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Sportinclusive is the first e-learning platform for sport coaches on how to promote the social inclusion of newly arrived migrants and refugees through sport

From 2013 to 2015, immigration in the EU-28 from non-EU countries increased by 62,6% (Eurostat, migr_imm5prv). The number of first time asylum applicants in the EU-28 increased by 123% between 2014 and 2015 (Eurostat News release 44/2016).
This situation can foment tension, division and misunderstanding between the local population and the newly arrived migrants and refugees. Working on the social inclusion of newly arrived migrants and refugees can, however, play an important role in mitigating those issues.
Sport has long been recognised as a tool to promote social inclusion. The Council conclusions on the role of sport as a source of and a driver for active social inclusion (2010/C 326/04) recognise that: "[...] sport plays a strong societal role with a powerful potential for social inclusion in and through sport, [...] whereby social inclusion through sport involves inclusive participation in society, community development and strengthened social cohesion."

The partners of the Sportinclusive project have long experience in using sport to promote social inclusion. However, when we started in 2015 working with newly arrived migrants and refugees, we noticed that our methods were not as effective with this group as they were with other disadvantaged groups we work with. We felt the need to upgrade the skills of our sport coaches so we decided to develop this, the first open and multilingual e-learning platform for sport coaches on how to promote the social inclusion of newly arrived migrants and refugees through sport.