The Football Including REfugee project (FIRE) is a 2-year initiative led by Sport and Citizenship Think Tank and funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Migration has become a highly sensitive topic across the European continent, regardless of the cause. While migration has been brought under the spotlight in recent years, the social inclusion of refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers has unfortunately not attracted as much public interest. Founded on the belief that sport is a universal language that can harness to enable social progress, FIRE strives to foster local interlocutor openness through football. The project intends to provide grassroots football organizations with the tools and insights that will enable them to implement their very own social inclusion initiatives and programmes aimed at the displaced newcomers.
The event is open to everyone interested in the topic and it will be the opportunity to bring all national stakeholders together, whether they are volunteers, coaches, local grassroots football associations, asylum-seekers, migrants or refugees, associations or governmental bodies, around the same table to share their projects, good practices, ideas and initiatives.
You can find all the information about our conference’s agenda here: FIRE WEBINAR. LaLiga FOUNDATION