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YMC(H)A
Project
YMC(H)A
project brings together partners from Greece and Bulgaria
with a belief that better quality of life can be achieved
by the protection and promotion of cultural heritage and engaging
directly with citizens. Sports activities and sports history
are part of intangible heritage and a symbol of the cultural
diversity of both societies and mainstreaming sports in all
policies, such as youth, education, health, is of great importance
for the EU. The overall objective of YMC(H)A project is to
provide partners and others engaged in policy making on the
promotion of sports as part of he cultural heritage with infrastructure,
data and guidance on how to sustainably promote sports.The
University of Rilski in Blagoevgrad and YMCA-Thessaloniki
consisting the partnership, together with associated partners
such as the Bulgarian Basket Association and many more, active
in the field, the two major sports institutions with extensive
experience on sports educational programmes, sports activities
and sports promotional activities. YMC(H)A main activities
are the renovation works of sports infrastructure owned by
the University of Rilski and the construction works of a Sports
Museum in Thessaloniki, providing to the potential users of
every age, athletes or not, the facilities and challenges
of ICTs developed within the project. Moreover, dissemination
activities such as the sports festival, the seminar on museology,
basketball tournament, conference "Basket Nowadays"
and the openings in Thessaloniki and in Blagoevgrad, form
an essential part of the project for its impression to the
wider public. YMC(H)A project has the ambition to establish
a network of sports centers, open to sports associations and
organizations, to young people, to disadvantaged groups and
to all citizens, offering a range of activities, educational
and informative, with the use of ICTs, for the preservation
and promotion of sports as part of the cultural heritage.
Although part of the infrastructure exists, the need for modernization,
including multimedia, and for valorization and digitalization
of documentation and other interesting material, related to
the past, present and future of sports, give to the YMC(H)A
project an added value.
The
proposed project intents to modernize and renovate existing
sports facilities and to construct a sports Museum. Sports
facilities are located in Blagoevgrad, owned by the University
and the sports Museum will be built in Thessaloniki, in the
current basketball court owned by YMCA. The awareness activities
will be implemented balanced in every partner's area. The
project aims to provide modern sports facilities with the
use of ICTs, and a place of exhibition of the past, present
and future of sports, exploiting the comparative advantages
of neighboring countries. All activities will take place in
two big cities of the participating countries, involving a
great number of local, regional and national associations
and organizations, individuals etc. and will be distributed
at national level, in Bulgaria through the Bulgarian Basket
Association, which will be associated to the project , partner,
and in Greece through the YMCA Greece and other organizations
involved.The project orientation is to provide results on
an integrated approach that could create, in this geographical
scale, total changes and reforms in the way of exchanging
good practices in the area of development methodological tools
that enhance Cultural and Athletic elements and disseminate
aspects of the participating partners. In this terms of approach,
the attempt covers not only directly the geographic area of
the participating partners but also all the Cross-Border are
in terms of influence and youth mobilization
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