Social Inclusion Methodology in Critical Areas via Sport

The project aims at defining and implementing a methodology to integrate via sport activities immigrants (first and second generation) living in critical contexts (penitentiary institutions, urban ghettos, refugee camps). These are contexts characterized by situations of particular socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion 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 project will be based on a comprehensive approach that includes: a bibliographic research on the integration processes through sport and on the characteristics and difficulties of integration of foreigners in the chosen contexts; interviews to stakeholders; the analysis of good practices existing at European level and promoted by the project partners. This identified methodology will be: implemented and evaluated by project partners in different contexts; used to increase the skills of sports 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 that, in addition to contain the description of the methodology will provide tools that they will support the sport operator to design the most effective actions to achieve social integration based on the specific environment in which will operate. The Tool Kit will be presented and disseminated within the network of project partners and made available online.