Football Including Refugees in Europe (FIRE)

Specific action dedicated to newly-arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: Sport and Citizenship Think Tank

Status of the project owner: International NGO

Area of work of the project owner: Sport / Migration / Youth / Social integration / Intercultural Exchange / Health / Citizenship / Gender equality
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PROJECT

France

Geographic scope of project: International

Project objective: Promote social diversity / Develop language skills / Practice a physical activity for physical/mental health / Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency / Support grassroots football organisation, cross-sector partnerships and capacity-building related to promoting inclusion through football and sport; Foster grassroots ‘local activation’ pilots, based on employing football as a tool for social inclusion and development; Develop, share and exchange good practices of football promoting social inclusion; Raise awareness around sport, physical activity, volunteering and non-formal education as tools for social change

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: Football

Partnership / supports: Grants (Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission

Project duration: 2 years (start: 01.01.2019 / end: 31.12.2020)

Project status: Underway

Supervising staff: Professionals / Volunteers

Summary of the project: FIRE aims at promoting inclusion, participation, socialisation and access to sport for asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees. More specifically, FIRE intends to enhance the fostering of intercultural openness in football clubs by empowering and supporting them to work with the specified target group. Sport enables to bring people together regardless of their nationality, citizenship, cultural background, legal status or any other variables of the likes. Ultimately, the FIRE project seeks to deliver a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that will contain suggestions, best practices, success factors and risk mitigation to help local football clubs to implement programmes welcoming and integrating refugees. Several conferences will be held across Europe during the 24 months of the project, to showcase the project’s mapping of the best practical and political practices; and a handful of selected local interventions will take place during FARE Network’s 2019 Football People action weeks. Both the interventions and conferences will enable the project consortium to present and discuss their work with experienced and potential stakeholders, making for the perfect occasions to adjust the MOOC’s content to the expressed need.

Sport migrant integration platform

Football Including Refugees in Europe (FIRE)

Specific action dedicated to newly-arrived migrants