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, in-
tersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) young people
in sport by 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 sup-
porting LGBTIQ+ young people in sport.
The aim is then to encourage improve-
ments 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 train-
ing 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 As-
sociation (SLO).The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+
Programme of the European Union.