PLAY International France towards a more inclusive education by using sport and play as powerful tools for learning.
Our ambition is to support teachers and education professionals in implementing innovative teaching tools that address today's societal challenges.
We aim to promote equal opportunities, challenge stereotypes, and create inclusive learning environments. By combining physical activity with collective reflection, we help children and young people better understand the world around them while encouraging emotional expression and cooperation.
Our initiatives are designed to meet the needs of teachers and educational stakeholders through in-person trainings sessions, interactive webinars, and innovative projects. By collaborating with partners such as schools, sports clubs, associations, and educational institutions, we co-create tailored solutions to tackle today's educational challenges.
PLAY International France offers a variety of action to meet the needs of the professionals and support pedagogical innovation through sport and play.
In-person training sessions and workshops
Our in-person training is tailored to teachers and educational professionals. For teachers, we offer three-hour introductory workshops on Playdagogy, approved by the Ministery of Education. For other professionals (youth workers, educators, sports clubs...), we deliver more in-depth 1.5-day sessions, certified by Qualiopi. These immersive trainings mix theory with hands-on experience, allowing participants to both live and lead a session.
Webinars
Our one-hour webinars allow us to reach a broad audience with accessible, interactive content. They present themed play-based sessions and are designed for any education professional seeking quick, practical tools. Topics include emotional regulation, gender equality, and environmental awareness. Each session offers ressources, peer exchange, and live Q&A to dupport day-to-day practice.
Innovative projects
Innovation is central to our work. We co-create projects with field partners based on real needs, using play and physical activity to design inclusive, engaging solutions. Recent examples include Let's PLAY Maths (learning Maths through movement), Gender-inclusive playground games to promote gender equality), and Gender Equality Through Rugby, which adapts our tools for sports clubs.
Each of our programs is designed to support education professionals and promote active, participatory learning for children.
They offer pedagogical ressources and practical tools tailored to various educational settings. By combining hands-on experimentation, training, and ongoing support, our programs address the specific needs of educators while placing the child at the center of the learning process.
We intervene at different stages of children's lives - during school time, after-school activities, or extracurricular settings - to ensure educational continuity. We also collaborate with the specialized sector, particularly in the fields of disability and child welfare, to reach all children and guarantee inclusive, accessible education for everyone.
Promoting social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers through sport: this is the challenge of this programme. Carried by the Playlab over a period of 3 years, it began in Janary 2020 and will end
On the basis of a reverse innovation - by adapting an educational solution developed in the "South" towards developed countries - PLAY International has developed from 2012 the program Playdagogy.
Adolescence represents the period of abandonment of sports activities for young girls (-45%) and young boys (-35%). Period of puberty, it is also the moment of the construction of brilliant
To live symbolically a situation, to be confronted with inequality or discrimination makes it possible to put oneself in the place of ... It favors the empathy and makes it possible to change the representations and also the behaviors.
I regularly train my teams and help them set up sessions that raise children’s awareness of subjects that are sometimes not very easy to tackle. In 2018, a weekly session was organized over a 6-week period, then we scheduled a meeting at the end of the cycle with two other schools. This enabled playground conflicts to be reduced and the presence of girls and the very young to be increased in playground activities. Using games and sport to talk about certain topics enables all children to express themselves, which they don’t really do during debates between children. Education through sport enables children to develop their knowledge of a subject while playing. Amusement enables a subject to be addressed in a fun way so that it becomesmore pertinent.
The idea of themed games, which can be quite constraining in terms of power of action, turned out very useful to collect students’ feedbacks and make connections with “real life” situations. Not that it actually changes representations, but I feel like making students think about these issues through games and making them debate and discuss is a progress for any educator or teacher.
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