SCORE

SCORE (Strategies and Capacity building for Ovidio Running in Europe) is a Cooperation partnership project funded under Erasmus + Sport program 2022 and intends to define innovative strategies to increase the tourist, cultural and economic exchange between the countries involved through the organization of sport events inspired by common elements. The project envisages local actions for the involvement of local institutions and stakeholders and a mobility of students and staff between the participating countries to exchange experiences and best practices.

The starting point and inspirer of this project is “Ovidio Running”, an Italian event organized in the city of Sulmona since 2016, which combines the typical aspects of a sporting event with cultural elements, being inspired by the figure of the great Latin poet Publio Ovidio Nasone (OVID).  During 2022 the race was repeated for the first time in the city of Costanza, without all the characteristics of the Sulmona model. More information about the 2022 edition on the web site www.ovidiorunning.eu.

Now the main idea the basis of SCORE project is to define a common regulation and to replicate the event in Romania and in Greece, under the same rules and condition, building around stable connection between the cities involved, since they are linked to the poet Ovid by a common historical/cultural element. In fact, the Poet, was born in Sulmona in Italy, educated in the gulf of Corinth in Greece and died, in exile, in the city of Costanza in Romania.

Ovid’s journey to Europe over 2000 years ago becomes a storytelling associated with a sport event and creates stable synergies between the partners involved.

SCORES Consortium

Romania

• University of Constanta “Ovidius” (OUC) – Sport University
• Farul Club Costanza – Sport Club

Italy

• Istituto Ovidio- Liceo G.B VICO-  sport school
• Runners Sulmona – sport club
• EUROPEAN Culture and Sport Organization

Greece

• Homo Educandus Agogi (HEA) – school
• Sport Camp – Sport club

Belgium

• European Platform for sport Innovation