Sport2Treat - Artistic sports vs War trauma

The project Sport2Treat, aims to conceptualize the big range of stimuli that artistic sports activities can offer to forcibly displaced people, due to the war in Ukraine, supporting their skills-development and psychosocial empowerment. The proposed approach aims also to support the host country, in this case the sport sector in Greece, to welcome refugees and engage Ukrainian children (min 30) in artistic sport activities. Moreover, a professional training course will be developed for capacity building in Ukrainian sport staff (min 20) who have relocated in Greece, and also, a digital employment tool will be created to assist them in finding suitable employment opportunities in the artistic sport sector. The immediate outcome of the project’s pilot scheme (Artistic Sports 4ALL Camp) is offering refugee children a sport context where they feel secure and can access sport, together with addressing psychological trauma. Sport inclusion of refugees will be achieved by implementing 3 artistic sports programs, during a summer camp, that will correspond to children’s learning, social and emotional needs. Project activities will support the target group to feel safe and to be able to copy with separation, loss, grief, and trauma, and also, restore self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills, while communicate with others, including non-refugees and feeling a sense of belonging. We will produce twelve deliverables, such as, awareness raising campaign, social media accounts, online educational courses, training programs, web-based applications and more.