Sport Zajedno - Promoting Social Inclusion and Reconciliation through Grassroots Youth Sport
Final Project Conference
Invitation
Where? Hotel Sirius; Pristina, Kosovo
When? 23. January 2026; 09:00 – 18:00
Why? Closing conference of the project “Sport Zajedno – Promoting Social Inclusion and Reconciliation through Grassroots Youth Sport” funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program from 2024-2026. Learn about the project’s goals, achievements and challenges in promoting social inclusion and post-conflict reconciliation among young people in grassroots sport across the Western Balkans.
What? The conference seeks to recapitulate the last two years during which Sport Zajedno sought to address numerous challenges, from the lack of capacity, cooperation, and networking between sports stakeholders, civil society organizations, and vulnerable groups to the persistence of ethnic and gender stereotypes and prejudices among young people and the lack of awareness and skills among football and sports stakeholders to promote fundamental rights, gender equality, and respect for diversity. To achieve this, Sport Zajedno combined training, education, awareness-raising activities, capacity building of local stakeholders in grassroots sport, and targeted sports interventions with young people.
Find out more about how we connected and strengthened stakeholders to harness sport’s potential for bringing divided communities together.
Learn about our educational tools raising awareness on how to implement inclusive grassroots sports activities that empower young people – especially girls – as well as marginalized groups.
Meet our trained multipliers (coaches, educators, sport-for-peace practitioners) who promote gender equality and equal participation of diverse groups in grassroots sports events and within sports organizations.
Who? Apart from the consortium member – Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation – fairplay Initiative (Austria), NGO Atina (Serbia), Football Club Zagreb 041 (Croatia), Igrajmo zajedno inicijativa (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Montenegro), and KFV Prishtina (Kosovo) – we invite stakeholders in grassroots sport (coaches, educators, practitioners, politicians, administrators, athletes, etc.) to join us.
Contact KfV Prishtina (kfv.prishtina [AT] gmail [DOT] com) & VIDC fairplay (brentin [AT] vidc [DOT] org)
