The project "Sport as Value" will promote and integrate the positive values of sports activities within the Balkans.

Sport as Value project will promote & integrate positive values within the Balkan grassroots sport movement

At the beginning of 2023, the Erasmus+ funded project “Sport as Value” initiated a two-year-long journey in which countries from the Balkan region and the European Union partnered up for a common goal; to integrate positive values within the sport practice, and to build stronger communities through sport and promotion of EU values.

Participating countries: Italy, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Malta, and Portugal

The Sport as Value project has two main goals;

First, to build the capacity of sports clubs, organizations, and federations to integrate positive values into the sports practice at the grassroots level in a structured, dynamic, and systematic way;
and second, to build stronger communities and peaceful societies through sport and the promotion of EU values in a historically fragmented region.

The joint actions will start on the Olympic day (23 June 2024) in Montenegro, and continue with activities in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania until the European Week of Sport in September 2024. 

The project partners hope to create sustainable, long-lasting partnerships in the Balkan region, with skilled and knowledgeable organizers that will successfully promote the positive impact of grassroots sports and the values in sports which will result in stronger, more peaceful, and more connected societies.