On June 20, a meeting of the Youth Integrity Ambassador Program (YIAP) took place online, marking the start of the project, supported by Erasmus+ programme in the field of youth, focusing on volunteering and good governance.

YIAP is a cooperative partnership project having ENGSO Youth and Swedish Sports Confederation taking the positions of leading organizations. The aim of this project is to educate and empower young people, with or without intellectual disabilities, both volunteers and athletes to become sport integrity ambassadors. Through the implementation of this project, young people will be trained to promote positive change in the sports sector, to be the main actors for building a safe environment in the sports sector, making more participatory spaces for young people within it.



Main topics and objectives of the YIAP project will be to develop key competences of young people to take an active roles in their societies by promoting and disseminating a culture of integrity in their sport communities, to take part of an educational program that would serve to equip the youth with the right skills and digital tools, to gather them around the common values as well as to train young people to actively identify, prevent and react against dishonesty and crooked practices within the sport sector and in society at large.

The meeting was attended on behalf of EUSA and its Institute by Communications & Projects Manager Mr Andrej Pisl and Communications Officer Ms Hristina Hristova. The next meeting will be the official kick-off meeting, and it is foreseen to be a live one, this fall in Lithuania.



Funded by the Erasmus+ Youth Programme of the European Union, the project will run for a period of 24 months from May 2022 to April 2024. The YIAP project is led by the European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO) with ENGSO Youth (SWE) and Swedish Sports Confederation (SWE), partnering with EUSA Institute (SLO) , Special Olympics Europe-Eurasia Foundation - SOEE (IRL), RF-SISU Smäland (SWE), Portuguese Sport Confederation (POR), Lithuanian Union Of Sport Federation - LSFS (LTU Organisation for Sports Education - OPES (ITA).