Sporty Mentor
Mentoring as a tool to motivate young people with challenging behaviours to adopt a healthy lifestyle and engage in sports
The Sporty Mentor project aims to use mentoring and sport as tools to stimulate change in young people with challenging behaviors. The idea is to create a model that promotes and ensures children/ young people are listened to in a child-friendly, positive and informal environment. We want to address the lack of physical activity in adolescents. Despite the benefits of physical activity, more than 80% of the world’s adolescent population is insufficiently physically active (WHO, 2020). Moreover, This project is also an occasion to bring young people into the digital world. Through the creation of a mobile application, users can be introduced to new technologies & new ways of interaction as it will involve the mentors/mentees & invite them to share & challenge each other with play-full activities. This project supported by the Erasmus+ programme gathers 6 partners from 5 European countries (Belgium – Pour La Solidarité , France – AFEJI, Ireland – I&F, Portugal Aproximar Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social, CRL & Universidad da Beira Interior – UBI and Asociatia Vis Juventum Romania).
The Sporty Mentor project aims to use mentoring and sport as tools to stimulate change in young people with challenging behaviors.
To reach this goal, the concrete objectives of the project are:
1. to develop a guide to define the scientific basis for a sports mentoring programme for young people (13-19 years old) with challenging behaviors
2. to develop a sports mentoring programme that will support 60 mentors and mentees in the partner countries
3. to develop an eco-citizenship toolkit to support the sport mentoring programme
4. to develop a SportyMentor mobile app to promote sports activities and create a link between mentor and mentee, as well as to raise awareness of environmental and sustainability issues