The European Commission Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture has published calls for proposals linking sport and social inclusion. Sport can play a role in dealing with diverse social challenges including migration, marginalization and radicalization, and may contribute to enhance European values such as tolerance, integration and intercultural dialogue. Consequently, the opportunities that sport projects provide to support social inclusion of the most vulnerable and at risk in our society are being increasingly developed in many EU Member States.
- Call for Proposals: Monitoring and coaching, through sports, of youngsters at risk of radicalisation
This action aims at supporting sport-related projects organised by local actors and civil society that focus on prevention of marginalisation and radicalisation, in particular in helping youngsters at risk of exclusion and of radicalisation to find an identity and a sense of belonging. Projects should aim at teaching essential skills such as social and communicative competences, critical thinking and problem solving, that can help youngsters at the margin of societies to feel reengaged into society. This project aims to involve EU local sport organisation that, in cooperation with local authorities responsible for radicalisation and terrorism, will identify people at risk of radicalisation and will offer them appropriatre coaching so to try prevent radicalisation processes.
Deadline: 18th August 2017
More information can be found via the call for proposals.
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- Call for proposals: Sport as a tool for integration and social inclusion of refugees
As sport is one of the tools that might be used for the successful integration of refugees, local sport projects in particular may have an increasing role in trying to facilitate refugees’ integration into new communities. This call aims at supporting local sport projects focused on the integration of refugees. These projects should involve local sport organisations and take into account gender equality, in particular by involving women refugees in sport activities.
Beyond concrete actions aiming at integrating refugees through sport, the expected outcomes include:
- Promoting the direct engagement of refugees and host communities in the project.
- Designing a project which can be disseminated, and in this sense, promoting a Europe-wide approach, increasing the potential for European host communities to successfully engage and integrate refugees through sport.
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Deadline: 18th August 2017
More information can be found via the call for proposals.