Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth - Project Presentation

The European project SPEY – Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth will be presented at Olympiapark in Berlin on Thursday, 12 May 2022 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CET.

The project and its results will be presented at Turnhaus, Olympiapark, Friedrich-Friesen-Allee, 14053 Berlin. Please note that the presentation will be in English. If you would like to attend, please register with an email to icsspeicsspe.org

The SPEY Project, led by the Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya (Sports Federation Union of Catalonia, UFEC), combines the practice of sport and the learning of transversal skills with the aim of minimising the risk factors involved in the process of radicalisation in young people.

The project aims to produce tools that can measure the effectiveness of programmes aimed at preventing extremism through sport. It is co-funded by the European Commission ERASMUS+ programme.

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.

Programme, 12 May 2022:

09h45 – 10h00 Registration, Coffee

10h00 – 10h15 Opening

Dr Uri Schaefer, ICSSPE President

Mr Gerard Esteva I Viladecans, UFEC President

10h15 – 10h45 Presentation of the project

Ms Milena de Murga, psychologist and criminologist, Head of International and Social

Action departments of the Union of Catalan Sports Federations, Co-creator and coordinator of SPEY project

Questions and answers, discussion

10h45 – 11h30 Introduction of the topics violence and radicalisation

Presentation of the programme results

Prof. Roberto Muelas Lobato, Marbella International University Centre,

Questions and answers, discussion

11h30 – 11h50 Presentation of the Erasmus+ Programme

Mr Marcello Corrado, EACEA Project Manager

11h50 – 12h00 Summary, Closing

Mr Gerard Esteva I Viladecans and Dr Uri Schaefer

See the SPEY Website for more.