Welcoming through Sport

Specific action dedicated to newly-arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: German Olympic Sports Confederation

Status of the project owner:  National NGO

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

Germany

Geographic scope of project: National

Project objective: Develop competences for active citizenship / Acceed to skills for labour market/employment / Promote social diversity / Develop language skills / Educate and transmit values through sport /Practice a physical activity for physical/mental health / Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency / Promote access to volunteering in sport

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: A big variety of sports including sports from countries of origin

Partnership / supports: --

Project duration: Null (start: 2015 / end: 2018)

Project status: Underway

Supervising staff: Professionals and Volunteers

Summary of the project: The launch of the “Welcoming through Sport” project  in 2015 was one of the answers to the migration of millions of refugees to Western Europe in the last three years. The project is coordinated by the German Olympic Sports Confederation DOSB as a complement to the DOSB federal programme “Integration through Sport”. “Welcoming through Sport” is supported and promoted by DOSB and the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees. The amount of their support reached 400.000 Euro in 2018. Sports clubs involved in the project contribute to the project by 10%. At federal level 8 federal states sports federations are implementing the project. At the beginning of the project focus was given to low-threshold sports activities for refugees. Now refugees are being involved in all sports clubs activities, including functions at the board level. Sports offered in the framework of “Welcoming through Sport” are designed according to the interests of the target group. Cricket, boxing or aerobics for women are some examples. All experiences made in the framework of “Welcoming through Sport” will be absorbed into DOSB's federal programme “Integration through Sport” and contribute to its development.

TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: All countries

Type of migration: Refugee / Asylum seeker / Economic Migrant / Environmental Migrant / Migrant in transit

Target beneficiary: Families / Children / Teenager-Young people / Men only / Women only / Elderly

Target age group: 5 to more than 60