In the adult sector, sport represents an open and intercultural platform for international understanding and has overcome borders. Sport itself creates a common identity and therefore plays a central role. The project aims to make youth handball international and promote a sporting and cultural convergence of the regions along the German-Czech border. To this end, an international league for young female handball players is being expanded, established and supplemented with new elements. The strong handball clubs in Saxony and the larger cities in the north of the Czech Republic offer good conditions. Those involved have a great interest in getting to know handball in border regions, its environment and the people behind it. After a very successful initial phase, there are new goals for the future. The aim is to create a long-term connection between the participants and their families from both countries. To this end, the league is being expanded to include an age group B (15-17 years). This allows those involved to meet and exchange ideas regularly over a period of up to 6 years. Tournaments should take place in different cities in the border regions if possible. In this way, participants get to know new cities and regions or present them in a sporting and cultural way. There should be more space for intercultural communication on match days. To make this easier, voice animations are planned for all age groups on a game day. The sporting incentive is to be increased further. In workshops led by experts, trainers should find out the regional differences in sport, attitude and motivation. This results in joint suggestions for training, games and the sporting environment, which make it easier for them to grow closer together. The children are taught the sporting character of equal opportunities and non-discrimination based on their origin at an early stage. You, but also trainers, parents and spectators, experience this character at the many events of the project and thus facilitate and promote the growing together of the border regions beyond sport.

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The most important project goal is the permanent establishment of the international exchange on the league game days. Several measures are planned in the project so that the league can develop as a permanent and sustainable institution. The expansion of the league by an age group enables players between the ages of 11 and 17 to meet regularly over a period of 6 years. This can and should develop relationships that go beyond sport and playing time in the league. In addition to the sporting comparison within the league, sporting cooperations are developing outside of the league itself. The league's presence in online and print media arouses the interest of clubs outside the league in the possibilities of cross-border sporting cooperation. Those involved in the league establish contacts for clubs that cannot be accepted into the league for reasons of capacity. These lead to cross-border sporting cooperation. The permanent and sustainable project also increases interest in the respective host region. This also creates positive impulses for tourism activities. The language animation should help the children and young people to overcome the first threshold in the language barrier to the neighboring country. It is a success when the children and young people in the neighboring country can appear more confident and therefore enjoy staying there and private friendships develop. The international trainer workshops are a special innovation. Here the exchange on sport-specific topics is made possible. Likewise, cultural differences between the two countries should be found, which are ultimately also reflected in the attitudes and motivation of the young athletes towards their sport. The insights gained from this should help to lead players in both countries away from childish sporting activities to lasting enjoyment and performance in handball. The experience of sport and the community as a whole in an international form is an important stimulus here that the project should set.

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