Sport Together–Strengthening Cross-Community Social Inclusion in Post-Conflict Regions

 ERASMUS + SPORT 2020 – Collaborative Partnerships in the sport field -

Διάρκεια: 1 Ιανουαρίου 2021 – 30 Ιουνίου 2023 (30 μήνες)

The Network

• 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)

The project

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”.