Sport for Development to Promote Inclusion and Resilience in New Generations

ongoing

SPRING 3.0 aims to promote wellbeing and MHPSS of children, adolescents and caregivers from local and displacement contexts in Southern Türkiye through play and sport, with a focus on the post-recovery after the earthquake in February 2023 and the war in Syria. Designed as a capacity building project, it sets a focus on the development of inclusive and resilient communities as a means to enhance advocacy within EU external border cooperation, using Sport for Development as an effective tool in this process. It has the following objectives: 1) Promote the inclusion of diversity in local communitites through the socio-sport methodology; 2) Promote the development of socio-emotional skills and resilience through play and sport in children, adolescents and caregivers; 3) Train facilitators in the Socio-sport Methodology that Fútbol Más develops at an international level, complementing their regular activities with children and adults; and 4) Measure impact, generate advocacy and disseminate the results of the training and pilot programme for future replicability and scalability. To guarantee its success, it has a strong and innovative consortium of 5 partners from 4 different European countries (3 EU members and 1 third country associated to the Erasmus+ Programme), which includes academia (University College Cork), international NGOs (Fútbol Más and Mercy Without Limits), a public health network (EuroHealthNet) and a semi-public social sport foundation (Deporte Joven Foundation). SPRING: Sport for Development to Promote Resilience and Inclusion in New Generations is a project concept which brings Fútbol Más' innovative socio-sport methodology and puts it at the service of professionals, coaches and organisations, enabling them to implement socio-sport activities with children, youth and adults, and become agents of social transformation in and through sport.