SENTRY Sport: surfacing, preventing and mediating discriminations through sport
▶Summary
Background SENTRY Sport aimed to develop a common methodology for monitoring and preventing discrimination in sport. Sports places are frequented by many potential victims of various discrimination, but this phenomenon is "under-reported. Sport operators and other professionals of the sports sector can play an important role (as "Sentries" of discriminations) in the surfacing of the phenomenon, giving support to victims, orienting them and shaping conflict mediation actions. Objectives •Provide useful IT tools for networking, sharing of materials and good practices•Establish and run a broad thematic network of actors interested or potentially interested in applying or promoting the methodology•Build capacities and develop tools to support victims of discrimination in the sport venues•Test, adapt and validate a transferable methodology via Pilot Events in different European towns•Disseminate project results and advocate the issue to policy makers Implementation The project involved all partners in the Intellectual Outputs (Online Platform, Toolkit, Capacity Building Program, Pilot events, Lesson Learned, Policy Recommendations), identifying for each output a leader partner for implementation. Partners experimented tested the methodology and tools. The management has been assured by a Management Board led by UISP with a representative per partner, defining main strategies for implementation, through online (especially during covid) and offline meetings. Achievements Producing of: online Platform, Manifesto of the project, Toolkit, Collection of Good practices, Capacity Building Programme (1 international training online + 5 local training + e-learning course), Policy Recommendations, Lesson LearnedOrganization of 6 multiplier sport eventsOrganisation of 5 pilot activitiesOrganisation of 6 transnational meetings + final event in presence and 29 online meetingsDissemination of the materials and results via social media to public body and stakeholders