Denmark

Coordinator of Project
Albertslund Youth Centre
Contact person: Tina Jensen
KA2 Cooperation for Innovation
E-mail: tinajensen05@gmail.com
Web: http://albertslund-ungecenter.skoleporten.dk/sp and the Exchange of Good Practices
Strategic Partnerships for Youth

Norway
Haugaland Upper Secondary School
Contact person: Solveig Rossebo Kalstad
E-mail:solveig.kalstad@skole.rogfk.no
Web:www.haugaland.vgs.no

Ireland
Clare Youth Service
Contact person: Brian McManus
E-mail: bmcmanus@clareyouthservice.org
Creating Opportunities
Web: http://www.clareyouthservice.org/ and Understanding for Avoiding
and Preventing Exclusion

A collaboration from five countries

to integrate best practice from education,
Portugal
youth work, sports and
Carlos Gargat School other leisure pursuits
Contact person: Maria da Graca Carvalha
,
E-mail: gracadiniscarvalha@gmail.com
Web: www.aecg.pt
Developing and Sharing activities
to combat the social exclusion
of young men and women

Lithuania
Alytus Youth Center
Contact person: Jrat Treigien
E-mail: ajc@ajc.lt
Web: www.ajc.lt 20152018

www.eucourage.eu
https://www.facebook.com/eucourage
The COURAGE project is a 3-year programme
of research and development undertaken by
partnership of five institutions integrating
educational, youth, sports and other leisure
activities in Denmark, Portugal, Ireland,
Lithuania and Norway.
It addresses the exclusion of young people
from social, educational, cultural and economic
opportunities associated with full citizenship a
serious issue across Europe.
THE AIM OF THE PROJECT TARGET GROUPS
The main objective of the project is to explore
and disseminate best practice in collaboration The immediate target groups for our findings
between educational, youth, sporting and other and products are youth and community
workers, school leaders and teachers, trainers
recreational agencies to combat the social
exclusion of young people of both sexes. and coaches, working with young people in
European research and our own preliminary varying degrees of co-operation with related
investigations indicate that: agencies and with varying and often
inadequate resources for training and support.
1 Our ultimate beneficiaries are the many
hundreds and thousands of young people
within the broad range of life-skills needed
whose life-chances will benefit during and after
to exercise full citizenship, the development
of social skills and associated selfconfidence the lifetime of the project from our target
and positive self-esteem is very important groups enhanced knowledge and competence.
for young people.
2 PROJECT OUTPUTS
sporting activities and non-formal types of All of our findings, conclusions, analyses,
educational and community activity such reports, films and resource packs will be
as drama, dance, music and multi-media disseminated through freely accessible public
workshops can be very effective in engaging
or re-engaging young people in wider social website sustainable after the projects lifetime;
and educational networks, raising through publications and presentations in the
selfconfidence and self-esteem, developing academic and professional literature; and
social skills and team-working, and thus through an European conference for
combating social and economic exclusion. practitioners delivered at the end of the project.
3
such initiatives seem to be very effective
when spear-headed and supported by
nationally and/or locally prestigious
sporting and other organizations such as
those our partners have worked with, e.g.
those associated with two premiership
football teams, Benfica in Portugal and
Arsenal in the Community in the UK.