Dekeyser & Friends Foundation seeks applications from young people who are of legal age in the project country for the Sports Coaching Project to be held in Hamburg, Germany for two months starting April 2012 to learn how you can use sports to engage and empower young people, followed by a ten-months period, during which the fellows will work on their own youth project at home supported by the Foundation.
In the Sports Coaching Project in Hamburg 12 Fellows from various different countries will learn from their Project Friend Jens Lehmann how to use soccer and other sports to engage girls and boys in their home countries. If you are aged between 18 and 28, love sports, enjoy working with children and teenagers and want to help them and their communities by promoting their confidence, self-awareness, tolerance, team-spirit and joy through sports, then you can be the right candidate for this project.
Purpose of the project
Train youth teams in Hamburg in preparation for a tournament, which you will organize and conduct.
Goals
– Gain comprehensive hands-on knowledge of the fundamentals of soccer and other sports coaching, from strategies and first aid to team leadership.
– Gain confidence in working with groups of children and teenagers through comprehensive workshops and expert talks.
– Acquire the planning, organisational and leadership skills necessary to get your own sports youth project off the ground when you return back home.
Requirements
As a Fellow of the Sports Coaching Project it is important that you share a passion for sports and working with groups of kids or teenagers. Ideally you have some experience either in playing a team sport, in coaching groups, or in leading another type of youth activities. If you happen to have played some soccer, even better!
Dekeyser&Friends Inspiration Academy Projects are aimed at young people from all around the world who are eager to engage with other young people from different cultures and an experienced personality in a goal oriented hands-on project. They are for people with dreams, ideas and hopes and the motivation to make a change.
The Fellowship includes the following:
– Tuition and all project-related activities including the DreamLab sessions
– Transportation to and from the project site (including the flight from home to project country and transport from the airport to project site)
– Full board (three meals per day) and accommodation in shared single-sex rooms for the project duration
– Group computers, video cameras, photo cameras and IT equipment for project related work
– Support with all necessary documents for the visa application process as well as documents to prepare Fellows for the project
– Health, accident, travel and third party reliability insurance
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