The City Council is asking the sports community to participate in the design of “Educar Entrenando”

The Sports Department of the Tenerife Island Council is currently conducting the diagnostic phase of the “Educar Entrenando” program. To this end, it has developed a series of anonymous participatory surveys aimed at the island’s sports community, with the aim of gathering information that will enable the development of a plan tailored to the current and future needs of grassroots sports.

The Island Councilor for Sports, Concepción Rivero, encourages everyone directly or indirectly involved in sports in Tenerife to participate in this assessment, “which will allow us to learn firsthand what is happening at the grassroots level, what athletes, clubs, professionals, and families themselves are asking for, and what guidelines we should follow in designing this innovative program, through which we aim to ensure that grassroots sports are appropriate, healthy, safe, and of high quality.”

Concepción Rivero explains that the families of athletes in Tenerife can participate in these surveys via the link https://tinyurl.com/y33jcxgj, while coaches can do so via the link https://tinyurl.com/y6kwnjco. Sports clubs wishing to participate in the survey for management and coordinators should do so by sending an email to educarentrenando@fg.ull.es. The links are available on the Deportes Tenerife website at https://deportestenerife.es/programas/educar-entrenando/.

For her part, the island’s director of sports, Laura Castro, highlights the importance of “Educar Entrenando,” “an innovative experimental pilot project we’re working on with great enthusiasm, one in which we directly involve athletes, families, and clubs (management and coaching staff) because they are fundamental pillars of grassroots sports—a project in which we also incorporate the essential comprehensive gender perspective.”

This project is based on Participatory Action Research (PAR) through a psychosocial research method that relies on the participation of various stakeholders in the island’s sports sector, and will be carried out by the Social Innovation Laboratory at the University of La Laguna.

Laura Castro emphasizes that “for school-age children, participating in sports is a vital means of socialization, community building, and learning, which is why we have decided to use this powerful tool to instill, spread, and promote civic and social values that help build a society in which everyone, without distinction, can find a place and be respected.”