I SPORT – Inclusive Sport Project Opposed to Radicalization Tenets
Project details
Project number: EAC-2017-0472
Timespan of project: 01/01/2018 – 31/12/2018
Program details
Financing program: EAC – Monitoring and coaching, through sports, of youngsters at risk of radicalisation
Link Of Program:
https://ec.europa.eu/sport/calls/eac-sport-2017-monitoring-coaching-youngsters-radicalisation_en
Contact details
CEIPES: International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development
Contact Person: Sara Cicero
Email: saramaria.cicero@ceipes.org
Objectives
- To remove the physical and cultural barriers impeding young people from prison and /or reception centres for migrants to participate in sport activities with local peers;
- To awaken and divulge the values of sports among young people living in prisons and to lower the lure of radicalization by proposing them an alternative to violence and solitude;
- To equip young people with lower opportunities with sound knowledge and skills to make the best use of sport over a 9-month preparation training course;
- To emphasise important European values through sport participation such as gender balance, fair-play collaboration, and social acceptance;
- To bring together young people of different backgrounds (detainees; local young people; migrant and refugees people) and religions (Muslims; Christians; Hindus) and to cooperate together in the realization of the final tournament.
Activites
- A sport training course based on three sports: Athletic, Volleyball and Futsal;
- A training course based on Non Formal Education;
- A final sport tournament;
- Creation of the Sport Training Manual.
Results
- “Baseline Training Results Guidelines”, a guideline that will identify the minimum expected results as well as the overall impact;
- Improving of understanding of the positive impact that sport has in promoting positive social and individual behaviours, with benefits at local, regional, national and European level;
- To reach an increased awareness on the challenge of radicalization, not only for the society as such but also for the individuals falling into its lure.
Partners
- CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development, Italy
- University Sports Center of Palermo – CUS Palermo
- Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences of the University of Palermo
- “Istituto Malaspina” Juvenile detention centre of Palermo
- Associazione Studenti Stranieri (Foreign Students Association)
- Comunità Ivoriana in Sicilia
- Municipality of Palermo
- SPRAR centers in Palermo city (Refugee Reception Centers)