The kick off meeting of the TETRIS project took place online on 17th March 2022.
During the meeting, the seven project partners from Italy, Greece and Cyprus discussed the implementation and dissemination of Project Results, as well as organisational details extensively, agreed on the responsibilities for each partner and set the task priorities for the early stages of the project.
The next Transnational Partner Meeting will be taking place in September 2022. Partners will finally have the opportunity to meet face to face for the first time. The meeting will be hosted by Symplexis in Athens, Greece.
The 1st Transnational Partner Meeting of the TETRIS project was hosted by Symplexis in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, 20th September 2022. Partners from Italy, Greece and Cyprus had the opportunity to meet each other in person for the first time and discuss the projects’ goals, deliverables and workflow in detail.
The project is currently nearing the completion of the first Project Result, PR1 – Collection of good practices and recommendations. The National Reports are expected to be published on the project’s website at the end of November, along with a Transnational Report with promising practices and recommendations on the prevention GBV in the Physical Education sector.
During the very fruitful meeting, the partners also had the opportunity to plan ahead for the upcoming PR2 phase, Development of methodological guidelines and instructions about GBV prevention and combating in the physical education teaching sector. In addition, there was an overview of administrative and financial proceedings, presentation of dissemination and exploitation activities, as well as discussions about the quality management and evaluation activities.
The next in-person transnational meeting is planned to take place in Cyprus in May 2023.
On the 30rd of November 2022 in Trikala, Greece, crucial results of the project “TETRIS” (TEacher’s TRaining to combat gender-based violence In Sports) were presented by the scientific team of the Dept. of Phsyical Edication and Sport Science, University of Thessaly to an audience of 60 students. The team is composed of Dr A. Patsiaouras, Assoc. Prof. A. Bekiari, Prof. Ch. Kouthouris, Dr A. Zafeiroudi, PhD cand. M. Litsa and Mr D. Rousis. “Good practices” were demonstrated, future challenges and potential utilization of acquired data and practical experience were discussed. Greece, Cyprus, and Italy are partners in this project, enabling thereby the exchange of various perspectives and information. The students were quite interested in this issue and in contributing to combating gender-based violence in sports.
TOPIC 1: TETRIS presentation in occasion of the World Day Against Gender Violence, and Italian TV CHANNEL (LCU/SYDIC)
The TETRIS project was presented on two different important occasions by Stefano Armenia, president of the project partner, System Dynamics Italian Chapter (SYDIC). The first dissemination was during the final day of the series of events hosted by Link Campus University to celebrate the World Day Against Gender Violence. This initiative covered, in several events (Nov. 21-25) the issue of a phenomenon that is as sensitive as it is pervasive. Addressing the issue transversally, from legal issues to media representation, the introduction of the TETRIS project on gender-based violence in the sports world highlighted how violence today covers a wide debate: it is not only unidirectional man-woman, but now includes different directions, forms, and above all, genders.
The second occasion featured Armenia as a guest on December 15 on the sports program PianetaSportTV dedicated to the reality of competitive sports in the Lazio region. Here it was emphasized how important it is to find the systemic dynamics of the phenomenon of gender violence in order to be able to – not only – counter it but also to find preventive teaching formulas, both at the level of school education and sports clubs. The various guests on the program, from different sectors of the sports world, found the TETRIS project of great interest, advocating the need to address at the root, and at various levels of scale, the issue of gender-based violence in sports in order to have a healthy and sustainable environment for all young athletes.
The TETRIS 2nd Project Result is dedicated to the development of useful methodological guidelines, tools and instructions that aim at preparing the future Physical Education (PE) teachers for effectively preventing and responding to incidents of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the sport sectors. All partners are currently working on the development of the TETRIS e-course that will combine theory with practice so as to equip the future generation of PE teachers and sport instructors with the necessary knowledge and motivation so as to be more confident and more effective when planning their physical education lessons primarily within the school environment.
The TETRIS e-course will include the following six modules:
- Module 1: Analyzing and Understanding Gender-Based Violence
- Module 2: Exploring GBV in Sports and Physical Education
- Module 3: Policies to tackle GBV
- Module 4: Implementation of policies in Sports Organizations and Schools (PE)
- Module 5: Reporting mechanisms and tools
- Module 6: Supporting survivors of GBV in Sports
#StayTuned for the pilot testing and the official launch of the TETRIS course!
The 2nd Transnational Project Meeting (TPM) of the TETRIS (Teachers’ Training to combat gender-based violence) Erasmus+ project successfully took place in Nicosia, Cyprus 🇨🇾`, between the 22nd and 23rd of June, 2023, organized and hosted by the Center for Social Innovation. During the meeting, the partners had fruitful discussions about the ongoing work into the development of our training material and e-platform (PR2), aimed at empowering educational actors in the sports sector to stand against gender-based violence. Future activities for PR3 were planned and some exciting updates were shared – including a new partnership with BRISWA ITALIA APS. 🇮🇹
