Project name: Sport, culture, youth: at the heart of the exchange
Project partners: Union Sportive et de Jeunesse du Montreuillois (Pas-de-Calais, FR) ; K.F.C. Varsenare (West Flanders, BE)
Project length: April 2022 - May 2022
Grant awarded: 13,705 € (West-Vlaanderen ; Pas-de-Calais)
Project status: Completed
Description
This mobility and intercultural exchange project for young people aged 14-15 years old builds on a shared passion for football as a vector for fostering cultural openness. Each club will host a tournament and invite their partner to participate. The tournament will be the opportunity for the young people taking part in the project to get to know each other through sport and to discover a new culture, language, and local heritage. A video report will be realised to communicate on this experience.
Achievements
The cultural exchanges took place during two football tournaments in April 2022 and May 2022. The partners thanked the Straits Committee and pointed out that this project had only been made possible thanks to the sustained support, reassuring and regular follow-up provided by the Straits Committee's officers. They also suggested that further collaboration may arise because of the success of the project.
An article on the April 2022 exchange in Montreuil-sur-Mer was published in the Nord Littoral newspaper. .