Exercise Brings People Together: Staying Healthy and Active Together

Building Skills Together—for Physical Activity, Community, and a New Sports Model for Vienna.

“Exercise Brings People Together: Staying Healthy and Active Together ” (project acronym BEGGA) is an Erasmus+ sports mobility project through which Tredu Club is expanding its organizational and technical expertise in the field of community sports. The project focuses on how low-threshold, low-cost physical activity programs can be firmly established directly in Vienna’s neighborhoods—without pressure to perform, without high barriers to entry, but with a strong sense of community.

As a young sports club, Tredu Club is still in the process of building its organizational structure. Through job shadowing and internships with our experienced partner organization in Cyprus, we’re gaining practical, real-world knowledge about club management, volunteer coordination, and the implementation of community-based sports programs—and applying it directly to our work in Vienna.

📍 Key data on the project

🌍 Project Type: Erasmus+ Mobility for Sports Personnel (KA182-SPO)
📅 Project duration: June 2026 – May 2027
✈️ Preliminary visit: Summer 2026, as part of the ACPELIA Sports Festival
✈️ Job Shadowing & Work Experience: November 11–18, 2026 (including travel days)
📌 Location: Pissouri, Cyprus
👥 Participants:
– 2 people from the administrative department
– 6 people from the sports community (coaches, volunteers)

🤝 Hosting Organization: ACPELIA – Active Cypriot Programs and European Learning Into Acceptance, Cyprus

🌿 Contents & focal points

🏗️ Building Sustainable Club Structures
– Insights into Proven Administrative and Organizational Processes
– Role assignments, standard processes, quality and safety procedures
– Avoiding common pitfalls in the early stages of a club’s development

🤸 Knowledge Transfer for Community Sports
– Hands-on learning at ACPELIA: Observation and participation in organization, stakeholder communication, volunteer coordination, and event logistics
– low-barrier formats that reach people directly in their neighborhoods
– ways to reach new target groups and collaborate with local stakeholders

🌍 Building a European network
– Strengthening a stable partnership with ACPELIA beyond the project
– Joint further development and future collaboration

📋 Development of a community sports model for Vienna
– Compilation of best practices and success factors from Cyprus
– Development of a basic model tailored to Vienna: target groups, access pathways, partnership framework, resources
– The model will also be made available to other clubs in the future

💚 What have we learned from this project?

✨ Practical, tried-and-true knowledge for building our club’s structures
✨ Specific formats and checklists for community sports in Vienna
✨ a strong partnership with an experienced European organization
✨ Greater visibility for Erasmus+ Sport within our network
✨ New Approaches to Inclusion, Sustainability, and Digitalization in Our Club’s Work