ABOUT Idealverein für Sportkommunikation und Bildung (ISB)

"The Idealverein für Sportkommunikation und Bildung e.V. (ISB) is a young and modern sports club which manages the Bewegte Ganztagsschule programme (“active full time school“), an afternoon programme in full-time schools in and around Schweinfurt including sports, lunch and homework supervision. In addition, the ISB engages several other social projects and thereby fosters social integration.

In December 2007, eleven young people founded the ISB in Schweinfurt a city in the northern region of Bavaria. The club’s focus of attention is not professional elite sports; rather, it offers sports programmes with a special focus on health promotion. In addition, the ISB acknowledges the educational potential of sport and its contribution to the development of self-competence and social competences. For example, the club supports the idea that sport can convey values such as fairness, discipline, patience and reliability. Children can be strengthened in their self-perception and their self-efficacy perceived from experience.

According to the goals and principles of the ISB, every individual has the right to participate in the social system of “sport”. The ISB wants to prevent social exclusion by making sport accessible to all groups, including children attending full-time schools, children from precarious family conditions, and older people. The ISB is aware of the fact that other clubs have also gained the insight that sport has other effects in addition to the development of motoric activities and functions. However, instead of waiting for members, the club decided to approach certain groups within the scope of its offers and projects. This strategy seems to have paid off, because although membership growth has not been a dedicated goal of the ISB, the club has experienced above-average growth in membership enrolment since its foundation.

Moreover, the ISB would like to motivate other sports clubs to imitate their model and the club therefore provides consulting services through training sessions and the communication of shared experiences."

The Vision of Idealverein für Sportkommunikation und Bildung (ISB)

Health for all.

The Mission of Idealverein für Sportkommunikation und Bildung (ISB)

We are constantly discovering new perspectives to enable health for all. Let’s get more and more people and systems moving, first as a pioneer, then as a companion for you and your ideas – ideas create movement.