About
Impact
Our Objective
IMPACT overall objective is to promote education in and through sport, more specifically supporting skills development in sport and promoting the quality of coaching and staff at EU sports club level by elaborating, piloting, evaluating, and disseminating an Innovative Model for Parents, Athletes and Coaches in Tennis (IMPACT) to build on mental health (MH) awareness and understanding in grassroots clubs, parents, coaches, and tennis athletes 12-24 years aged living in EU cities(3) and 2 EU remote (backwards) communities.
Impact
Our Ambitions
The ambition of the project partners is to provide a whole innovative mental health ecological systems model for European tennis grassroots sports clubs including:
- 1 suite of mental health resources for sports clubs
- 1 blended learning educational program Supporting minds including
- 3 main modules for parents, coaches and athletes
- 1 school training activity model and 5 inspiring community - based sports events applying totally innovative approach for best practices identification and collaborative learning – Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP).
Through setting up a transnational network of three EU sports clubs /2 from remote communities/, one leading EU University along with its tennis academy and one experienced NGO in EU sports actions the project will provide for the proper mix of expertise to implement the one-of-a- kind EU grassroots tennis MH model at sports club level which moreover will be implemented in backwards communities as well. IMPACT is a model to raise and develop tennis sports people MH awareness, literacy and skillset while strengthening the communities’ grassroots sports organisations’ role in prevention and protection of athletes against MH issues.
