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IceHeart Europe ENG
Duration: 36 months – January 2023– December 2025
Location: The project is European in scope and takes place in Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain
Applicant/Coordinator: ISCA (Denmark)
Partners:
- UISP APS (Italy)
- Icehearts (Finland)
- EuroHealthNet (Belgium)
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Finland)
- University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy)
- University College of Cork (Ireland)
- Italian Institute of Public Health (Italy)
- DGI (Denmark)
- SPIN (Estonia)
- Fútbol Más Espana (Spain)
- Sports Union of Slovenia
Associated partenrs: UFOLEP (France), V4Sport (Poland), BG Be Active (Bulgaria), Viken Idrettskrets (Norvegia), JOGG (Nederland), Deutscher Turner-Bund/Deutscher Turner-Jugend (Germany), SOKOL (Check Republic), Health Life Academy (Croazia), UMFI (Iceland), Latvian Sports Federation Council (Latvia), NEMUNAS (Lituania), MOVE Malta, Institute for Sport and Youth (IDPJ) (Portugal) and Association Sport for all Suceava (Romania).
Funding body: EU4H-2022 Programme
SUMMARY:
The main goal of IceHearts Europe is to integrate mental health into grassroots sports programs, with the aim of improving the well-being of vulnerable children. The goal of IceHearts Europe is to implement a methodology that can be adopted by different countries, taking a cue from the Finnish IceHearts model, which uses team sports as a tool to engage children in social work.
OBJECTIVES:
- Creating a model and tools for the European implementation of Icehearts
- Building the capacity of partner organizations and stakeholders to implement Icehearts
- Implementing pilot actions in 5 European countries
- Increasing European awareness of Icehearts and involve more countries and organizations.
PROJECT ACTION:
- Review of the European concept of Icehearts.
- Implementation of national stakeholder and partner building workshops
- Study visits to the Finnish Icehearts headquarters and local implementation sites
- Situation analysis and needs assessment in each pilot country
- Training of Icehearts mentors and recruitment of young participants
- Pilot activities (social support, sports activities, school care, summer camps, etc.)
UISP ROLE AND TASKS
- Contributing to the refinement of the European concept of Icehearts
- Organizing a national stakeholder and partner building workshop
- Participation in all international in-person and online meetings and study visit to Finland
- Contribution to situation analysis and needs assessment in Italy
- National training of Icehearts mentors and recruitment of youth participants
- Pilot activities (social support, sports activities, school assistance, summer camps, etc.) in 10 different realities in Italy, involving 20 mentors and 400 young people
EXPECTED RESULTS:
- European implementation manual of Icehearts
- Implementation of online learning course
- Production and translation of Icehearts online and offline marketing and campaign materials, website, articles and blog posts
- Organization of the first European Icehearts conference, creation of the Icehearts Next Adopters group
- Implementation of synchronous online learning course for 80 new stakeholders, dedicated capacity building workshops in 7 other countries
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For more information: progettazione@uisp.it
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