Table of Best Practices of Projects Focusing on the Inclusion of Migrant & Refugee Women through Sports
Project Title Organization Partners (if applicable) Target Group Objectives Useful Links
REWINS (REfugee Women’s Inclusion through Sports)
FARE Network
(UK/NL) ● Organization Earth (GR)
● Girl Power Organization (DK)
● Polisportiva San Precario (IT)
Refugee
women ● The creation of refugee women football team
● Weekly training sessions
● Monthly empowering workshops
https://farenet.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/11/Rewins_
ResearchStudy.pdf
INSPIRE (Integration through Sport and Inclusion for Refugees in Europe)
FARE Network
(UK/NL) ● Les Dégommeuses (FR)
● Fundacja dla Wolności (PL)
Refugee
women ● Identification of refugees’ needs for and barriers to participation in local sport activities
● Support the provision of sporting activities and providing opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers at grassroots sport level
● Develop a transferable methodology based on the findings.
https://www.farenet.org/u ncategorized/integration- of-refugee-women- through-sport-continues- as-inspire-project-makes- progress/
https://www.farenet.org/u ncategorized/inspire- project-continues-with- fundacja-dla-wolnosci- summer-sessions-for- refugees-in-warsaw/
Kicking
girls: Easy access to girls (GER)
Kicking Girls
(GER) Various schools (GER) Women and girls with migrant background
● Get girls moving
● Arouse a lasting interest in sport and exercise through shared experiences
https://kicking-girls.info/
Peer Instructor Training for Migrant Women (FIN)
Kisakeskus Sport Institute (FIN)
- Ethnic
Minority Women
● Activities to raise awareness of the importance of a physically active lifestyle
● Make women engage with other people to avoid social exclusion.
More female migrants in sports (GER)
German Olympic Sports Federation (GER)
Federal Ministry of Health
(GER) Migrant and
ethnic
minority girls and women
● Better access to women to participate in sport related activities with the promotion of social and professional competences
Spin-Sport Interkulturell (GER)
regional sport alliance of North Rhine Westphalia (GER)
● Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (GER)
● Ministry for Generations, Family,
Women (GER)
Girls and women with an immigration background
● Support sport clubs as
«institutions of borough-related integration
● Enable a systematic encouragement of the process of inclusion
https://www.projekt-spin.de/
SIQ! (Sport
Integration Qualification!) (AT)
Caritas &Du
(AT) ● Tor. Chance (AT)
● GAK Juniors (AT)
● Girls' center JA.M (AT)
● Institute for Sports Science (AT)
Third country nationals, , EU citizens and Austrians with a migration background between 6 and 21 years of age
● Range of offers for the increased integration of girls and women in and about sport
● Sports and labor market integrative offers for young boys
https://www.caritas- steiermark.at/hilfe- angebote/migrantinnen-
fluechtlinge/integration/siq-sport- integration-qualifikation/
Table of Projects Focusing on the Inclusion of At-Risk of Exclusion Populations
Project Title Organization Partners (if applicable) Target Group Objectives Useful Links
Indiscipline paths: active lifestyles and street sports for the protection of adolescence
Unione Italiana Sport Per Tutti – UISP (ITA)
Young people aged 14-20 mainly with migrant
background
• Testing a model of action aimed at recovering adolescents from physical activity
• Intercepting the expressed or latent needs
of young people
• Encourage the construction of moments
of real sociality
• Facilitate the active
protagonism of adolescents
• Recover the liveability of urban and / or peripheral areas as spaces for sports gathering
• Promote spaces for effective collaboration
http://www.uisp.it/nazionale/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Uk2FNkCh-7g
MATCH
Project CESIE (ITA) ● Handala (ITA)
● Fasto University of Sarajevo (BHI)
● Euricon (NL)
● Footura – Union for Development of Sports and Sport Culture (BG)
● Greek Forum of Refugees (GR)
● Club Natacio
Banyoles (ESP)
Children, teenagers
and adults (both Italian and with migrant
background)
• Creation of a city model based on the idea of pluralism and inclusion
https://cesie.org/
Rights in the field: Sport for everyone and
for an intercultural
society)
Unione Italiana Sport Per Tutti – UISP (ITA)
1st and 2nd generation migrant citizens Sports managers and referees
● Fostering social inclusion of 1st and 2nd generation migrants through the Uisp vision
● Development of new methodologies to contrast social exclusion
● Raising of public awareness on the links between fight against poverty and social exclusion
● Engagement of local entities (sport clubs,
http://www.uisp.it/nazionale/
migrant associations) for
future initiatives
● Training provision to encourage people with migration background to establish and improve the management of sport clubs
HATTRICK Die Berater
(AUT) ● BUPNET (GER)
● Centrum voor Europese Studies en Opleidingen Netherlands (NL)
● CENTRO STUDI INITIATIVE EUROPEO ED (ITL)
● SCOP ADREP (FR)
● Euroinform (BG)
● Doncaster College (GB)
Young migrants Young adults at risk of exclusion Football coaches working with this target group
● Systematically expansion a range of competences acquired in football and needed in professional life to open a new informal pathway to education by exploring football clubs
● Need to improve communication skills, develop ability to observe the group and its dynamics, stimulate self- reflections relating own role in the group/ working with the group
https://dieberater.com/
https://www.bridgestoeurope.com/
en/hattrick-project/
https://www.bridgestoeurope.com/
wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HATTRIC K_Good_Practice_brochure_EN.pdf
Mediterraneo
Antirazzista Centro Studi ed
Iniziative Public authorities of:
● Catania
● Lampedusa
Children and
adults living ● Promotion intercultural relationships between people with different
https://cesie.org/
Europeo – CESIE
(ITA) ● Naples
● Rome
● Genova
● Milan
in deprived areas
Migrant communities Asylum seekers Refugees
living in reception
centers
backgrounds living in Palermo by using sport- based activities, i.e.
football, basket, cricket, volleyball and rugby
● Including non-competitive sport tournaments, art exhibitions, concerts, intercultural parties and debates aimed at promoting diversity
https://associazionehandala.org/pr ogetti/mediterraneo-antirazzista/
PLAYMAKER
PROGRAM GAME (DNK) ● Copenhagen municipality
● Esbjerg municipality
● Aarhus municipality
● Nordea foundation
● Sandholm asylum center.
Children and young people (15- 24)
● Playmakers meet with other young people from all over the country. They receive training as instructors in street basketball, street football, street fit, street dance and youth leadership
● Conflict management,
teamwork and empowerment of participants
http://gamedenmark.org/en/about- game/
ASPIRE European No-
Government Sport
Organization – ENGSO (SWE)
● Caritas Akademie (ESP)
● The Sports
Federation Union of Catalonia (ESP)
Refugees ● Focus on social inclusion in relation to people who are in risk of exclusion, especially refugees
● Offering suitable participation
opportunities for refugees in and through sport by the provision of training and coaching for facilitators across Europe
https://www.aspiresport.eu/index.p hp/
https://www.engso.eu/
Integration
through sport Bulgarian sports development association (BGR)
● Bulgarian Sports Development Association (BGR)
● GreenRope (ITA)
● Remenyt a Gyermekeknek
Kozhasznu (HUN)
● Rijecki sportski savez (CRO)
● Opstinska organizacija Crveni kriz Novo Sarajevo (BHV)
Young people 16 – 30 years old, with different
background and experience
who are interested in the topic of integration
● Establish new models and patterns of integration, by providing young people with proper tools
● Empowers young people to promote different attitude to the fast- changing reality in Europe and make them multipliers of the sport values in the process of integration through sport
● Raise knowledge and gain new experiences on sport
https://intsport.wordpress.com/do wnloads/
● EUROTEAM (CZE)
● A.D.E.L. – Association for Development, Education and Labour (SK)
● Asociación DESES-3 (ESP)
● Clarify the challenges of sport as a tool for integration and education regarding to content and methodology
● Create a network of motivated young people, who can act as multipliers in their local communities
● Raise awareness on personal, social and professional realization of the participants.
● Develop the potential of young people, with accent of young people from minorities and immigrant background within education and employment
● Raise empathy in the participants to people from minorities and with immigrant background
