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RAINBOW YOUTH FOR
SPORTING EQUALITY
Rainbow Youth for Sporting Equality (RYSE) is a
multilateral European project which looks to improve
experiences for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) young people in sport.
The project aims to improve
experiences for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, intersex
and queer (LGBTIQ+) young
people in sport, ensuring
that sport offers the same
opportunities to LGBTIQ+ young
people as it does to others.
To achieve this, project partners
will work with LGBTIQ+ young
people to create a charter of
inclusion for youth sport and
thereafter train sport educators
on the charter, thus improving
their skills in supporting
LGBTIQ+ young people in sport.
The aim is then to encourage
improvements in social
inclusion and equal opportunity
across different youth sport
settings and develop a cross-
border online training tool
that maximises reach and
sustainability.Partners will consider various
settings where youth sports
educators operate such as
schools, colleges, universities
and youth groups, and will
take a co-produced approach
where young people outline
what they expect from an
inclusive and non-discriminatory
sports environment to create a
Rainbow Sports charter.The project will then go on to
train youth sports educators
in how to create such an
environment. In both aspects,
the project will work across
different youth sports settings,targeting both formal and non-
formal education settings.The project team will then
distil the training into an online
training module which will be
presented alongside the charter
at a final project conference to
a group of multipliers/managers
and policy makers within youth
sport education settings from
each partner country for them
to use and disseminate the
findings.Project partners include LEAP
Sports Scotland (GBR), Queer
Sport Split (CRO) and the
European University Sports
Association Institute (SLO). PLEASE SEE
eusa.eu/projects/ryse
for more informationCo-funded by the
Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union