SPORT TRUCE

Specific action dedicated to newly-arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: Nikolaos Constantin Theodorou

Status of the project owner:  National NGO

Area of work of the project owner: Sport / Youth / Social inclusion / Professional integration
Website of the project owner

PROJECT

  Greece

Geographic scope of project: International

Project objective: Accede 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

Types of sport or physical activity carried out: Not specified

Partnership / supports: Grants (National, European, International, Charities) / Other partners (Greek State / Greek prefecture / Greek municipality / TRUCE Teamwork with Refugees Unite Communities in Europe)

Project duration: 3 years (start: 1.1.2019 / end: 31.12.2021)

Project status: Planned

Supervising staff: Professionals / Volunteers

Summary of the project: 1. Enhance the combat against racism, xenophobia, radicalisation, marginalisation , social depreciation, xenophobia, social exclusion in sport, related with refugees in isolated refugee camps and hot spots , through the utilization of an evidence-based, bottom-up and innovative education approach.  2. Enrich the evidence-base for the scientific study of racism, xenophobia, radicalisation, marginalisation,social depreciation, social exclusion in sport, related with refugees in isolated refugee camps and hot spots, by utilising a multidisciplinary approach (social sciences, sport sciences, and information and communication technologies).  3. Empower policy-makers and relevant stakeholders (e.g., Sport ministries , Local governments, prefectures, local sport councils, management of hot spots and refugee camps, NGOs, sport bodies) to more effectively tackle racism, xenophobia, radicalisation, marginalisation ,social depreciation, social exclusion in sport, related with refugees in isolated refugee camps and hot spots, among risk-vulnerable groups across levels and types of sport.

Methodology: identification and recording of the training needs of targeted groups / collections of data, qualitative and quantitative survey research / management, planning, organising, leading and controlling / pilot study: implementation of the new Sport TRUCE final "products" and "services" / e-learning, e-platform, vocational education training

TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: Greece, Romania, Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany - Target groups: managers of local municipalities / prefectures / local regional governments / directors of State organised hot-sports and refugee camps / public servants of sport ministries and departments of internal affairs, social policy, immigration units / Olympians associations, directors of Olympic Committees, Commissioners of Regional sport federations or confederations / Supervisors of Municipal unions of sports / Local administration officers of public Physical Education, Municipal unions of PE Teachers / Unions of sport trainers / Clubs of Veteran Athletes members / Executives and Managers of sport Leagues and Championship organisers and commissars  / Local prefectures Sport related Bodies and Communities staff / wider public 

Type of migration: Refugee / Asylum seeker

Target beneficiary: Families / Children / Teenager-Young people

Target age group: 5-10 / 11-20 / 21-30