La metodologia sarà definita a partire da:

• una ricerca bibliografica sui processi di integrazione attraverso lo sport e sulle caratteristiche e difficoltà dell’integrazione degli stranieri nei contesti scelti;
• interviste alle parti interessate;
• l’analisi delle buone pratiche esistenti a livello europeo e promosse dai partner del progetto;
• un’indagine sulle esperienze e sui bisogni formativi degli operatori sportivi;
• lo studio di forme di sostenibilità applicabili a tali interventi

Tale metodologia sarà:

• testata e valutata dai partner del progetto nei diversi contesti individuati. In Italia la sperimentazione sarà realizzata all’interno del carcere di Bologna, caratterizzato da un’elevata percentuale di stranieri;
• utilizzata per accrescere le competenze degli operatori sportivi che lavorano nelle aree critiche. Saranno per questo definiti un toolkit per lo sviluppo di interventi di integrazione degli immigrati attraverso lo sport e un modulo formativo rivolto agli operatori sportivi che saranno presentati nel corso di workshop nazionali organizzati in ognuno dei Paesi dei partner del progetto

Durata:  gennaio 2020- dicembre 2022

Partner   Champions ohne Grenzen – Germania;  Consell Esportiu del Pla de l’Estany- Spagna;  Girl Power Organisation – Danimarca;  IREF – Italia; Organisation Earth – Grecia ; Sportna Unja Slovenije – Slovenia; Università degli studi di Cassino – Italia

Adesioni al progetto: Dipartimento dell’Amministrazione penitenziaria – Ministero Giustizia; casa circondariale di Bologna, Banca Popolare Etica, Federazione Italiana Educatori Fisici

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

Social Inclusion Methodology in Critical Areas via Sport  is the project promoted by US Acli in the field of the Erasmus Plus Sport Project. The project aims at defining and testing a methodology to integrate via sport activities the immigrants (first and second generation) living in critical contexts (penitentiary institutions, urban ghettos, refugee camps). These are contexts characterized by situations of particular disintegration and social discomfort that make the processes of growth, personal affirmation, social redemption very difficult and, therefore, also any form of relationship, interaction, civil coexistence and social cohesion is challenging, facilitating the ghettoization or social and physical isolation and making the most fragile subjects more vulnerable to extremist influences.

The goal of the project is the one of defining and experimenting a method able to support the sport operators in the making and the realization of effective and substainable integration intervention through the time. For this reason , the partnership is composed by a research institution (IREF), a University (University of Cassino) and 5 other no profit organizations working on social inclusion of immigrants through sport.

The project will be based on a comprehensive approach that includes:

• a bibliographic research on the integration processes focused on sport and on the characteristics and difficulties of integration of foreigners in the chosen contexts;
• interviews to some stakeholders;
• the analysis of good practices existing at European level and promoted by the project partners.
• a survey of the experiences and training needs of coaches;
• a sustainability  forms research to apply in the actions;

This identified methodology will be:

• tested and evaluated by project partners in different contexts; in Italy the experimentation will be realized in a prison in Bologna, characterized by a high percentage of foreigners
• used to increase the skills of sport operators, starting from the direct and indirect network of partners, but also as a tool to increase the knowledge and skills for social workers working in the critical areas chosen.

The main output of the project will be a Tool Kit for the development of interventions for the integration of immigrants through sport which, in addition to the containing of the description of the methodology will provide tools that will support the sport operator to design the most effective actions to achieve social integration based on the specific environment in which they will operate. The Tool Kit will be presented and disseminated within the network of project partners and made available online.

Duration time: January 2020 – December 2022

Partners: Champions ohne Grenzen – Germany; Consell Esportiu del Pla de l’Estany- Spain; Girl Power

Organisation – Danemark; IREF – Italy; Organisation Earth  – Greece ; Sportna Unja Slovenije – Slovenia;;

Università degli studi di Cassino – Italy

Membership to the project: Penitentiary Amministration Department – Justice Ministery; Casa Circondariale in Bologna, Banca Popolare Etica, Italian Federation of Physic Educators