Sport Together – Strengthening Cross-Community Social Inclusion in Post-Conflict Regions
The overall objective of the “Sport Together” project is to strengthen social inclusion in divided communities with a focus on young people and girls and to increase participation of disadvantaged groups – in particular refugees & newly-arrived migrants and minorities – in grass-roots sport through training, education, awareness-raising, capacity-building of sport stakeholders and cross-community youth sport interventions.
The project will use sport to tackle cross-border threats to social cohesion. First, the ongoing ethno-political divisions in the Western Balkan & Ireland. Second, the continued challenges following the so called EU “refugee crisis”.
Main events include a kick-off meeting in Belfast, a European Training Session for Multipliers in Belgrade in autumn 2021 followed by National Workshops in all seven partner countries, a Girls Football Festival in July 2022 in Vienna, inclusive grassroots events in the European Week of Sport 2022, a Networking Meeting in Sarajevo and a final cross-border Mini-Van Tour in 3 countries.
Project Partners
Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC) / fairplay Initiative (Austria)
Football Association of Ireland (FAI) (Ireland)
Irish Football Association (IFA) (Northern Ireland / UK)
Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Atina – Citizens’ Association for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and all Forms of Gender-Based Violence (Serbia)
University of Thessaly (UTH) (Greece)
Donegal Sports Partnership (DSP) (Ireland)
Nogometni klub “Zagreb 041” (Croatia)
