COMITATO TERRITORIALE CENTRO SPORTIVO ITALIANO DI BARI APS

The Center is a nonprofit, volunteer-based association that promotes sports as a time of education, growth, commitment and social gathering. Among the oldest sports promotion associations in our country, the CSI responds to a demand for sports that is not only numerical but qualified on a cultural, human and social level. Young people have always been its main focus, although the sports activities promoted are aimed at every age group. Educating through sports is the mission of the Center . This is now established in the practice and consciousness of the association at all levels. Educating through sport is the mission of the Italian Sports Center. This is well established in the practice and consciousness of the association at all levels. Sport as understood by the CSI can also be a tool of prevention toward some particular social pathologies such as loneliness, fears, doubts, and deviance of the youngest. An organized, continuous, serious sports activity, promoted by educators, coaches, referees, and managers who are aware of their educational "mandate," in fact, helps young people to go beyond, to abandon selfishness and to face the road of sharing, testing the limit, and self-knowledge. Precisely for this reason, the CSI provides an articulation of the sports proposal in respect of the ages and needs of each athlete, thus allowing them to discover the best of themselves, to learn to know their bodies, to value them, to esteem them. Acknowledgements The CSI is a nationwide sports promotion body recognized by the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI). It is an Entity accredited to the National School of Sport of CONI to carry out educational activities aimed at the issuance of technical qualifications recognized by the National System of Qualifications of Sports Technicians (SNaQ). It is recognized by the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP) as a Paralympic Sports Promotion Body. It is recognized by the Italian Episcopal Conference as a Christian-inspired association. It is recognized by the Ministry of the Interior as a national organization with charitable purposes. It is registered in the National Register of Social Promotion Associations, recognized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, and can operate as a national Third Sector association network. It is recognized by the Ministry of Education and Merit (MIUR) as an accredited body for the training of school personnel. It has a Memorandum of Understanding with the same Ministry for the organization and promotion of awareness and information actions aimed at students, teachers and parents on the value of sports practice,as well as training, refresher courses and meeting opportunities for teachers and parents. It has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Justice for the promotion of reintegration and social inclusion activities aimed at minors gravitating in the external penal area. The CSI has also entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Prison Administration for the implementation of motor-sports activities in favor of individuals serving prison sentences. It has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Health to promote and facilitate the assumption of healthy habits by the population with a view to the prevention of major chronic diseases. It is an Entity accredited in the second class by the National Office for Civil Service for the management of voluntary civil service projects. It is part of the National Council of Lay Aggregations (CNAL), a body promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI). The CSI is a member of the Crescere al Sud alliance for the promotion of the rights of children and adolescents in the regions of southern Italy and, in this perspective, also adheres to the CRC group for monitoring the implementation of the Charter of the Rights of Children and Adolescents in Italy. It is a member of the Permanent Forum of the Third Sector, the National Youth Forum and has signed cooperation agreements with the Italian Parents Association.