YOUTH INTEGRITY
AMBASSADORS PROJECT (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 to educate and empower young people with and without
intellectual disabilities to become sport integrity ambassadors.
In relation to the YIAP project,
2023 kicked off with a virtual
online gathering of the project
partner representatives to
discuss the training course
taking place in February
in Lisbon, Portugal, and
other matters related to the
progression of the project.
The YIAP Training Course took
place from February 9–15 and
had 36 young participants
attending the course that
aimed to teach skills and
give knowledge to the young
representatives for them to
become future sports integrity
ambassadors. During the
training week, the partners
also held a meeting to have
an update on the phases and
timeline of the project, have a
communications recap, outline
important future deadlines and
general indications, and discuss
the framework that must be
respected in the process of
implementation of the project,
as well as the YIAP toolkit,
which is a very important
outcome of the project.
Over the course of the training
week in Lisbon, the participants
took part in team-building
activities, educational talks
such as the talk on values in
sport given by representatives
of the Lithuanian Union of Sport
Federation and workshops on
understanding integrity led by
Paul Standaert, representative
of the European Lotteries and
Panathlon International. The
young participants took part in
interactive sessions about the
implementation of integrity in
sports and different important
points in leading an inclusive
project, open mic sessions,
shared personal stories and
competitive workout sessions.The young ambassadors
received information on different
topics, such as inclusion and
accessibility, and the importance
of and opportunity to implement
these values in their local
activities. Later in the week,
the participants were part of
an interactive role-play session
on the topic of Media Integrity
and Leadership, putting them
in the role of Journalist andinterviewees with the purpose of
bettering their understanding of
the influence and the role of the
media in integrity and sports in
general. The participants finished
the week by brainstorming ideas
for their local activities, creating
the communications part of the
campaign and working on how to
turn their ideas into reality, led
by EUSA and OPES and “How
to create a Communications
campaign” led by EUSA.In May, the Youth Integrity
Ambassadors took part in local
activities on two occasions:
the May Games and the Happy
Volunteer Day in Ljubljana.
At these events, the team
introduced their youth integrity
programme project and its goal
to educate and empower young
people as active ambassadors
of integrity in sports. EUSA
team managed to educate and
share the message of integrity
in sports with a great number
of students, both local and
from abroad, discussing topics,
such as: discrimination in
sports, sports for people with
disabilities, fair play, and doping.This September in Brussels,
during the European Week of
Sport, the YIAP project was also
presented on an event organised
by ENGSO and ENGSO Youth,
on the topics of “involvement,
inclusion and innovation”,
through sharing testimonials
from the YIAP ambassadors
on the valuable skills and
knowledge in promoting
integrity in sport they gained by
participating in the project.This project, funded by the
Erasmus+ Youth Programme of
the European Union, will run for
a period until April 2024, 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.118 / 119
PLEASE SEE
http://www.eusa.eu/projects/yiap
for more information