The mid-term meeting for the Hopasus project took place from the 24th to the 26th of March in Šabac, Serbia. The partners of the project, coming from Lithuania (Tavo Europa), Romania (UNEFS), Bulgaria (WalkTogether) and Serbia (SDCS) met in the welcoming Serbian city of Šabac, around one hour by car from Belgrade. The first day …
HopaSus Erasmus Sport Plus project was born out of the need of teachers and youth workers from 4 European countries to develop their digital skills and become more resilient in times of pandemics by using sport video games in their virtual or face-to-face classrooms. The aim of the project is to encourage sport teachers to recognize the potential of video games and sport applications and experiment with new strategies for incorporating them into their gyms and classrooms, and to promote the inclusion of “video games addicted youth” by changing the paradigm of persistent stereotyping of video games as predominantly mindless, violent forms of entertainment, into seeing the potential of video gaming technologies as instructional tools that takes out the children from the desk chair out into the sport field.