Amateur Olimpic Games

Lack of physical activities, physical education and sport in schools, civic apathy and lack of democratic skills and interest for the common good (" if everyone smokes, why can not I do it, If it’s easier to drive , why should I walk ?") are leading to environmental degradation in which we live and grow. People in our society, and especially young people, do not care enough to their health , do not understand the importance to make physical exercises and are not aware of their importance to their lives, to increase their level of life and achieving standards high . Young people need to realize and understand this issue and begin to take responsibility for it.

Because it's easier to develop than to change mentalities, Association „Mode of Life” from Drobeta Turnu Severin believes that through the activities and projects designed and led by youth, participants will be taught by experience what it means to be a better and responsible citizen, serving their interests and especially the interest of the community to which they belong.

Each of us , as a community representative, has the power and duty to influence the education of the young generation and the solution lies in the awareness of young people in our society and the important role they have in the form of physical exercise of races and competitions are fun and entertaining, so in an organized (competitions) and leisure time (holidays) .
AMATEUR OLYMPIC GAMES project is the result of the initiative of a group of 10 young people from six associates, aged between 15 and 40 years, who has, over the years, participated in various sporting activities in order to attract young people to move and to give people of all age opportunities to increase their quality of life through sports.

In this context, our project aims to promote active and responsible attitude and training to the phenomenon of movement and sport in general , and the target group is over 500 people aged over 18 years.

Project activities:
 Project launch;
 Preparatory meeting (developing the official logo of the competition and of the project, regulation of the competition, website’s contain, posters development,etc)- a 2 days meeting;
 Web page development;
 Meeting of the team project (in each of the 6 parter countries);
 Selection of the volunteers;
 Local workshops-Training course with the volunteers in each of the 6 countries parters (how to organize competition, regulations of the sport branches, etc);
 Local competition (in each country);
 International competition (15 people from each country, selected after the local competition, will participate at Amateur Olympic Games that will take place in Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania). During 6 days, 90 people (man and women) will race for the medals and prizes of the Games. For the beginning, the games will contain football, basketball, volleyball, chess, darts, lawn tennis, table tennis, cross country running, swimming and non formal sports (pulling ropes, race bags, etc)
 Finalizing the website, the video of the project and also a good practice manual for the future editions of the Amateur Olympic Games;
 Dissemination of the results in a 3 days meeting that will take place in a parters’ country(different from preparatory meeting and International competition);

Participants profile:
 highly motivated
 aged over 18
 actively involved in sport and youth work
 ready to participate to sports competition and act as multipliers at local, regional, national and international level
 ready to become a volunteer in sport and learn how to become a sport competition organizer
 You are legally established in a country belonging to one of the following groups:
- the 27 EU member states
- Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland

 Minimum 100 participants per country (each partner will represent a country or a region from a country, so we believe it’s not going to be a problem to achieve this number)