Acronym: CROSSBO ACTIVE

Contract Number: ESTLATRUS/3.2./ELRI-130/2011/15

Beneficiary: Latgale Region Development Agency

Beneficiary Address: Latgale Region Development Agency

Country: Latvia

Region: Latgale Region

Project Location: Pskov Region

Start Date: 01.03.2012

Project Duration: 18 months

Grant Amount: 284.105,45 €

Percentage Of Total Eligible Action Costs: 90%

Summary: The project is focused on fostering regional competitiveness and attractiveness to people through improved life quality and access to sports and health facilties in the project area. The project period is 18 months. The project partnership involves 2 project partners: Latgale Region Development Agency (Lead Partner), Latvia, and Pskov state educational institution of additional education for children "Children and Youth Sports Training", Russia, and 1 associated partner State Committee of Pskov Region on Youth Policy and Sports, Russia; the wider project partnership involves 16 various municipalities and insitutions. The project addresses the problem of social exclusion, unhealthy life-style and lack of access to sports and health facilities. The project offers solution of the problem by ensuring healthy life awareness raising and inclusion activities. The target group is Latgale and Pskov community regardless of their age, gender and social status and socially excluded community groups - youth at risk for drug, alcohol and tabacco addiction, youth from marginalized or low income families, women at risk, people with special needs - the philosophy of the project is to involve and include these target groups into common integrated activities of the general community and to promote healthy life-style understanding by means of sports, namely basketball and streetball. This activity is affordable, accessible and democratic for marginalized and socially excluded groups at risk. The specific sub-objectives of the project are: (1) to ensure opportunities for socially excluded community groups and those at health risk to join common health and sports and raise awareness of healthy lifestyle; (2) to build capacity of municpalities and their institutions for public service delivery to the community groups; (3) to promote social inclusion and healthy lifestyle at local, regional and cross-border level. The project activities include organization of cross-border sports activities, delivery of training to municipalities and sports specialists, awareness raising among the cross-border community on social inclusion and healthy lifestyle as well as project publicity actions, promotion of networking for sustainable cooperation among the project partners, municipalities, sports organizations, NGOs, educational, social institutions. In the result of the project the life quality, accessibility to active leisure will increase. The sports and health tools include basketball, voleyball, futsal, streetball, football 7x7 tournaments and distance shots, penalty shots, basket shots, etc. The Project plans the number of people at risk, involved in common sports and health promotion activities to be increased twice by project end.

Project homepage: www.crossboactive.net

Measure name: Cooperation in spheres of culture, sport, education, social and health

Measure: 3.2

Involved partners:

1. Latgale Region Development Agency, Saules street 15, Daugavpils, LV-5401
2. Pskov State educational institution "Children and Youth Centre Sports Training", 180019, Pskov ,Tekstilnaya street, house 7

Additional information:

1. Portfolio_130.pdf (pdf) 254.27 KB
2. Portfolio_130_FIN_ru.docx (docx) 347.36 KB
3. ELRI-130_LAT.docx (docx) 431.94 KB
4. RESULTS 130.pdf (pdf) 886.62 KB