Between youth work and grassroots sport there is a great potential of exchanging practices and synergies in order to involve young people in youth communities and provide experience in developing citizenship skills. The project is aiming to create a structured way of sharing and collecting good practices both in grassroots sport (including school sport) and youth work and make a collection of inclusive practices using sport and physical education that provide learning for inclusion and citizenship. Four organisations (Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy) joined their resources and experience to promote and develop the role of sport in empowering citizenship skills of young people to build more inclusive and democratic communities, by sharing and disseminating the practices of using sport and physical education as a tool for inclusion. The project will mobilize and motivate hundreds practitioners form the fields of sport, education and youth work and will involve 24 practitioners to exchange practices, will collect and document 24 practices of how to use sport and physical activities to improve inclusion of discriminated young people in schools, grassroots sport teams and in youth communities. Four partners and their associated partners - from fields of sport, formal education and youth work - will work together closely throughout this project, through meetings and exchange of practices where new professional relationship and partnership can develop. Four national consultation meeting will strengthen the cooperation among the associated partners on the basis of discussing the developing the role of sport in inclusion. It will create a focus on this issue and the people coming from the three sectors can learn a lot from each other. The four national and one international Toolfair event will provide space for sharing and exchanging these practices among successful practitioners using sport and physical activities for developing skills and competence of young people in creating an inclusive community.An online tool will be created to collect and disseminate these practices, theory and methodology within the partner organisations and make them available in all the participating countries for a wider public of all three domains (online collection of practices and methods). The online tool will be a reference of resources and cooperation for sport, education and youth work with the focus of inclusion of discriminated young people.Furthermore the project would like to provide recommendations to national sport policy administration, European Commission and also to the Council of Europe to show and develop the potential role of sport communities in improving inclusion and combat discrimination. We would like to document new ideas, needs and proposals that could be relevant for policy makers in the field of sport, education and youth work and advocate for widely use the potentials of sport for improving inclusion of discriminated young people in youth communities. Education though sport for inclusion and citizenship has great potentials in physical education of schools, in training coaches and PE teachers, and working with disadvantaged young people where there is nothing else than a football field in the village. In this regard the project could provide further evidence to policy makers for taking measures to develop conditions and competence in the three sectors.

The ‘Youth Leaders Across Borders’ (YLAB) project was a strategic partnership between 4 high quality youth leadership organisations from the UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland.The project objectives for YLAB were;To produce new training resources that work across borders that1. Promote youth leadership, health improvement and citizenship by generating young leaders from disadvantaged communities who are well placed to get their peers moving2. Widen the appreciation and policy commitment to informal youth learning at all levels of Government and NGO’s 3. Support target group agencies to provide disadvantaged youth with access to innovative, informal life-long learning and training that develops soft transversal skills advantageous in the labour market: confidence, communication, leadership and reliability. 4. Pay particular attention to the gender gap.5. Develop practice across borders and internationalise youth leadership work by co-operatively producing an open education resource that works in the EU context. 6. Work towards the accreditation of a new youth training in programme to enhance internationalised youth work.The 30 month project has created open access, training resources that improve the leadership skills of young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities. The 6 modules enable young leaders to promote healthy behaviours to their peers, learning from Europe-wide best practice. Resources have been developed in 5 languages to increase access: English, Welsh, German, Swedish and Polish. The transnational nature of this project has added value. The unique training resource created, has stimulated 37 young people to be active and identify themselves as global citizens. The project has positively impacted on the views of these young people, in understanding their lives in a wider international context, increasing mobility, fostering intercultural dialogue, and increasing participation in European democratic life. The project had four participating organisations;StreetGames UK – The leading UK charity committed to ensuring disadvantaged young people and communities lead healthy active lifestyles. Engaging with over 1,000 locally trusted organisations, StreetGames engages over 30,000 young people aged 12-25 each year across the UK www.streetgames.org V4Sport Foundation Poland – With the mission to increase the number of people physically active in Poland, V4Sport works with both national and international partners to achieve this mission, basing its work around 5 pillars. Advocacy, research, innovative social campaigns, cross sectoral cooperation and capacity building. http://www.v4sport.eu/ Brandenburgische Sportjugend Germany (BSJ) – The 'Brandenburgische Sportjugend' is an umbrella organisation covering youth work and sport activities for young people from over 2600 clubs in Brandenburg. The work is guided by the aim to use sport as a tool for youth work. BSJ offers projects regarding sport, youth-work and social-youth-work including crime prevention, integration through sport, street soccer for tolerance, and voluntary opportunities including European Voluntary Service. http://sportjugend-bb.de/ SISU Idrottsutbildarna Sweden - SISU is the educational organisation attached to the Swedish Sport Confederation. Its main organisational aim is to work with sport clubs and sport Federations, developing and delivering education, training and development programmes. Working across 21 districts, over 3 million people are members of sport clubs in Sweden. http://www.sisuidrottsutbildarna.se/ The project consisted of the following activities;Delivery of 3 Intellectual outputs to develop youth leadership training, training resources and an interactive website; 5 Transnational Project Meetings; 4 Multiplier Events; 5 Learning/Teaching/Training Activities, including 1 blended mobility event and 4 train the trainer events.YLAB has resulted in high quality teaching and learning resources that are relevant and fit for purpose to enable young leaders to gain a better understanding of their leadership skills, potential and how they can apply themselves in international contexts. The project has achieved the following impact;• 37 young people, 78% of those with fewer opportunities, have accessed and shaped the training content, as well as develop themselves into international youth leaders• 63 international trainers have been trained to deliver the training, in addition to the 8 trainers that developed the training form the 4 partner organisations •240 people attended multiplier events, to understand the project and how it could be beneficial to them and their organisations and communities• Social media – direct followers 19,745 and followers of the key partners and influential individuals who promoted on our behalf 29,230• Newsletters/ press releases – across the partners’ circulation of circa 357,000The full project results can be found here; http://www.youthleadersacrossborders.eu/