CHESS START RO-HU - joint development of a cross-border chess-based social inclusion tool (Q4302174)
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Project Q4302174 in Romania, Hungary
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | CHESS START RO-HU - joint development of a cross-border chess-based social inclusion tool |
Project Q4302174 in Romania, Hungary |
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59,496.96 Euro
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69,996.42 Euro
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85.0 percent
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1 December 2018
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31 December 2019
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CREST Association
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Q4368876 (Deleted Item)
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Q4368876 (Deleted Item)
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47°56'56.58"N, 21°44'41.89"E
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47°48'45.11"N, 22°52'35.54"E
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47°46'56.42"N, 22°51'59.90"E
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This project bring together organization from Satu Mare and Nyregyhaza, working with children from marginalized Roma communities facing similar problems in term of marginalization and discrimination and it enhances joint organizational capacity to develop innovative solutions. The created partnership develops social inclusion opportunities of vulnerable children in the cross-border area using chess both as a personal development tool and a mean to create positive interaction opportunities with other community members to sustain social inclusion and reduce discrimination.The project’s overall objective is to intensify sustainable cross-border cooperation of the communities in Satu Mare and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg through developing innovative solutions to common problems of social inclusion of marginalized communities, contributing to more active cross-border cooperation of various institutions and citizens.The project contributes to the programme priority specific objective SO11 (Intensify sustainable cross-border cooperation of institutions and communities) by involving social experts from two NGOs in Satu Mare and chess specialists from a non-governmental organization in Nyiregyhaza in a collaborative process aiming to jointly build and implement an innovative life-skills development program for children using as a central element the potential of chess. Around it, a series of joint activities (training and common chess competitions, cultural activities, camp, workshops, conference) and the cross-border chess competitions will strengthen citizen cooperation in the region.Through this project, representatives from 3 NGOs in the cross-border area will develop skills for teaching chess techniques and building life skills development programs using chess as a central activity. 80 vulnerable people will benefit from an innovative social service built within this project, achieving measurable results of personal and life skills development and raising their self-esteem. The project will build an innovative social service model with great potential for replication to be promoted on a large scale. This will be a real tool for increasing self-esteem and for life skills developing of children from vulnerable groups. The project promotes equal opportunities fights against discrimination, offering opportunities to reduce the life skills development gaps that exists between children in difficulty and other children from the cross-border area, supporting their inclusion and access to development opportunities.The innovation that this project brings include:- Using the huge development potential of chess on children as a central element on which a social intervention program is built on, increasing self-esteem and supporting the social inclusion of children from marginalized communities- Creating cross-border partnership between social services providing NGO’s and chess organizations, putting together their knowledge, skills and experience to tackle common challenges within their local communities: inequity in development opportunities between children living in Roma marginalized communities and other children and also, severe discrimination problems, that hider social inclusion chances of these children.- Creating concrete opportunities for positive interactions through sport among community members and vulnerable people, thus contributing to changing mentality anchored in negative stereotypes about people from marginalized communities and especially about Roma. (English)
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