EPMIMT Project offers interesting results for sports organisations
Together with several FA’s, Leagues and the EFDN Foundation co-ordinator English Football League Trust is pleased to be able to share the results of Pan-European project EPMIMT. The results of the project are intended to be of value to organisations across Europe who use sports development programmes to improve social inclusion in their communities.
Sharing best practice on how football clubs can improve social inclusion in their communities is what the project is about. EPMIMT is a European Effective Practice Model and Impact Measurement Tool for sport-inspired Social Inclusion Projects. The project was developed through support and co-funding from the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
Development and impact
The aims of the project is to create a set of freely accessible online resources for anyone involved in sport-based social inclusion activities. The project specifically looked at the development and impact of ‘street leagues’ in various European countries including Spain, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. Street leagues involve taking football into locations in the heart of communities suffering from a range of social issues and working with young people in danger of being involved in anti-social behaviour.
Besides The English Football League Trust the other partners on the project are the European Football for Development Network (representing the Netherlands), the Football Association of Ireland, the Scottish Football League Trust, Bundesliga Stiftung from Germany, the Fundación del Futbol professional from Spain, the Lithuanian club, Gargzdu Futbolas and with additional support from Subtance.
Results
The results of the EPMIMT project are intended to be of value to organisations across Europe who use sports development programmes to improve their communities. The results can be found on the EPMIMT website and includes three parts. The first of these is the European Football for Development Network Street League Erasmus Programme Guide which presents a step by step guide to delivery of an effective sport for development programme. Following is a series of Case Studies based on the delivery of this programme in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain and an assessment of their impact. The last section exists of a range of evaluation and best practice reports drawn from other programmes and finally a selection of websites providing further guidance.
Besides generating guidance on effective practice the project developed an impact measurement and forecasting tool that enables interested organisation to benchmark their proposed or actual programme delivery against this guidance.
More information about the project you find here.
