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SPIN Sport Innovation

SPIN Sport Innovation is a social impact business that supports the development and implementation of innovative ideas and practices in the wider area of sport, health and education.

Within these fields, SPIN works with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, which includes higher education institutes, public agents, non-for-profits and businesses from local to international levels. As a specialized facilitator SPIN ensures functional collaboration of cross-sectoral, international consortia.

SPIN provides strategic support to organizations, networks and entire sectors towards sustainable change through innovation. This means, it assists to adjust to changing set-ups, stakeholders’ interests, new duties and responsibilities.

SPIN develops innovative education and learning concepts. It has built a specific set of competencies related to the development of education and training projects and programmes through informal and non-formal learning. This includes the initiation, running and sustaining of communities of practice and local network approaches as a new form of collaborative learning.

SPIN is co-developing the Social Innovation Learning Space Yanuz. Its person-centred communities of practice approach describes a social learning pathway where stakeholders commit to improve a complex social challenge. The current focus of Yanuz is on healthy lifestyles.

Within the larger context of United Nation’s led international cooperation for sustainable development, SPIN applies sport as a tool to build capacity in communities, organisations and for individuals. With youth and young adults being the main target group of sport for development programmes, SPIN´s capacity building approach is centred around education and life skills.

SPIN personnel have more than 15 years’ worth of transnational work experience, covering 40+ EU projects. SPIN staff has been supporting national and international stakeholders in the fields of social innovation, social inclusion, health-enhancing physical activity, volunteering and good governance.