BRACE - Breaking baRriers to migrAnt soCial intEgration through football

BRACE (Breaking barriers to migrant social integration through football) aims to joint different experiences around Europe, from different organisations who are working to reach the social integration of vulnerable groups through football, to share good practices and to work together to improve their projects and to make them replicable. This project also aims to make accessible the sport to everyone, especially vulnerable groups (migrants, refugees, unaccompanied minors) contributing to their social inclusion and involving different actors of the society (sport clubs, families, institutions and universities). The target will be: - People involved in the sport clubs (trainers, football players- including migrants, refugees and unaccompanied minors-) and, in the case, their families - Public institutions - Experts from the university The activities proposed are the follows: - Football competitions between the teams that are partners in the project. The matches will contribute to the social inclusion, to share common values and to create networking between the sport clubs. - At the same time, in each meeting it will be a session to present good practices of each partner which will be collected in a document to be distributed and uploaded on the website. - Additionally, seminars and conferences about the social inclusion through football will be organised for the project coordinator and partner organisations with the collaboration of some experts. In these activities the experts will analyse the situation of these vulnerable groups in Europe and they will explain some pedagogical methods to be apply by the sports clubs and institutions to fight racism and xenophobia in their cities and to stimulate the social inclusion of migrants, refugees and unaccompanied minors. The idea of the project is working closely with all the actors of society to reach a real social inclusion of these vulnerable groups as well as being an example for other organisations.