Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnerships
Access to Sport - Children with disabilities - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Personal development - Strengthening partnershipsContext
- Bosna and Herzegovina: Cultural and religious divisions continue between Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholic and Bosnian Muslim communities since the Bosnian War, affecting education (with different groups separated under the ‘two schools under one roof’ policy), politics and everyday life.
- Hungary: The Roma population, Hungary’s largest ethnic minority, faces entrenched discrimination in education, housing and employment. Increasing anti-migrant rhetoric has led to heightened nationalism. In addition, disadvantaged young people in rural areas often lack access to structured extracurricular activities, and the LGBTQI+ community is also ostracised.
- Poland: Migrants and refugees, particularly from Ukraine, Belarus and the Middle East, face social exclusion, lack of support with integration and rising xenophobia.
- Romania: Roma communities face poverty, limited civic participation and systemic exclusion, including being separated from others in schools. In addition, disparities between urban and rural areas leave many young people without access to quality extracurricular opportunities, and emerging migrant populations and increasing multiculturalism require new integration strategies. Finally, girls’ participation in football activities is very limited.
Project goals
SPORT EURHOPE aims to build a more inclusive society through sport, by reducing discrimination, prejudice and stereotypes, and building a specific methodology that could be used again or be replicated by third parties.
Four main areas of action have been identified:
- Inclusion of girls, to promote gender equality
- Inclusion of minorities, to bridge the social gap between migrants, Roma communities and others
- Football for all abilities, to reduce barriers to enable everyone to participate
- Inclusion of people from all religions, ethnicities and cultures, taking into account cultural traditions and freedom of belief
The project is expected to produce results at individual, local and international levels.
Project content
- Analysis, to confirm the needs assessment and tailor the intervention and targets, based on a one-year pilot in each country
- Implementation, of an on-pitch activity every week for two years, in collaboration with local partners and schools
- Development and dissemination, of an inclusive-football methodology to foster sustainable societies, open-minded generations and respectful people and to provide project beneficiaries with skills in problem-solving and creative thinking, plus emotional tools to recognise and manage their feelings, accept people who are different from them, face wins and defeats, and increase their mediation and listening skills.
Partners
