Strong Mind for Success

Bulgarian Sports Development Association – BSDA was founded in 2010 and is a NGO devoted to the development of sport and improving sporting culture.

Main priorities of the Bulgaria Sports Association are:

• Reviving sport culture; 
• Volunteering in sport;
• Education through and in sport; 
• Good governance in sport; 
• Integration through sport;
• Skills of the future and entrepreneurship.

As sport is about ambition, emotion and inspiration initiated by the people for the people, the sector should be based on the personal convictions of decision-makers for integrity, dedication and fairness as well as on the principles of “fair play”, team-work, discipline, equal start and non-discrimination. Sport is also an excellent way to prevent many of the problems within our society such as social exclusion, violence, crime and addictions.

The team of the association is creative and full of innovative spirit that works for the development of sport and sport culture in Bulgaria and Europe. BSDA membership is voluntary and the association involves both physical and legal persons who are willing to help sport development with time, ideas, effort or financial support. The assocciation also organizes different events in the areas of: entepreunership, citizenship and active society. The team of the organization consists of professionals from different fields such as: sport experts, media specialists, tourism and hospitality, education, marketing and others.

ENDORFIN Sports Association

The Endorfin Sports Association is a newcomer into the Erasmus+ world. It specializes in the field of education on the content of the dual career of athletes. The purpose of the association is to:

• Encourage children and young people to spend their free time actively;
• Care for the protection of the health and vitality of children and youth;
• encourage creativity and increase the personal satisfaction of young people;
• Encourage sympathy for the terms “sport” and “recreation” with action goals and
          development of mutual relations by cooperating with other sports and social organizations;
• Care for the cultural entertainment and social life of members;
• Encourage, organize, introduce and guide members in modern forms of sports recreation      and leisure activities for children and youth;
• Develop new forms of educational materials for suppporting dual career for athletes;

Endorfin Sports Association is a long-term partner of the Ajdovščina Sports Institute and also a member of the Ajdovščina Sports Federation.  The association is also in collaboration with various leading organizations who are engaged in development of sport in the Republic of Slovenia.  The association has extensive experience in organizing sports programs for children as well as in organizing other sports events. 

Leaders in the sports organization have in the past participated in international Erasmus + Sports projects related to the production of study materials.

Members of the project team also have extensive experience as coaches in working with athletes. In the mentioned project we will combine knowledge from the field of management of sports organizations and also pedagogical work.

L’ORMA  SSD a.r.l.

L’ORMA is a non-profit educational agency that develops and delivers the best possible formative sport/expressive experiences since 2000, based on non-formal education and aimed at personal and professional growth of children, parents and teachers. 

The organization is a non-profit social enterprise whose main purpose is to promote, encourage, and make social change in a financially sustainable way: all the incomes are reinvested in its mission.

The permanent staff is composed of 10 people that every year coordinate more than 180 youth workers, developing different initiatives in sport, physical and artistic expression (theatre and musical performance arrangements) and playful-recreational education activities.

The organization implements its activities through education and movement workshops and training courses in schools (addressed differently both to teachers and students), summer camps for children and their families, training experiences for children, adults and organizations, sport events.  

The social impact of its activities falls in the spheres of well-being and education of young people through their engagement in multidisciplinary sport and training activities, and in the support to local authorities in involving young people from disadvantaged groups of the population.

L’ORMA is accredited as an educational institution for training school teachers, by the Ministry of Education in Italy.

L’ORMA is also affiliated to the Italian Sport Orienteering Federation and the Italian Modern Pentathlon Federation. It plays a prestigious role on the regional and national scene, especially with regards to the youth movement.

Every year in its ordinary activities L’ORMA:

• Involves 50 schools, delivering 220/250 laboratories for 4.000 children;
• Organizes 10 Summer Camps, implementing 11.000 days of activities for 3.000 children;
• Delivers 10/15 Workshops for 300 teachers and 450 Youth Workers.

L’ORMA aims at participating in the project in order to share with European partners its experience in sport and social initiatives organization, promotion and communication, above all addressed to young people and families.

In particular, L’ORMA has been carrying out education workshops in schools for over 10 years, based on theatre and musical activities, where movement is used as a means of communication through music and expressiveness for youngsters. All our activities stimulate focus, fast response and are known to be funny and dynamic. Since its foundation, L’ORMA has established itself as a private educational agency, in the    non-profit sector, a limpid example of a precursor of social enterprise applied to the world    of sport and education; at the local level, it is very active in the dissemination and promotion of entrepreneurial culture and at the European level it can therefore share its experience in terms of entrepreneurial theory, techniques and methods in the field of sport.