SPIN Sport Innovation

Innovative Concepts

SPIN deve­lo­ps inno­va­ti­ve edu­ca­ti­on and lear­ning con­cepts that are espe­ci­al­ly tail­o­red to the fields of sport, health, and youth. We have built a spe­ci­fic set of com­pe­ten­ci­es rela­ted to the deve­lo­p­ment of edu­ca­ti­on and trai­ning pro­jects and pro­gram­mes through infor­mal and non-for­mal lear­ning. This includes a spe­ci­fic com­mu­ni­ties of prac­ti­ce approach as a new form of col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve lear­ning.

Sport for Development

Sport has the poten­ti­al to pro­mo­te tole­rance and mutu­al respect, and it con­tri­bu­tes to the goals of edu­ca­ti­on and health. Used pro­per­ly, it can be an effec­ti­ve initia­tor and cata­lyst for social inclu­si­on. We work with public and pri­va­te play­ers to bet­ter harness the poten­ti­al of sports for sus­tainable deve­lo­p­ment. Through stra­te­gic con­sul­ting and spe­cial trai­ning of mul­ti­pli­ers on site, we sup­port pro­jects in the area of ​​deve­lo­p­ment through sport.

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Education through Sport

Sport and play are of gre­at importance when it comes to edu­ca­ting young peo­p­le. Sport is a key ele­ment for deve­lo­ping a healt­hy life­style and it pro­vi­des a spe­cial lear­ning envi­ron­ment. It is an effec­ti­ve and effi­ci­ent tool for deve­lo­ping cogni­ti­ve, men­tal and social com­pe­ten­ci­es. Howe­ver, to deve­lop its full edu­ca­tio­nal poten­ti­al, sport must be imple­men­ted in a tar­ge­ted and qua­li­ta­ti­ve man­ner, based on a solid and sound con­cept. We have deve­lo­ped a con­cept for a tar­ge­ted use of sport as a lear­ning tool with a focus to initia­te lear­ning pro­ces­ses of youngs­ters.

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Communities of Practice

SPIN has co-deve­lo­ped the per­son-cen­te­red YANUZ com­mu­ni­ties of prac­ti­ce approach. It descri­bes COP as a social lear­ning pathway whe­re peo­p­le com­mit to impro­ve a com­mon con­cern around a com­plex social chall­enge. And whe­re they inter­act regu­lar­ly to learn and to co-crea­te inno­va­ti­ve solu­ti­ons. It sup­ports stake­hol­ders estab­li­shing open and eye-level coope­ra­ti­on around com­plex pro­blems and to faci­li­ta­te inno­va­ti­on. The approach leads to iden­ti­fy­ing good prac­ti­ce, shared lear­ning, and inno­va­ti­ve ide­as of prac­ti­ce-based pro­blem-sol­ving. With this approach, we faci­li­ta­te buil­ding a sen­se of com­mu­ni­ty and pur­po­se of hete­ro­ge­nous stake­hol­der groups. This sup­ports sha­ping new solu­ti­ons to ent­ren­ched pro­blems, tap­ping into hid­den talent and know­ledge, and pro­vi­ding space to inno­va­te and embed chan­ge.

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Project­ References

Sport for Development

Ger­man Socie­ty for Inter­na­tio­nal Coope­ra­ti­on (GIZ)
SPIN sup­ports the Ger­man Socie­ty for Inter­na­tio­nal Coope­ra­ti­on in the field Sport for Deve­lo­p­ment. The GIZ sup­ports the Ger­man Fede­ral Govern­ment, on behalf of the Fede­ral Minis­try for Eco­no­mic Coope­ra­ti­on and Deve­lo­p­ment, in achie­ving its goals rela­ted to inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on towards sus­tainable deve­lo­p­ment through sport. As part of our coope­ra­ti­on, we deve­lop sport deve­lo­p­ment con­cepts, car­ry out local sport deve­lo­p­ment trai­ning ses­si­ons, and crea­te manu­als for sport deve­lo­p­ment prac­ti­tio­ners. In the GIZ sec­tor pro­gram “Sport for Deve­lo­p­ment in the Pal­es­ti­ni­an Ter­ri­to­ries”, SPIN deve­lo­ped approa­ches to effec­tively  acti­va­te and use exis­ting local sports infra­struc­tu­re for the deve­lo­p­ment goals of the Ger­man Govern­ment in the Pal­es­ti­ni­an Ter­ri­to­ries.

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Education through Sport

Ger­man Socie­ty for Inter­na­tio­nal Coope­ra­ti­on (GIZ)
Within the lar­ger con­text of United Nation’s led inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on for sus­tainable deve­lo­p­ment, SPIN appli­es sport as a tool to build capa­ci­ty in com­mu­ni­ties, orga­ni­sa­ti­ons and for indi­vi­du­als. With youth and young adults being the main tar­get group of our edu­ca­ti­on through sport pro­gram­mes. Our capa­ci­ty buil­ding approach is cen­te­red around edu­ca­ti­on, life skills and employa­bi­li­ty. For exam­p­le, we deve­lo­ped a prac­ti­cal manu­al for local life skills coa­ches for the Ger­man Socie­ty for Inter­na­tio­nal Coope­ra­ti­on. As part of the GIZ pro­ject “Kick-off: Sport­ing acti­vi­ties for Deve­lo­p­ment in Ser­bia, Koso­vo and Alba­nia”, we took over the plan­ning and imple­men­ta­ti­on of on-site trai­ning mea­su­res.

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Communities of Practice

Social Inno­va­ti­on Lear­ning Space Yanuz
Yanuz is an open resour­ce to co-crea­te inno­va­ti­ve solu­ti­ons con­cer­ning the com­plex socie­tal chal­lenges we face today. Our focus lies on estab­li­shing a more healt­hy socie­ty. It is an open resour­ce available for any­bo­dy who likes to expand their know­ledge on how to co-crea­te inno­va­ti­ve solu­ti­ons con­cer­ning the com­plex socie­tal chal­lenges we face today. The com­ple­xi­ty-ori­en­ted lear­ning space offers appli­ed tools, gui­ding prin­ci­ples and field-tes­ted prac­ti­ces, tog­e­ther with con­sul­ting and trai­ning oppor­tu­ni­ties. It pro­vi­des com­mu­ni­ty to build and share expe­ri­en­ces and an access point towards trus­ted col­la­bo­ra­ti­on and relia­ble part­ner­ships. A uni­que fea­ture of the Social Inno­va­ti­on Lear­ning Space Yanuz is its spe­ci­fic focus on the role of edu­ca­ti­on in the pro­cess towards social chan­ge.

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