The grassroots sport sector takes pride in sharing good practices and ISCA, as part of our ongoing work, has become aware of many practices that have proven so successful that transferring them to other settings would seem a very valuable investment. But this has not often happened.
That is why ISCA created the MOVE Transfer methodology. MOVE Transfer aims to transfer and scale up good examples of grassroots sport initiatives from organisation to organisation, from city to city, and from country to country.
Transferring (also referred to as Transfer) is a process of exchange, by which a physical activity initiative, the knowledge behind it and the professional expertise of the organisation that runs it is transferred from one organisation to another organisation and implemented by the new organisation.
Scaling up (also referred to as Scale-up) is a process in which a physical activity initiative is increased in scope or coverage within the same organisation and country. With the scale up process, the number of participants/users/target groups reached by the physical activity initiative is expected to increase and in turn enhance the initiative’s implementation and the capacity of the organisation as a whole.
Would you like to transfer an initiative?
When MOVE Transfer started in 2013, we aimed to scale-up and transfer good examples of grassroots sport initiatives for hard-to-reach populations at a national and international level:
MOVE Transfer national, a 10-month process of transferring successful initiatives from one organisation and community to another organisation and community in the same country.
MOVE Transfer international, an 18-month process of transferring good examples from one country to another country
The MOVE Transfer national and international processes involved extensive consultation from ISCA and an advisory board appointed especially to the project. This served to develop the capacity of the initiatives and the organisations delivering them in both settings. By the end of the project, 16 national and 10 international transfers have been completed.
MOVE Transfer national initiatives in 2015/2016: |
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Fair Play Football Roadshow, Oltalom Sport Association, Hungary: Roma youth who are facing discrimination and racism |
TE.IS Program, Hungarian School Sport Federation, Hungary: Underprivileged students from the Hungarian convergence regions |
Club TE (Think Extreme), MOVE, Malta: Youth from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and refugees |
Social inclusion in/through sport, Sports Union of Slovenia (SUS): Children with physical disabilities |
BE Special, Association Sport for All Suceava, Romania: Special Olympics athletes |
Mountain for all (La montagna per tutti), UISP - Comitato Trento, Italy: Blind people |
Active Tuesdays, South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture, Scotland: Seniors |
Every Step Counts (Elke stap telt), OKRA-SPORT, Belgium: Seniors |
MOVE Transfer international initiatives in 2015/2016: | ||
Initiative | Transfer organisation | Receiving organisation |
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Active Age | DTB, Germany | Czech Sokol Organisation, Czech Republic |
Active Parks | Birmingham City Council, UK | V4SPORT Foundation, World Games 2017 and Municipality of Wroclaw, Poland |
Doorstep Sport Clubs | StreetGames, UK | Independent Organisation for Sport Education in Kosovo (OESK) |
Summer on the MOVE | Kunsill Malti għall-iSport, Malta | Serbian Sport for All Association, Serbia |
Sports Outreach | Ulster University, Belfast, N. Ireland | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy |
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Transfer of Sports Outreach from Ulster University (Northern Ireland) to University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy)