Objectives
- Promote sense of belonging and shared identity with local community among adult migrant and refugee women
- Enhance their soft skills: communication, teamwork, time management, problem solving, leadership, motivation and commitment
- Identify good practices to involve migrant and refugee women in sport activities, as well as to promote tolerance, solidarity and cooperation
- Train coaches to foster dialogue and exchange, manage diversity, promote social inclusion and therefore prevent discrimination
Activities
- Desk research, survey implementation and result analysis on migrant and refugee women’s participation in sport activities and to reveal ‘gap skills’ of coaches on social integration
- Pilot of the training course for coaches (4 seminars – 30 hours)
- Organize 10 intercultural sport meetings based on the training course
- Implementation of the European Week of Sport
Resources
- Report on good practices for migrant and refugee women’ participation in sport activities
- Capacity Building Training Course (Guidebook for coaches)
- Online Web-tool
Impact
- Enhancement of active citizenship and improved personal development for migrant and refugee women
- Enable sport coaches to learn integration process, ethnic and culture issues
- Provide recreational opportunities for host society and migrant/refugee communities to increase tolerance and respect, as well as reduce prejudice and xenophobia
- Stronger network for implementation and transfer of innovative practices on informal learning
Partners
- Organization Earth (Greece, coordinator)
- Eleven Campaign (United Kingdom)
- CESIE (Italy)
- FOPSIM (Malta)
- Girl Power Organisation (Denmark)
