ONSIDE Amateur football free of racism and promoting integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

ONSIDE Amateur football free of racism and promoting integration

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The context where the ONSIDE project is located is the most acute situation of racism and situations of marginalization in society. Society evolves in most aspects, also in that of interculturality, tolerance and racism, but at the moment that situations of criticism and wide dimension arise, this evolution is one step back, or more than one. This reflection is clearly seen in facts, for example, such as Islamist terrorist attacks, immigration or the “crisis” of refugees, where the response of a large part of society is to reject not only the causes and / or those directly responsible or indirect, but also of the social group to which they can relate, such as those of the same religion, race or social situation. It is obvious that sport is part of society, and in this there are also these situations. In particular, football is a space where most of these situations are reproduced and multiplied given its impact, its wide practice and its victims.

In this sense, the project presents clear and specific results working from a youth perspective and using non-formal education methodology. These results are:

1. Provide tools and resources to the base of football clubs. Understanding this result as consulting football clubs based on situations and their way of working -> create / produce concrete tools that can be used to improve integration and combat racism -> And that these tools fit into their ordinary functioning .
2. Provide tools and personal resources of young controllers of grassroots football. This result has the social capacity approach of different situations thus offering resources to know how to act.
3. Racism and integration awareness campaign. Where it will focus not so much on a general and broad audience, but on the grassroots audience. Since the development of this campaign (name, implementation, breadth, ..) will be one of the elements to be produced by the partners, no more details can be offered that will be a targeted and effective campaign in the fields and football clubs.
However, a project with these characteristics also requires actions such as promoting knowledge and collaboration among promoter organizations as well as satellite organizations. It is an opportunity not only to reflect and produce new tools, but to share experiences and good practices among entities. We believe that this can give a value beyond the objectives of the project since, inherently, knowledge will be shared in other areas such as European projects, relations with institutions, …

In reference to the beneficiaries we can establish that the following profiles are foreseen:
– The young people of the categories of Cadet (14 and 15 years) and Youth (16, 17 and 18 years) or their correspondences in different countries. These will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the project’s actions by receiving the workshops, activities or training developed therein. It is planned to access and implement these activities and materials in at least 100 teams of these categories (20 per entity). Therefore the beneficiaries would be about 1,500 young people.
– The young coaches of teams of lower categories (pre-baby, baby and child) provided they are between 18 and 30 years of age. We know that it is quite usual that coaches of lower categories than cadets are usually young people in these ages who do not usually receive training beyond what they have received in their player stages and, in no case, reference training to cultural integration in the team or to fight against racism. We believe that these direct beneficiaries can be more than 150 young people.
– The young people who perform the functions of arbitrators, being a group that receives technical training and conflict management, but is left homeless in training in the scope of this project. We believe that these direct beneficiaries can be more than 40 young people.

The project consists of a duration of 18 months, 4 transnational meetings and a training activity. It has the different phases described and the active participation of 5 entities: Associació PROSEC as Coordinator, GEA of Italy, C.S.E.N. Comitato Provinciale di Perugia of Italy, United Societies of Balkans of Greece and OLTALOM of Hungary. All of them form a balanced consortium in experience and capabilities.

We believe that among the partners, activities have been established in accordance with the objectives, properly dividing the tasks and functions into the three main approaches of the project (A3, A4 and A5) and establishing activities that guarantee the proper functioning of the project (A1), its diffusion (A2) and its quality (A6 and A7).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56263 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associació PROSEC (Promotora Social) & Country: ES

Project Partners

• GEA – SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• UNITED SOCIETIES OF BALKANS
• OLTALOM SPORTEGYESULET
• C.S.E.N. Comitato Provinciale di Perugia