On the 6 and 7 of October 2022, Partners from participating countries met for the first time in Thessaloniki (Greece), hosted by the University of Thessaly – the project coordinator – to present their organisations and expertise; moreover, they started discussing about the implementation of the project activities and next actions.
The CICEE-T project partnership will work with the development of the first culturally informed digital coaching education toolbox on safe sport to address the common need of combating psychological, physical, and sexual forms of interpersonal violence in sport in a seemly way for 6 countries of the north Mediterranean region.
The project will attempt to overcome the limitations of the common practice of ‘importing and translating’ centrally developed guidelines (e.g., from IOC, EC, northern EU) with a culturally informed approach delivered in national languages and built bottom up considering key cultural characteristics of the Mediterranean Region partners and the needs of their coaches for Safe Sport coach education.
The project intends to enhance the skills, competences, and knowledge of sport coaches in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Spain and Portugal on Safe Sport and safeguarding sport from violence.
Specifically, the kick-off meeting was a great occasion to strength the cooperation between partners countries and to talk about the first steps of the project defining the methodology of the field research cycle.
The consortium is indeed already working on a mapping of Safe Sport coach education initiatives of the Mediterranean Region partners through qualitative / quantitative research on Safe Sport. The core aim of the study is to identify cultural barriers manifested in the societies and sport along with the beliefs that formulate coaches’ attitudes and intentions for receiving Safe Sport coach education and delivering Safe Sport coaching in partners countries.
The consortium is also working on the visual identity of the project and on the development of communication and dissemination strategy.
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