Category: Programm

The program “Junior Ambassador Anti-Discrimination” started with a virtual kick-off on Saturday, 04 July 2020.

In the coming weeks, the candidates will develop ideas for the implementation of activities and measures to bring the motto “Discrimination has no place in our baseball and softball sport” to life.

The program will be conducted responsibly by the Chairman of the Board of the German Baseball and Softball Youth, Thomas Bieth, and with the active support of various speakers.

For the first round of the program 10 young athletes from all over Germany have applied.

As a first result of the program, a chat bot was implemented on the website, which allows victims of discrimination to quickly and easily access a list of contact persons and local aid organizations.

The junior ambassadors the dsj are young people who voluntarily take responsibility for social and (sports) political issues with which they identify. They stand up for something that is important to them, help shape it, become active and initiate their own projects in their sports clubs and associations. In the qualification offers of the dsj, they acquire knowledge and skills that enable them to position themselves on their topics and to place their message in sport.

The voluntary engagement as junior ambassador*in is something special. The engagement is not limited to a certain period of time and you don’t have to be elected to be able to get involved. It is a modern and flexible form of engagement that offers a lot of freedom to develop yourself, to realize your own ideas in a self-determined way and to bring a socially important topic into your own sports club or association.

In the “Orientation Framework for Junior Ambassadors in German Sports Youth”, the goals that the dsj associates with this form of voluntary commitment are presented. The role of the Junior Ambassadors in the dsj and its member organisations is also described.

The dsj currently offers Junior Ambassadors and qualification seminars for four topics:

• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
• Participation and diversity
• Doping prevention
• Protection of children and minors

The DBV’s “Anti-Discrimination” program now adds another thematic area.