In 2021 the municipalities of Haifa (Israel), Ioannina (Greece) and Limassol (Cyprus) were awarded an inter-city grant by the Intercultural Cities programme to work on the topic of youth, sports and inclusion. During the project the three municipalities carried out sports activities with youth in the three cities, including joint activities and instructions for those who were new to the sport.

The three cities also worked to produce a policy brief on the topic, allowing all Intercultural Cities to draw on the experience from the project. The policy brief concludes sports have a great ability to mobilise young people, to break any boundary and organise them towards a common goal. The brief also states that although sport has been seen and recognised as one of the main inclusion drivers, its potential is far from realised in local government.

 Read the policy brief