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Healthy lifestyleContext
The Youth Sports Games – the largest amateur youth sports event in Europe – use sport as a means to connect with children and teens (ages 6 to 18) and promote healthy lifestyles. More than 3.4 million children have competed in the 29 years since the first games were held.
Project goals
Aims of the association
- Bring together children and teens to actively participate in sport and recreation
- Educate and encourage children and teens in sport and friendship as an alternative to various forms of addiction and deviant behaviour
- Provide and promote educational content through all activities, sending modern and up-to-date messages from young people to young people in support of health and social projects and to deter from addictive behaviours
Aims for 2026
- Involve more than 389,000 participants across all countries
- Expand our presence to more than 400 cities and 27,000 female football players
- Gather 8,000 participants in all four national finals and 2,000 at the international finals, for which all accommodation, travel and competition expenses will be covered
Project content
Youth Sports Games tournaments will be held in over 400 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia, for school-age children (primary and secondary) to compete in ten sports (football, street basketball, handball, volleyball, beach volleyball, tennis, table tennis, chess, dodgeball and athletics). The most successful individuals and teams will enter national finals, through which the best performing will qualify for international finals.
In addition to the Youth Sports Games, other free sports and recreational activities are organised regularly for children to promote health, sustainability, tolerance and ethical values. The association promotes a lifestyle based on understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair play.
A special focus is placed on the organisation of football tournaments for girls, which will gather around 27,000 female footballers across the four countries.
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