Speakers
Description
The workshop will showcase the aims, actions and results of the Erasmus + project PINBALL – Preventing bullyINg in and through footBALL, which involves five National Football Associations (i.e., the Finnish, Croatian, Greek, Portuguese and Swiss ones), the UEFA Foundation for Children, the anti-bullying NGO Friends, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and ForModena, a training association.
PINBALL aims to prevent and tackle bullying within youngsters’ (aged 10-18 years) football teams. To do so, the consortium developed and tested a freely accessible methodology, consisting of a set of eight on-field activities revolving around three key objectives, namely 1) providing coaches with skills to fight bullying and create a cohesive and supportive football environment; 2) eliminating bullying episodes from children’s and adolescents’ football teams; and 3) promoting a culture based on sports values against bullying in the EU.
Via participatory modalities, the workshop will:
• Present PINBALL’s aims and actions throughout the three years of project development
• Showcase and explain the final online PINBALL course, where the PINBALL methodology and materials are available in eight languages, for practitioners (football coaches, coaches of different sports, teachers, and educators) to implement them within their teams/classes/youth groups.
• Present the results of implementing the PINBALL methodology with dozens of teams in partner countries, including video testimonials.
Overall, the workshop will allow a full comprehension of the project and offer practical tools that can be easily adopted and used within different contexts to (quite literally!) tackle bullying while youngsters play and have fun.
Keywords
Bullying prevention; Anti-bullying Intervention; Football; Youth sport
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Mixed |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Not applicable |
