"The Facilitators’ network aims to be a programme that promotes the social and educational function of sport. On this basis, we intend to create the FIT2FIT campaign. This is a transnational project organised by IUNA in partnership with several organisations interested in promoting sport as a means for professional and personal growth and the civic participation of young people by means of training young university students to create social entrepreneurship projects.The title of the campaign is a pun on the word ""Fit"" which in English has two meanings ""Fit” as in keeping ""Fit"" and “fitting in”. Within this context it conveys 2 messages: 1) promotion of healthy lifestyle habits and, 2) the need for inclusion within society. It reminds us of the idea that through sport it is possible to “fit in” or include young people in society.Sport must be seen as much more than just physical activity. As non-formal education it can help young people to develop healthy lifestyles and also teach valuable life skills and help in the process of personal and professional development. This is particularly true for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.For these reasons the FIT2FIT campaign will be created. It offers 16 young people aged between 18 and 25 pedagogical training, professional preparation and education in leadership and business skills using the topic of inclusion through sport. At the end of the training, the young people will be integrated into a Group of Facilitators who will facilitate the construction of social and sports entrepreneurship which will be part of the FIT2FIT campaign. The facilitators will act as multipliers at 9 Portuguese, Italian and Croatian higher education institutions. The purpose of the organisation of 8 seminars is to train around 240 young volunteers who are invited to gain organisational and social entrepreneurship competencies which will lead to the implementation of at least 20 new educational and social sport projects aimed at 3000 young people at social risk.By promoting the multiplication and civic participation of young facilitators and young volunteers using a sustainable business model, we believe we are promoting the employment and inclusion of young people on the job market and at the same time, involving them in the resolution of social and educational issues via the use of the practice of inclusive sport for young people at social risk."

“A Path to TranSportAction” (APTSA) is a project involving a total of 5 organizations from Europe (Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru), whose main aim is to enhance the capacity of youth organizations and stakeholders in all partner countries and beyond to use Sport in combination with high-end Non Formal Education methodologies for fostering a gender-inclusive approach to Sport practices, contrasting sexism and gender stereotypes and promoting equality and mutual respect among genders in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and in Latin America.Gender discrimination and inequality is a well known structural phenomenal of endemic proportion in both the European and the Latin American region. Across the different national and cultural realities composing the Consortium, the development of a concrete gender equality is impeded by persisting barriers and discrimination against young women. The aforementioned barriers are both of material nature (i.e. disadvantages in access to the labour market, lower wages as compared with male peers, lower presence of women among the higher tiers of the business and public sectors) as well as related to the social and existential spheres wherein the diffusion of a still considerable machist mentality determines more or less socially sanctioned forms of stereotyping and prejudice confining young women to established roles and conduits. The most extreme manifestations of such mentality lay at the root of widespread phenomena of verbal/psychological violence and, ultimately, physical aggression against women.The low levels of female participation in the Sport field are an important component of the wider dynamics of gender-based disadvantage. Indeed, the general prejudice considering Sport as an almost exclusive field of male engagement, coupled by the machist self-representations which permeate most Sport sub-culture, represent at the same time a telling effect and a critical self-perpetuating mechanism of gender stereotyping and discrimination. At the same time, Sport represents a powerful educational vehicle through which disadvantaged targets can acquire crucial soft skills, transversal skills and positive attitudes of self-confidence and active participation representing the key component of any grassroots process of empowerment. Through its inner dynamics of peer-interaction and fair competition among people with diverse backgrounds (cultural, ethnic, gender etc.), Sport provides also an invaluable experiential path to promote mutual respect and deconstruct prejudicesThe use of Sport in combination with Non Formal Education methodologies is a long-standing driver of NGO social action to promote empowerment and dialogue processes through a grassroots approach in a variety of contexts.