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Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth
30/05/2022 17:44
The Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth SPEY Project Final conference will take place on 14 June 2022 in Brussels.
After almost three years of collaboration and ambitious work, The SPEY Final conference will be the last occasion to share the project findings, barriers faced and lessons learnt. The SPEY project team aims at gathering policy makers, youth and sport experts and a more generic audience.
The conference will give participants interesting insights on how much sport can do to strengthen formal and non-formal education and to prevent extremism in Youth.
When:
14th of June 2022
9:30 - 14:00 CET
Where:
International Office of Catalonia
227 Rue de la Loi
1040 Etterbeek
BRUSSELS
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PROVISIONAL AGENDA
09.30 - Registration of the participants
09.50 - Inauguration of the Conference by the host organization Sport and Citizenship
10.00 - Welcoming words
Gerard Esteva i Viladecans
President of Union of Sportive Federations of Catalonia, Spain (project coordinator entity)
10.15 - Priorities of EU Sport policy and EU sport fundings
Marisa Fernández Esteban
Deputy head of the Sport unit, European Commission (Belgium)
10.30 - 10.45 Presentation of the SPEY project
Milena de Murga
Psychologist and criminologist, head of International and Social Action departments of the Union of Catalan Sports Federations (Spain).
Co-creator and coordinator of the SPEY project.
10.45 - SPEY Sport Programme. Short documentary about the project
Alla Krinitsyna
Social psychologist, project manager, Union of Sportive Federations of Catalonia (Spain)
11.00 - Coffee break
11.20 - SPEY project Outcomes
Roberto M. Lobato
PhD in Social Psychology, Professor at the Marbella International University Center (Spain)
11.35 - Preventing and countering radicalization through sport
Daniel Mateu, Specialist in Analysis of Jihadist terrorism, Insurgencies, and Radical Movements, researcher of the University of Cordoba (Spain). Co-creator of the SPEY project.
11.50 - Terrorism and sport
Carlos Igualada
Director of the International Observatory of Studies on Terrorism (OIET).
12.10 - Questions from the audience and seminar conclusion
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch for the participants
About SPEY
SPEY is a European program lead by the Union of Sport Federations of Catalonia (UFEC), co-funded by the European Commission with the aim to combine sports practice and transversal skills to minimise the factors which intervene in the process of youth radicalisation. It seeks to improve integration channels for youngsters at-risk of exclusion and keeps gender-based perspective crosswise throughout the project.
Project partners are: Swedish Riksidrottsförbundet (Confederation of Sports of Sweden), Latvijas Sporta Federáciju Padome (Union of Federations of Latvia), the International Council of Sport and Physical Education (ICSSPE, Germany), the City Council of Gondomar (Portugal), the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Hellenic Republic of Greece, the French ‘think tank’ Sport and Citizenship, and the University of Córdoba, Spain.
After almost 3 years of collaboration and ambitious work, The SPEY Final conference will be the last occasion to share about the project findings, barriers faced and lessons learnt. We aim at gathering policy makers, youth and sport experts and a more generic audience.
The conference will give participants interesting insights on how much sport can do to strengthen formal and non-formal education and to prevent extremism in Youth.