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Michelle Blaya works as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology at the University of Córdoba. Collaborator of the SPEY project, she is in charge of assisting on the planning and creation of the activities based on up-to-date scientific literature, and program outcome assessment. 1) What made you join the project? What would you […]
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Ronalds Rezais, Latvian Sports Federations Council International Project Manager, explains the role of his organization in the SPEY project, what has been achieved so far and the next objectives. 1) What made you join the project? What would you highlight? Previous working experience with UFEC and great cooperation. The project highlights the topic which […]
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Gerard de Gràcia is one of the volunteers of the SPEY (Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth) project, led by the UFEC and co-financed by the European Commission. Among many activities, he participated in the organization of football training sessions that took place throughout 2021 at the EU Sant Andreu installations. Training with young […]
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Meeting in Athens with all partners and the project’s team, to explain SPEY to local stakeholders The meeting consisted of two days where the project’s achievements were explained to local stakeholders in Athens: sports organisations, local action institutions and the Greek government. We work to minimize, through sport, the factors involved in the process of […]
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The youth of the SPEY project have met part of the Llançà “camí de ronda” to Port de la Selva. The trekking, organized by the Federation of Hiking Entities of Catalonia, is part of the educational and sports process of the project. During the trip, participants walked eight kilometers in less than three hours and swam […]
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The social area of the Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu has given almost twenty pairs of sneakers to the young people who participate in the SPEY program. These young people play football on Tuesdays and Fridays in this club. They have received new boots nthusiastically. Most of them have been part of the european project since […]
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The boys who participate in the SPEY (Sport for Prevention of Extremism Youth) programme have restarted their activity on football stadiums after months on digital contact: the main format of the pandemic around the world. The UFEC (Unió de Federacions esportives de Catalunya) has created four groups of boys at social exclusion risk to practise […]
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On Tuesday 17 February, the Union of Catalan Sports Federations (UFEC) headquarters hosted the kick-off meeting for the Sport for Prevention of Extremism in Youth (SPEY) project, the European venture led by the UFEC to prevent radicalisation in young people through sport. The project is headed by the UFEC and funded by the European Commission. […]