SAVE IT: Saving the Dream of a Grassroots Sport Based on Values

SAVE IT is an European collaborative partnership project, which allows to several groups of stakeholders with different backgrounds on sports, education or computer engineering, to collaborate in this experience whose main goal is to support innovative and educational approaches to reduce and prevent violence and tackle racism, discrimination, and intolerance in grassroots sports as football. This general goal is a relevant issue with an international dimension (e.g. discrimination episodes at grassroots level have taken places in virtually all Member States in the European Union). Reducing violence in sports is an important issue that has been incorporated into the European politics, and it is also clear that large disparities exist between Member States about how to handle these problems. The SAVE IT project will design a learning methodology oriented to grassroots sports in order to reduce violence, racism and discrimination, by promoting the recognition of sports values and teaching to the main target groups (kids, youngsters, coaches). For this purpose, it will be designed two kind of learning materials; on the one hand, development of learning modules to educate on values to be used to by coaches. On the other hand, development of contents for serious games with the goal of being used by kids and young practitioners. The innovative aspect of this project is based on the designing of new didactic materials to teach sport values, and new educational tools based on gamification, that will be used to reach these target groups through training activities.