Development of the European cultural

diversity through the promotion and

protection of the traditional sports and

games

PREPARATORY ACTION: EUROPEAN

PARTNERSHIPS ON SPORT

Priority 3: Promoting traditional

European sports and games

GRANT AGREEMENT N°

EAC – 2013 – 0489

The PARTNERSHIP is

composed by 14 partners from

8 different European Countries

PARTNERSHIP

1. FIGEST (Federazione Italiana Giochi e Sport

Tradizionali), IT Beneficiary

2. Câmara Municipal de Chaves, PT

3. National Association of Municipal Clerks in

Bulgaria, BG

4. Municipality of Narni, IT

5. Federación Andaluza de Bolos, ES

6. Foundation for the Promotion of Social

Inclusion in Malta, MT

7. Deutscher Novuss-Sport Verband e.V., DE

8. Provincia di Macerata, IT

9. Mancomunitat de la Ribera Alta, ES

10. The Society of European Martial Arts, CZ

11. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,

ES

12. Kunsill Malti ghull - iSport, MT

13. Federación Aragonesa de Deportes

Tradicionales, ES

14. Federation Departementale des foyers

ruraux du Gers, FR

DURATION OF THE

PROJECT

15/03/2014 – 15/06/2015

From March 15th

2014

to June 15th

2015

THE PROJECT IDEA

Desire to exchange information and good practice and to compare the models/standards of good practice about knowledge and promotion of the traditional sports and games with European stakeholders.

Focus on historical and cultural common origin of the traditional sports and game in Europe, an essential part of the intangibile local heritage and an important symbol of the cultural diversity of our societies.

Know the values of traditional sports and games means to know the cultural and traditional identity of a Country.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

1. Promote, develop and safeguard the traditional sports and games in Europe and their common values within an international context of local development-oriented

2. Develop in Europe the knowledge and practice of sports and traditional games as a symbol of identity and the historical and cultural heritage of a territory;

3. Encourage the construction of shared programs of European cooperation and of thematic networks, integrated, interactive and multi-functional, able to face future challenges and therefore able to ensure the future sustainability of the project;

4. Disseminate heritage and knowledge of sports and traditional games in Europe.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

- Encourage the promotion and exchange of knowledge, experience and good practice;

- Create the basis for sustainable socio-economic and tourist development of the territories through the rediscovery of places, symbols and traditional and popular activities and historical memory of a people;

- Involve different stakeholders on the various territories, in able to develop, to promote and to safeguard the immense heritage represented by the traditional sports and games;

- Create a calendar of events and initiatives oriented to as wider audience as possible;

- Ensure the future, economic, strategic and functional sustainability of the project;

- Construction of a wide, diversified and integrated communication plan with use of different means, channels and codes.

PROJECT STRUCTURE AND

WORKPROGRAMME

Activity 1: Coordination and management

Activity 2: To build an European Network of Sport

and Traditional Games

Activity 3: Implementation of the great program of

events called "European GAMES Days"

Activity 4: Creating the Competition for Young

People "Ga.MES@ Eu"

Activity 5 (Transversal Activity): communication

and dissemination

MILESTONES

KICK-OFF MEETING (activity 1), 2014 – June 6th-7th

OFFICIAL INTERACTIVE WEBSITE (activities 2 and 5),

August 2014

NATIONAL INFORMATION POINTS (activity 2), July-

September 2014

SIGNATURE OF PROGRAMME AGREEMENT (activity

2), 24th May 2015

EUROPEAN GAMES DAYS (activity 3), 23-24 May 2015

CONTEST Ga.MES@Eu (activity 4), September 2014-

May 2015

FINAL MEETING FOR THE FOLLOW-UP OF THE

PROJECT (activity 1), 23-24 May 2015

MAIN RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

KICK-OFF MEETING Perugia (Italy), 6-7 June 2014

NATIONAL INFORMATIO POINTS (NIPs)

WWW.GAMESNETPROJECT.EU

FACEBOOK OFFICIAL PAGE

EUROPEAN GAMES DAYS

Narni (Italy), 23-24 May 2015

SIGNATURE OF PROGRAMME AGREEMENT

EUROPEAN CONTEST Ga.MES @ EU and its AWARD

CEREMONY

With the realisation of the EUROPEAN GAMES

DAYS, this is the most important result of the

project. Participants were young people (16-25

years, in 2 categories: A. from 16 to 19 B. from 20

to 25) that took part at the competition submitting:

• Researches about traditional sports and games

in the Eropean history;

• Projects about how safeguard traditional sports

and games in future.

WINNER GROUPS

AQUA FLAVIENSES (cat. A) – Work

Title «GAMES.Net – European Cultural

Diversity through the promotion and

protection of traditional sports and

games»

JAHODA (cat. B) – Work Title «Building

Europe»

COMMUNICATION AND

DISSEMINATION STRATEGY

Activity 5

Strategic and transversal activity in charge of

all partners

OUTPUTS

Official website

Official Facebook

Page

Press

Printing documents

Gadgets

Photos, videos, reports

Minutes

Local promotional

events

FOLLOW-UP OF THE PROJECT

It is guaranteed with the foundation of a real

Network of stakeholders all over Europe.

This Network was born from the project

Ga.M.E.S.Net and it will continue including

other partners engaged through AEJST

(Association Européenne des Jeux et Sports

Traditionnels), an European association that

works to preserve traditional sports and games.

An action of the Ga.M.E.S.Net project dedicated to the

follow-up and the sustainability of the project is the writing

and signature of the PROGRAMME AGREEMENT.

An internal agreement between all

14 partners with the aims to

regulate the relationships between

all members, indicate tasks for

each one and regulate the entrance

of new members.

Main objectives of the PROGRAMME

AGREEMENT and tasks for all members are:

Develop aims of Ga.M.E.S.Net project;

Increase the network with different European

stakeholders (fostering the collaboration

between public and private organization);

Promote the heritage of traditional sports and

games, above all between young people;

Organization of European events and local

initiatives for the promotion and

communication;

Last but not least….

Find funding opportunities at regional,

national or European level.

About this, FIGEST is working on a new project

proposal for the EU Programme ERASMUS +

SPORT, call for proposal SMALL

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP IN THE SPORT

FIELD – Deadline 12th May 2016.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR

ATTENTION AND

GREETINGS FROM

FIGEST PRESIDENT Mr.

DINO BERTI