EUSA Year Magazine 2020-21

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 started in 2019 as a
small collaborative partnership
project which 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
have worked with LGBTIQ+
young people to create a
charter of inclusion for youth
sport and thereafter trained
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 considered various

settings where youth sports

educators operate such as

schools, colleges, universities

and youth groups, and took a

co-produced approach where

young people outlined what

they expected from an inclusive

and non-discriminatory sports

environment to create a

Rainbow Sports charter.

The project will then look to

train youth sports educators

in how to create such an

environment. In both aspects,

the project works across

different youth sports settings,

targeting both formal and

nonformal education settings.

The project team will then

distill the training into an

online training module which

also included video material

and personal experiences. The

online toolkit 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.

Topics will focus on gendered

sport, changing rooms,

language, consequences and

statement of inclusion.

Project partners include LEAP

Sports Scotland (GBR), Queer

Sport Split (CRO) and the

European University Sports

Association Institute (SLO).

The project is co-funded by the

Erasmus+ Programme of the

European Union.

PLEASE SEE

eusa.eu/projects/ryse

for more information

Co-funded by the

Erasmus+ Programme

of the European Union

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