Sport welcomes Refugees

Specific action dedicated to newly-arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: VIDC - fairplay initiative

Status of the project owner:  National NGO / European network of NGOs and sport organisations called SPIN (Sport Inclusion Network)

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

Austria

 Finland

 Germany

 Greece

 Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Portugal

Geographic scope of project: International

Project objective: Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency / Develop competences for active citizenship / Promote access to volunteering in sport

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: Not specified

Partnership / supports: Grants / Human resources

Project duration: 2 years (start: 1.1.2017 / end: 31.12.2018)

Project status: Underway

Supervising staff: Professionals

Summary of the project: This ERASMUS+ sports project aims at enhancing the social inclusion and participation of newly arrived migrants at different levels of sport through training, awareness-raising and capacity-building of sports stakeholders. The project's workstreams include building an evidence-base (good-practice and developing quality criteria for inclusive sports projects), training and qualification of sports educators and clubs (training programme and online platform: sports clubs opening doors for refugees and migrants), Respect refugees campaigning and raising public awareness (Refugee welcome events during FARE Action Weeks in October 2018), capacity-building of sport initiatives with newly arrived migrants, European networking and policy development (European Networking Conference in Lisbon in Nov. 2018).

TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: Not specified

Type of migration: Refugee / Asylum seeker / Economic migrant / Environmental migrant

Target beneficiary:Families

Target age group: 11 - 60