Sport for Unity, Resilience and Empowerment (SURE) project

Time frame: 2024 - 2026

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About the project

How can we make grassroots sports easier for everyone to join?
How can we make it more affordable (for everyone)?
How can sports help people stay involved during tough times?

These are the main challenges addressed by the Erasmus Plus cooperation partnership project SURE.

With this project we aim to develop a cooperation model with the goal of strengthening organised (grassroots) sports. We aim to highlight and support sports’ role in building stronger communities by improving access to sport for vulnerable groups.

We also want to empower sports organisations to better manage crises such as energy shortages, displacement, or pandemics.

Resilience compass

Resilience compass is a digital map of recommended actions for sport clubs to stay resilient in times of crisis.

Sport clubs must stay resilient during times of crisis in order to provide sport, continuity and social support to their community during difficult times and/or when the crisis is over.

How to use it

Start with the Self-Evaluation Tool to identify areas where your club could strengthen its resilience.

Continue with the Resilience Compass to explore recommended actions.

Filter the Resilience Compass by selecting the target group and/or crisis relevant to your club, then explore the recommended actions.

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Project's deliverables

Guidelines

Creating inclusive activities and events

This guide focuses on reducing barriers related to neurodivergence, physical disability, sensory needs, and gender diversity — but it cannot address every potential barrier. Some factors like diculties with reading, limited financial resources, or cultural differences are also important, but may require additional tools or local adaptation.

Systematic Review

Building Resilience and Equity: An Umbrella Review of Evidence for Crisis Management in Grassroots Sport

Crises such as pandemics, displacement, climate change, and economic downturns disrupt grassroots sport, undermining participation, equity, and resilience. This umbrella review synthesised evidence on strategies that sustain and adapt community sport participation during crises.

News and updates

SURE project presents an academic research on crisis management in grassroot sports

Research focused on building resilience of grassroots sport movement to be able to face crisis situations.

SURE Consortium Wraps Up a Successful Year

Across all work packages, partners have demonstrated exceptional commitment, cooperation, and progress, laying a solid foundation for the final phase of the Erasmus+ SURE project.

Partners meeting in Azores, Portugal in April 2024

The meeting started on 29 April 2024 with a short introduction of the project and presentations of partners organisations.

SURE project kicks off with an online meeting

SURE started on 1 January 2024 and will continue for 36 months, until 31 December 2026.

Project partners

SURE gathers a motivated consortium of 11 partners and 5 associated partners from 13 countries, coming from private and public fields, from within and outside the organised sport movement.