AKYOL SPOR

Title: Erasmus+ Youth Workers Mobility (KA153) – Empowering Grassroots Football Coaches for Youth Development Project Type: Erasmus+ Youth (KA153 – Mobility of Youth Workers) Applicant Organization: Akyol Sports Club – Muğla, Turkey Role in Project: Coordinator Project Summary: Akyol Sports Club is a youth-oriented grassroots sports organization based in Muğla, Turkey, actively operating in youth football training and development. We are preparing a KA153 Youth Workers Mobility project designed to enhance the professional capacities of our football coaches, trainers, and youth leaders. The project focuses on enabling our coaching staff to participate in international job shadowing and structured observation visits at experienced European football clubs and youth academies. By examining modern football training methodologies, youth academy management, match analysis basics, and child-centered coaching techniques abroad, our staff will transfer these good practices back to our local community, improving the overall quality of football training for youth players aged 6–12. Main Objectives: Enhance the professional competencies, technical-tactical pedagogical skills, and modern methodologies of grassroots football coaches and youth workers. Provide international job shadowing and hands-on observation opportunities in European football academies. Promote innovative, inclusive, and child-centered football training approaches for young players. Strengthen long-term international cooperation and network-building between grassroots football organizations across Europe. Transfer successful European football club management and youth development models into local training practices in Turkey. Planned Activities (for KA153): Preparatory transnational coordination meetings with partner organizations. International job shadowing and staff mobility visits for football coaches and club leaders. Peer-to-peer coaching workshops and tactical/technical methodological exchanges during mobility. Local dissemination sessions, workshops, and mentoring activities led by the returning coaches for other club staff. Creation of an internal "Modern Football Coaching & Training Guidelines" booklet based on acquired European best practices. Profile of Partner Organizations We Are Looking For: We are looking for European football clubs, football academies, or sports organizations that: Have solid experience in youth football training, coaching education, or academy management. Work actively in grassroots football development and youth player progression. Are willing to host our football coaches for job shadowing / observation activities and share their methodologies. Have experience in Erasmus+ Youth programmes (KA153/KA152) or a strong motivation to build international cooperation. Expected Partner Countries: Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Belgium, due to their advanced grassroots football infrastructure and youth coaching models. Other Erasmus+ Programme countries dedicated to youth football development and staff mobility. How to Connect With Us: Interested organizations can us directly via the SALTO-YOUTH Otlas platform or reach out via our institutional communication channels with a brief partner profile and expression of interest.