Project INAMOS comes to an end 

To proceed with a little excursus, INAMOS started in 2020 and on February 27th-28th the first Full Partner Meeting was held at IST-University of Management in Düsseldorf, Germany. Sadly, almost immediately partners needed to reorganise internally the whole management, due to the impossibility to travel and meet, related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

With a true effort, the organisations started the work online, managing to set the basis and the framework for a fruitful collaboration in the upcoming years. The first meeting back in person was in November 2022, in Bern; followed by the Oslo meeting in February 2023, specifically addressed to the academic partners involved in the project, to complete and decide the last steps of the final research.

During all these years, the objective has been to enhance the capacity of sport clubs to integrate a large number of Newly Arrived Migrants, which nowadays remains a key challenge for EU member states: sport clubs provide the ideal setting for encounters and exchange between people from different cultures and good opportunities to build up social contacts, personal relationships and emotional bonds. Based on this positive assessment of sports, and on the fact that only a small number of Voluntary Local Sports clubs are directly involved in the implementation of targeted actions, the need to investigate the European Framework, regional and national politics of the countries involved, to successfully transfer at the local level practices, was deemed as fundamental. Partners collected integrative policies, goals, resources and activities of the clubs as well as investigated the engagement, attitudes and perceptions of the members, volunteers and decision makers. And, through comparative research were able, in the end, to publish recommendations regarding the impact of interventions, providing the possibility to develop effective policy and, ultimately, impactful practice.