Final Report European Union Study on Sport as a Tool for the Social Integration of Young People March 2000 Final Report for the European Commission European Union Study on Sport as a Tool for the Social Integration of Young People No. 1999-0458/001-001 SVE – SVE4ET March 2000 submitted by Prof. Dr. Peter Becker, BSJ Heike Brandes,ISS Rainer Kilb, ISS (Subject Coordination) Dr. Elke Opper, Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Darmstadt Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Stolz,ISS Karsten Vestweber, BSJ Martina Eifrig, GOPA-Consultants Martin Jeglitza, GOPA-Consultants (General Co-ordination) GOPA-Consultants Hindenburgring 18 D-61348 Bad Homburg Telephone: +49-6172-930 410 Fax: +49-6172-930 440 E-mail:
[email protected] Fig. 1: Map of Europe I European Union: Sport as a tool for social integration Contents I General conditions and project objectives (Martin Jeglitza) 1 1 The purpose, development and objectives of the project and initial definitions 2 2 Project structure and organisation 5 II Outline of the status of the research and conceptual definitions 6 1 Adventure and sport in the context of the adolescent crisis (Peter Becker) 8 1.1 The basic pattern of sports activities 9 1.2 The basic pattern of adventure activities 12 2 The importance of programmes like EVS and YFE for the developmental phases of youth and young adults in the context of transnational integration objectives at European level (Rainer Kilb) 15 III Project results 19 1 Country overview – On the situation of young people, youth aid and assistance and non-competitive sports