SPEY PROJECT

Since this Monday, the European project led by the Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia that seeks to prevent the radicalization of young people through sport, has launched its website.

The project, co-financed by the European Commission, will last 30 months, and has the support of 7 countries and 9 'partners', including the Swedish Sports Confederation, the Union of Federations of Latvia, the International Council of Sport and Physical Education of Germany, the City Council of Gondomar of Portugal, the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Greece, the French 'think tank' Sport and Citizenship, and the University of Córdoba.

SPEY is a project that aims to create a sports program where its activities will be validated by experts in the phenomenon of radicalization. SPEY is the only European project of this nature where the scientific method is applied to validate all its activities, whether sports or work in transversal skills and values. The project will be tested with different youth groups and different sports. It will consist of a group of 100 young people as an experimental group and another group of 100 young people as a control group, in order to validate the activities. Selection, identification and measurement tools will be created to detect possible risk indicators.

The ultimate goal is to create a tested and validated sports program, which can be used by any organization in any European country, in order to avoid radicalization in young people at risk and thus prevent violent extremism.