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Sport is increasingly recognised as a tool to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing health, education, employment, and conflict resolution. However, opportunities to learn how to maximise its impact remain limited. To bridge this gap, the International Platform on Sport and Development, the Australian Government, and the Commonwealth Secretariat have launched Sport for Sustainable Development, the first MOOC dedicated to sport for development.
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Esports is rapidly booming as a recreational and competitive sport, attracting more and more participants at the grassroots level. This two-year Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnership project led by ISCA has an important mission to help community organisations overcome stereotypes about gaming and esports and include young gamers in grassroots sport’s value-based, social structure.
In this beginner-level course, you'll learn the origins, types, and applications of artificial intelligence and how they're being applied in sport, with a dedicated focus on AI's potential for women's sport. Upon completion, you'll be READY to understand, navigate, and maybe even use AI in your personal and professional life. Use coupon code SPORTANDDEV to access the course for free for a limited time.
The Foundations of Protecting Athletes’ Human Rights, is now freely available as part of the Human Rights Empowered Through Athletes’ Rights (H.E.R.O.) project, co-funded by the European Union. This online course provides essential knowledge and practical guidance to help athletes and sport organisations understand, protect, and promote human rights within the sporting context.
Safeguarding in Sport is a series of three online courses for everyone involved in sport. They have been designed to increase your understanding of safeguarding, why it is important, and how you can develop safeguarding in your own sport. Safeguarding is about everyone, and it applies to everyone, whatever your role in sport. The success of sport relies on putting people – their safety, wellbeing, and welfare – at the centre of what sport does.
Sport has long been considered a valuable tool for development and peace, fostering communications, resiliency, inclusion, and building bridges between communities in conflict. Efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism have increasingly sought to engage youth, communities, and marginalized groups through sport-based interventions that can serve as an effective platform to address the ideologies and root causes of violent extremism.
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