EFDN Highlights: March 2022

EFDN Highlights: March 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, EFDN invites you to look back on this year’s top activities, projects and news stories. Take a look at some highlights from March.

Successful #MoreThanFootball Action Weeks

This year again, many clubs, leagues and FA’s in Europe showed the world how they are using the power of football. Across the Action Days that revolved around topics such as Refugees and Social Inclusion, Accessibility or Mental Health, you shared your tremendous CSR/ESG activities and showed how your staff, volunteers and participants came together for their communities.

Did you miss an Action Day, want to read more about all of our ambassadors that joined until the very end of the campaign, or want to find out more about the clubs, leagues or FA’s that participated? You can find all of the information on the More than Football website here.

EFDN Ukraine appeal

We are very thankful that many of our member and also non-member clubs, leagues and FA’s have supported EFDN’s urgent appeal to European football organisations to help Ukraine. 

Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk, a member of EFDN, set up an emergency ‘Shelter Centre’ in Lviv Stadium in Lviv, Ukraine. EFDN launched an urgent appeal to football clubs, leagues and associations across Europe to support an emergency ‘Shelter Centre’ in Lviv Stadium in Lviv, Ukraine. Organisations that still want to participate can contact EFDN at helpukraine@efdn.org  to register their initiative and can then start immediately organising collections, or fundraising and purchasing priority items.  To manage the flow of all materials in good order, please contact EFDN before you ship your items to the Stadium of Legia Warsaw. 

Successful Welcome Through Football seminar in Bremen

On the 30 and 31 March 2022, the Welcome through Football project partners met in person at the Weserstadion of Werder Bremen. The project managers involved shared their updates on the programme delivery and made plans for the future implementation of the project.

Welcome Through Football is an EFDN initiative. Current projects across Europe receive funding from the Eramus+ programme of the European Union and the UEFA Foundation for Children. The Welcome Through Football 2021 project aims to assist in the integration and inclusion of recently arrived young refugees, asylum seekers and young people with a migrant background. EFDN and partners will develop and test a European methodology that uses football as a tool to reach refugees and migrants from different ages (7-25 years old) to get them physically and social active in European communities. Moreover, the project assists football coaches and youth workers in the development and sharing of effective methods in reaching out to the marginalised target group, in preventing racism and intolerance.

If you want to take a look behind the scenes of the seminar, check out our Instagram Reel!