Playing football in a team offers various opportunities of social learning and developing transversal competences – independent from cultural background. Sport can provide a useful function in reinforcing social inclusion. Many young migrant people show enthusiasm in (team) sports, with young men especially keen on football.
The football pitch, however, is one social location where integration seems to be successful in many cases. The activities of the Hattrick project build on to this setting. The basic idea of Hattrick is to use the potential which young migrant footballers display on the football pitch for (re-)entering education and vocational training and thus improving their social integration.
This is an international project involving partners from Germany, the Netherlands, France, UK, Italy and aims to involve young people with a background in immigration and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds into a path of non-formal education where football becomes the mean of learning-
For more info you can access the following website: http://www.hattrick-project.eu/
