European Youth Engaging in Solidarity and Sport

Background Racism and discrimination are today some of the most important issues in the European and world panorama. Despite often distant national policies, non-governmental organizations, sports federations and universities in five European countries are committed together in the project based on the will to fight racism and encourage social integration through practice of sports disciplines and thoughout replication of methodologies of multicultural festival Mondiali Antirazzisti. Objectives EYESS intends to encourage social inclusion, tackle discrimination and intolerance through sport by transferring the good practice of Mondiali Antirazzisti in a new partnership between civil society and the academic environment of Greece, Hungary, Austria, Italy and Denmark, through training programmes, pilot events and mutual learning sessions. EYESS also wants to raise awareness among local institutional stakeholders and local civil society about sport as a tool for social inclusion. Implementation First action of the project, after the kick off meeting to discuss about future project strategies was the organisation of a theoretical-practical training addressed to volunteers linked to partners, to transfer them the needed skills to organise sport events against discrimination, as Uisp Mondiali Antirazzisti. Then people involved organised in their countries pilot events and conference on the teams, involving local stakeholders. Achievements Despite difficulties due to pandemic crisis, the project was able to: - train volunteers and staff on the organisation of antiracist sport event- organise 3 pilots events in presence- organise 2 pilot events online- organise 3 multiplier sport events in presence - organise 2 multiplier sport events online - organise 1 final conference onlie- produce a full multilingual toolkit (manual, video, slide, info graphic, booklet)- produce a complete evaluation report on project impact