ECOGAME - Gamified Eco-Learning Framework for Children’s Sports
Call: ERASMUS-SPORT- 2025-CB
Type of Action: ERASMUS-SPORT- 2025-CB
Project acronym: ECOGAME
Duration: 12 month (1.01.2026-31.12.2026)
EU Contribution: €98 512,76

Partners
Charity Organisation Shakhtar Social (Ukraine) - Coordinator
Hromadska Organizatsiia Vseukrainske Fizkultur (Ukraine)
Instytut Rozwoju Sportu i Edukacji (Poland)
Ionas Department of Therapeutic Education and Sports for People with Disabilities (Greece)

ECOGAME is aimed at integrating environmental education into grassroots sports through a gamified approach. The project addresses the lack of ecological education in Ukraine by equipping sports educators with tools to teach children aged 8-12 environmental basics through football, volleyball, and swimming training sessions.
The primary objective is to develop and implement a Digital Toolkit of structured, gamified resources for integrating environmental education into children's sports training. This toolkit will provide educator materials, interactive session plans and gamified challenges, ensuring that eco-learning becomes an engaging and accessible part of training.
Initial research on best EU practices in eco-education will be followed by framework development and adaptation to different sports contexts. A one-month pilot phase will take place, where trained educators will test the framework in real training environments.
Feedback from coaches and participants will be collected to refine the methodology before full-scale implementation, involving 500 children across Ukraine and Greece and holding 20 orkshops/seminars for staff involved and representatives of Ukrainian grassroots sport. An eco-sport festival in Ukraine will showcase the project's outcomes, with children demonstrating their ecoknowledge through sports-based activities, while the ECOGAME Digital Toolkit with lesson plans, gamified challenges, and instructional resources will be adopted by at least 20 Ukrainian grassroots sports organizations as an outcome of collaborative media campaign.
Essential part of the project is the promotion of shared European values, such as inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration. Through exchange experiences between EU partners and Ukrainian trainers, the project seeks to enhance mutual learning, strengthen cultural understanding, and facilitate the transfer of best practices in youth development and sports education.