Regional Ministry of Youth and Sport-Regional Government of Extremadura
	Spain
Role : Coordinator
Website : http://www.jovenesydeporte.es/
Contact: Jordi Salido This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The “Regional Ministry of Youth and Sports” - Regional Government of Extremadura, is a regional administration regularly involved in policy and administrative activities. The Ministry of Youth and Sports exercise the competencies in terms of youth initiatives and sports policy.

The body is divided into the following boards: General Secretariat, General Direction of Sport, Cabinet of Youth Initiative and Institute for Youths.

Form also part of the Ministry: the Board of Directors and the Cabinet of the Minister.

The Regional Ministry of Youth and Sports supports territorial youth development and therefore pays particular attention to EU policies, through the realization of community, national and regional projects and through the definition of guidelines for sport policies within the European Union. Playing a major role in the development of policies aimed at Sport Activity, merges specially one agency D.G of Sport.

Its General Powers are:

- Promotion, coordination and support of sport

- Promotion of sportive schools

- Promotion of social and institutional initiatives, to encourage the Society and Institutions to exercise and enjoy such activities as citizens.

In this, one of the main achievements of the D.G of Sport has been all the annual work addressed to develop a kind of initiatives and agencies that promote the sport. These subsidiaries organizations have been consolidated and today we can speak of the following institutions:

has worked hard to develop a kind of initiatives and agencies that promote the sport. These subsidiaries have been consolidated and today we can speak of the following institutions:

- Sports Committees

- Extremadura Sports Federations

- Sports Training Center of Extremadura

In this way the Regional Ministry of Youth and Sports” - Regional Government of Extremadura, could play a main role in the S²-Port Proposal as a main partner with a wide background in the field of Sport Activities and Sport Policies promoting a new concept of multicultural field of action.

Involvement in the project:

The Regional Ministry of Youth and Sport-Regional Government of Extremadura as coordinator together with the European Projects Office forms the link between the Newly created Network and the European Commission. Regional Ministry of Youth and Sport-Regional Government of Extremadura takes over the responsibility and coordination for management, partner communication, implementation and coordination of activities among the partners involved. For a detailed description of activities and responsibilities see Work Plan.

The Regional Ministry is therefore leader of WP1 (project management). It also participates actively in WP2 (conceptualization), by recollecting and recording relevant practices, in WP3 (where it is actively involved in the design of the model and its contents and support materials), in WP4 (where it validates the

methodology in its region) and WP 5, where it is in charge of European wide dissemination as well as the dissemination on regional level.

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