Fair play initiative

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Fairplay Initiative is an Austrian organization to promote diversity and anti-discrimination in sport. Fairplay was founded in 1997 in the European Year Against Racism . In 1999, Fairplay launched the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network in Vienna .

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Content and direction

Fairplay is active in Austrian sport in the development and operational implementation of innovative education, information and public relations work in the field of anti-discrimination , sport for development & human rights and social inclusion. The central concern of the Fair Play Initiative is the proactive fight against discrimination ( racism , homophobia , sexism) in sport and the promotion of equal participation of migrants and other minorities at all levels of sport. Fairplay - Initiative for Diversity and Anti-Discrimination is one of four departments at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC). The non-profit association "fairplay - association for diversity in sport" has existed since 2011.

history

Foundation and development

The FairPlay. Many colours. A game was launched by the VIDC in the European Year Against Racism 1997 at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC) in response to the widespread racism in football stadiums. The intercultural football project was approved by the European Commission , the Sports Secretariat of State in the Federal Chancellery , the Austrian Development Cooperation , the City of Vienna , the Ministry of Education , the Ministry of Youth, the ÖFB , the union of footballers and the student union supports.

Kurt Wachter developed the idea and concept for the fairplay campaign following the Sura za Africa cultural festival. Wachter set up the project together with Michael Fanizadeh.

Milestones (selection)

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1997: (September 22nd) media presentation of fairplay in the Vienna Federal Chancellery together with the players Samuel Koejoe , Marcel Oerlemans , Peter Schöttel , Thomas Janeschitz and Anton Pfeffer as well as State Secretary for Sport Peter Wittmann , ÖFB President Beppo Mauhart and VIDC Director Erich Andrlik .

1999: (February) Foundation of FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) in Vienna.

2000: First anti-racist stadium campaigns in the Austrian Bundesliga at FK Austria Wien and SK Rapid Wien .

2001: First Europe-wide weeks of action against racism and discrimination in football and FARE receives the UEFA Charity Check in Monaco (VIDC-fairplay as the legal entity of FARE enters into a three-year social responsibility partnership with UEFA ).

2004: Anti-racism activities and fan embassies at UEFA EURO 2004 in Portugal.

2006: Coordination of the anti-racism program at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

2006: ÖFB promotes fairplay campaign to prevent discrimination against racism.

2007: With the support of the NIKE project Stand up, Speak up, start of the football campaign against nationalism in the Western Balkans .

2008: fairplay organized three social programs at the UEFA EURO 2008: Unite against Racism, Fan Embassies and Euroschools.

2009: Commissioned by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) to conduct a scientific study on Racism and ethnic discrimination in sport in the EU and preventive initiatives

2010: The sponsorship of the FARE network passes from VIDC-fairplay to the new organization FARE Network.

2012 : With the support of the European Commission, start of the network port Inclusion Network (SPIN) (inclusion of migrants through sport).

2012: Establishment of pro supporters, the coordination office for socially preventive fan work.

2014: With the support of the Ministry of Sport, establishment of the fairplay service point for diversity and inclusion in Austrian sport.

2014: Nosso Jogo project Our game for human rights on the occasion of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

2015 : Initiation of the AG Sport and Human Rights in the Ministry of Sport.

2015 : Start of the online platform sports offers for refugees.

2016: Start of the Football Zajedno program in the Western Balkans .

2016: ERASMUS + Project Queering Football - Tackling Homophobia and Promoting Anti-Discrimination around Major Sport Events

2017: ERASMUS + Projekt Sport Welcomes Refugees - Social inclusion of newly arrived migrants in and through sport

2019 : ERASMUS + Project Sport Inclusion of Migrant and Minority Women (SPIN Women)

2020: EU project Sport Inclusion of Refugees across Europe (SPIN Refugees)

responsible

The director of the VIDC has been Sybille Straubinger since August 2018 , she succeeded Walter Posch . Kurt Wachter is the head of the fair play initiative.

successes

Fair play succeeded in building sustainable partnerships with all relevant players in football at national and European level. In 1999, the European network FARE - Football Against Racism in Europe - was founded in Vienna and is now a main partner of UEFA in the area of ​​social responsibility. fairplay coordinated the FARE network until 2010 and has been represented on the FARE board since then. The highlight of the international work is the Europe-wide campaign weeks against racism and discrimination in football, which takes place every October and in which the Austrian football community also actively participates in addition to the UEFA Champions League.

Fairplay conducts educational work in the extracurricular youth sector. This includes the promotion of socially preventive fan work in Austria, a method for the long-term prevention of violence. Another focus is on girls' and women's football. As part of the Football Zajedno project , which is supported by the football associations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia as well as UEFA, an annual international girls' football festival has been held in Vienna since 2017.

In addition to running a service center for anti-discrimination & diversity for Austrian sport, fairplay has been involved in club sport with the support of the Ministry of Sport for Human Rights since 2016.

Since 2015 fairplay has increasingly acted as a platform and interface for sports offers with refugees. Fairplay coordinates the network Sport Inclusion Network (SPIN), together with partner organizations in Hungary, Italy, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Finland and Portugal, ERASMUS + sport projects for the inclusion of refugees and migrants in organized sport are carried out.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - European Year against Racism is launched in The Hague. Accessed August 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lenka-Lidia Pedemonte: Actors and concepts of Austrian development cooperation: VIDC-FAIRPLAY. In: Seminar paper - University of Vienna. 2017, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ VIDC: Guide to Sport and Human Rights. In: www.sportundmenschenrechte.at. VIDC, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Ministry of Sport: Fair Play. August 21, 2019, accessed August 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kurt Wachter | sportanddev.org. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ Michael Fanizadeh | Capacity4dev. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (English).
  7. ^ Wachter, Kurt / Fanizadeh, Michael / Essmeister, Rafaela: Networking against Racism in European Football (NAREF) - Vienna Seminar Report . In: VIDC (Ed.): Brochure . Vienna 1999, p. 32 .
  8. ↑ FIFA: Football against Racism at the 2006 FIFA World Cup ™: joint action by FIFA, the LOC and FARE. FIFA, June 9, 2006, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Nike launches anti-racism campaign. February 2, 2005, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ oe24.at: Against Discrimination in Sport. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ European Commission: Results for "Sport as a tool for integration and social inclusion of refugees" are now available. European Commission, accessed November 13, 2019 (2019-110-24).
  12. ↑ UEFA.com: Social responsibility | Inside UEFA. Accessed August 21, 2019 .
  13. ↑ BSO: Sport & Human Rights Working Group. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  14. ^ Sports Inclusion Network. Accessed August 21, 2019 .
  15. ^ Anonymous: Sport. February 18, 2015, accessed August 21, 2019 .