Over 50 professionals take part in SPEY training in Portugal

The SPEY Project, led by the UFEC and co-funded by the European Commission, combines the practice of sport and the learning of transversal skills with the aim of minimizing the risk factors involved in the process of radicalization in young people.

The SPEY Project (Sport for the Prevention of Extremism in Youth), led by the Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia, held a training session this Tuesday, October 26^th in Gondomar, Portugal,  which has had the participation of different key actors in the project, such as Milena de Murga, creator and coordinator of SPEY Project, Neus Arnal, social educator of the program, and the University of Córdoba, partner of the project.

The training, which involved 51 professionals working in the field of sports or social, aimed to provide them with basic knowledge to understand how sports can prevent radicalization in young people. In addition, it has also been an interesting practice to enhance the exchange of knowledge.

In this sense, the training has begun with the presentation and welcome by the local authorities of Gondomar, followed by an overview of what the SPEY Project is about, and the importance of sport in preventing and combating violent radicalization.

The working day ended with a recap of the achievements to date. Challenges and lessons learned in this year the project has been running, and exchanging experiences with all attendees to see how we can still improve it.

SPEY, a project to prevent the radicalization of young people

The SPEY Project, led by the UFEC and co-funded by the European Commission, combines the practice of sport and the learning of transversal skills with the aim of minimizing the risk factors involved in the process of radicalization in young people.

Understanding that extremism often uses social exclusion as a catalyst for certain hate speech. SPEY Project also seeks to improve the channels of integration and support network of people at risk of social exclusion while always maintaining a cross-cutting gender perspective. throughout the project.

Led by renowned academics, SPEY Project aims to produce tools which can measure the effectiveness of programs aimed at preventing extremism through sport.