Integration needs innovation! HATTRICK Conference: Football-Learning-Integration

To improve integration processes within a culturally diverse European community there is an urgent need to create innovative methods and to share knowledge! With the project HATTRICK: Football – Learning – Integration we utilised the football pitch as a popular place of integration that also increases opportunities in the labour market. The project HATTRICK shows how, through sport, young people can develop social competences and improve their prospects for the future.

Through the project HATTRICK, young people, particularly those with migration backgrounds or those from other disadvantaged social groups, engage in learning activities in surroundings where they can be full of enthusiasm – on the football pitch. Motivation, strategic thinking and teamwork function side-by-side, not only encouraging the development of key skills for education and work, but also supporting the integration of people from right across the social spectrum.

Loving the game, enjoying playing and experiencing the delight of a good performance are the primary goals of a football player. From there on it is just a small step to connect these football-related goals to improve competences to the higher objectives of helping players to improve their opportunities in the social and professional environment of our modern society.

To best utilise the potential of the football pitch as a place of integration, we have generated training materials for the development and strengthening of social competences of young players and their trainers. The materials such as a football workshop toolkit were then tested in the seven partner countries (Germany, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Austria and the Netherlands) and can now be tested at the closing conference on 8th November in Salzburg. Here we will also discuss the results and collective experiences we gained within the two years of the project.

We look forward to a collaborative and exciting day!

If you want to register for the conference click here.

Further information: www.hattrick-project.eu