OUR PROJECT
Care of the marine environment.
The objectives of our project are implicit in the call, since the Erasmus Plus program in its section “Environment and fight against climate change” encourages the development of projects that, through education, training, youth and sports, give rise to behavioral changes with respect to people’s preferences, consumption habits and lifestyles; develop the sustainability competencies of educators and educational leaders, and support the approaches planned by participating organizations in terms of environmental sustainability by promoting the participation of athletes who practice adapted sport.
Our entire project is based on the sports practice of canoeing, promoting, through its practice and participation in sporting events, the care of the marine environment, rivers and lakes, which has such an effect on the neutral climate strategy.
In the field of sport, the objectives are marked by the section of promotion of integrity and values in sport (our sport is framed in a natural environment, collaborating in the care of the environment, taking advantage of its intrinsic connection with aquatic environments and promoting sustainable practices)
Regarding the objectives of the action, we intend to respond to the following objectives:
Attend to common priorities and needs in the areas of education, training, youth and sport (Education and training because we care about training as environmental eco-ambassadors, youth, because we focus on environmental sports training in schoolchildren and sports as a speaker to protect the aquatic environment in which our sport operates)
Promote transformation and change (at the individual, sectoral or organizational level, leading to improvements proportional to the context of each organization).
sustainability
In relation to Horizontal Priority
Environmental sustainability (helping organizations and participants find alternative and greener ways of implementing project activities, addressing the needs of sports inclusion, which we develop, through adapted canoeing)
The combination of canoeing with environmental awareness offers a unique opportunity to address environmental challenges at a transnational level and encourage collaboration between European countries, making our project an opportunity to:
Connect sport and nature in three fundamental areas in the fight against climate change: sea, rivers and lakes.
Promotion of sustainable sport, both in caring for the environment, ecological sports practices and sporting events with low environmental impact.
Innovation and Good Practices, innovation because we will take advantage of digital tools, which will help carry out our sport in a sustainable way and good practices that will allow us to establish low environmental impact strategies in sporting events, related to canoeing.
Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): The project is aligned with several SDGs, including action for water (SDG 6), and life on land (SDG 15). Promoting a healthy lifestyle through canoeing also contributes to the SDGs related to health and well-being (SDG 3).
Our project focuses mainly on the following lines of action
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Promote Environmental Awareness through the practice of canoeing: a) Research on knowledge b) Education and Training on that knowledge c) Direct observation of the behavior of our aquatic environments, through the sports practice of canoeing.
2
Develop training and awareness campaigns in the search for environmental eco-ambassadors, through peer training and through the practice of canoeing.
3
Actively participate, through our sport, in the protection and care of natural and protected ecosystems.
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Establish sustainable practices and strategies in our sports practice and in the organization of sporting events, related to canoeing.
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Use Olympic figures as agents of change, all our institutions have Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as international athletes, who will help us expand the ideas of our project.
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Promote codes of environmental ethics among canoeists and participate in environmental initiatives that promote continuous commitment to caring for the environment.