FIRE : Football Including Refugees
FIRE aims to promote inclusion, participation, socialisation and access to sport for asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees. More specifically, FIRE intends to enhance the fostering of intercultural openness in football clubs by empowering and supporting them to work with the specified target group. Sport enables us to bring people together regardless of their nationality, citizenship, cultural background, legal status or any other variables of the likes. Ultimately, the FIRE project seeks to deliver a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that will contain suggestions, best practices, success factors and risk mitigation that will help local football clubs to implement programmes welcoming and integrating refugees. Several conferences will be held across Europe over the next 24 months, to showcase the project’s mapping of the best practical and political practices; and a handful of selected local interventions will take place during FARE Network’s 2019 Football People action weeks. Both the interventions and conferences will enable the project consortium to present and discuss their work with experienced and potential stakeholders, making for the perfect occasions to adjust the MOOC’s content to the expressed need.
Partners
The project is led by Sport and Citizenship (France) and is further composed of 7 additional partners that are:
- ESSCA School of Management (France)
- FARE Network (United Kingdom)
- Fundacion La Liga (Spain)
- Fundacja Dla Wolnosci (Poland)
- The Romanian Football Federation (Romania)
- The Royal Belgian Football Association (Belgium)
- The Scottish Football Association (United Kingdom)
Infos and ressources
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Website : https://footballwithrefugees.eu
- Hashtag : #Foot4all
Latest articles

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Focus sur le cours en ligne lancé par FIRE
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Interview of Tegla Loroupe
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Exclusive interview of Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner responsible for Home Affairs
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Fodé, a young refugee from Guinea, testifies.
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Sport and refugees: Conclusions of the FIRE project Sport and Citizenship's scientific journal 51 For more than two years,
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FIRE PROJECT: the MOOC is available !
The MOOC is specifically elaborated for grassroots football clubs and local organizations. ESSCA School of Management has played a key
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More Than a Game – 4th National Conference FIRE Project Football Including Refugees is almost reaching the end of
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The European Commission organised and hosted its first policy breakfast on the use of sport for social inclusion and integration.
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Bucharest successfully hosted the second national FIRE conference Following the FIRE project’s first edition of national conferences held in Glasgow
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