16/10/2021
Italy
participants
The main aim of the activity was to encourage Erasmus and International students to play sports during their mobility period. However, the activity also aimed at fostering integration and multicultural engagement among students, because sports have no boundaries and are the perfect space to promote these values.
The two-day basket event was organised within two weeks. ESN Napoli coordinated the organisation of the events by creating groups and encouraging international students to get to know each other. Both the events were held in the wonderful Lungomare di Pertini in Pozzuoli, which offers free and accessible basket courts for everyone. The events consisted of organising short 3v3 or 5v5 basket matches, the teams were composed of international students and ESN members as well. We really believe in gender-inclusive sports events, which is why we worked very hard to promote mixed teams, and we achieved to form them. Not only were these two days successful in terms of participation and goals achievement, but also, it really created a sort of "hub" for international students to organise autonomously basket training days for them and allowed us to keep monitoring on their activities and their engagement.
