Projects

Developing pathways for gender-balanced youth leadership in sport governance, so that young people help shape the decisions that shape their sport. YOULEAD – Leading the Game works on a question many sport organisations now ask but few have answered: how can young people, women and men alike, move from being the subject of sport policy [...]

Bringing sport organisations, faith communities and volunteers together across six European countries to make sport genuinely intercultural. FONTES promotes social integration and intercultural dialogue through sport, with particular attention to young people with a migrant background and to multicultural and multi-faith communities. The consortium brings together sport organisations, faith-based bodies and community foundations from six [...]

An Erasmus+ Sport project opening grassroots football to young people facing barriers to participation, through research, training and direct work with clubs. Football for a Chance (F4aC) works to make grassroots football more open, so that young people facing barriers to participation can find a place in the game. It works with football managers, coaches [...]

Using sport to bring migrants and refugees into the life of the local community in Fundão, and building a model other municipalities can adapt. Movimento da Inclusão pelo Desporto (MID), the Movement for Inclusion through Sport, is a social innovation initiative that uses sport to strengthen the inclusion of migrants and refugees and to build [...]

Making sport facilities genuinely accessible, with practical guidance, self-evaluation and certification for people with disabilities. QIS ALL-IN develops practical answers to a familiar problem: a sport facility can be open to everyone on paper and still be unusable for a person with a disability. The project brings together eight organisations from five European countries to [...]

Empowering young people to shape the future of sport in Lebanon through integrity, transparency, leadership and meaningful participation in national sport strategy development. 2025 · BEIRUT, LEBANON As part of the initiative Towards a National Strategy for Sport in Lebanon, the Youth Forum was held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on 14 November […]

A new platform for dialogue, launched at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates with the support of the Soloviev Foundation, exploring sport as a tool for peace. The Sport Diplomacy Dialogues start from the conviction that sport speaks a language understood across borders, and can open doors where formal diplomacy struggles. With the support […]

Helping sport clubs across the Mediterranean understand the UN Sustainable Development Goals and act on them locally. SportEYE started from a gap most clubs recognise: sustainability is discussed at federation and policy level, but rarely translated into what a community club does on a Tuesday evening. The Mediterranean, one of the regions most exposed to [...]

Using sport to promote peace, reconciliation and social cohesion among young people, women and girls in Garowe, Puntland. Sport for Development and Peace in Somalia starts from a simple idea: that a pitch can be one of the few places where young people from different backgrounds meet on equal terms. Within the Sport for Development [...]

A European network and a certified training pathway for the people who bring young refugees into sport. CrosSport worked on the integration of young refugees through sport, and on the practical problem underneath it: the people best placed to bring young refugees into sport are rarely trained for it, and the organisations that reach refugees [...]

A global community bringing sport and faith-based organisations together to build bridges between faiths, cultures and communities, with the support of the Soloviev Foundation. Sport and Faith starts from a simple idea: that sport and faith share the same values of discipline, respect and care for others. The initiative opened on 7 December 2021 with […]

A European network and a practical handbook for municipalities on using sport to prevent the radicalisation of young people at risk. Radical (Ex)Change, the Network for the exchange of good practices on the integration of youngsters at risk of radicalisation through sport, took on a practical question for local authorities: what can a municipality actually [...]

Focusing on the Mediterranian region, Sport4Med is a three-year Mediterranean and multi-sectoral cooperation initiative co-funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ programme. Sport4Med aims to identify the skills of athletes and sportsmen/sportswomen that are valued and recognised in the labour market and to provide trainers and athletes with the necessary tools to improve their [...]

Training coaches across the Mediterranean to help young people build the skills they need for work and for starting their own ventures. Skills by Sport 4 Med treated the coach as the point where sport becomes a route to employment, or fails to. Its purpose was to strengthen coaches’ ability to develop employability and entrepreneurship [...]

Training a new role, the Community Football Driver, to use football for social inclusion in deprived districts, piloted in four European countries. SIDFOOT (Community Football Drivers for social inclusion in deprived districts) invested in people more than programmes. It created the role of Community Football Driver: a coach who works in deprived neighbourhoods and uses [...]

A series of international youth forums on the use of sport for peace and public diplomacy, launched in Berlin. When Sport Breaks Down Walls is a series of international youth forums on the use of sport for peace and public diplomacy. Its premise is that young people are not only the audience for messages about [...]

A project for internally displaced people in Darfur, using sport to promote peace, development and community dialogue. Sport for Peace and Development in Darfur set out to use sport to open space for dialogue among communities of internally displaced people in North Darfur. Save the Dream implemented the project under the cooperation agreement signed in [...]

A cooperation agreement sharing knowledge and resources to improve children’s and young people’s experience of sport. iCoachKids — Cooperation on Coach Education — brings Save the Dream together with an initiative dedicated to the coaching of children and young people. The cooperation agreement, in place since 2017, recognises that the quality of a young person’s [...]

An EU-funded educational programme training coaches, referees and teachers to use sport psychology against violence, discrimination and intolerance. PsyTool — Developing Tools for Sport Educators — is built on the idea that the adults closest to young athletes are best placed to prevent violence, discrimination and intolerance in sport. The EU-funded programme trains coaches, referees [...]

A learning-mobility programme giving young athletes educational experience abroad and a route into sport event management. TASEM — Training Athletes for Sports Events Management — looked at sport from the athlete’s side: how the experience and discipline built in competition can become the basis for a professional future in the sector. The programme offered young [...]

An advocacy campaign launched in Times Square calling for a prolonged Olympic Truce to restore hope and peace through sport. Let the Children Play was an advocacy campaign calling for a prolonged Olympic Truce — the ancient tradition, renewed through the United Nations, of a pause in conflict around the Olympic Games — so that [...]

A volunteer drive that sent 30 Italian sports volunteers to Haiti to support sport and education for children. Let’s Go to Haiti was a volunteer drive connecting Italian sport with long-term work in Haitian communities, sending 30 sports volunteers to support sport and education for children. After the 2010 earthquake, the Centro Sportivo Italiano (CSI) [...]

It’s in your hands to protect A joint campaign with UNICEF, running from the 2014 FIFA World Cup to the Rio 2016 Games, encouraging people to report violence against children. Proteja Brasil was a joint campaign of Save the Dream and UNICEF. Major sporting events draw large numbers of visitors to host cities and can [...]

A grassroots football initiative with Aston Villa and CEQUIN, using the game to improve the wellbeing of disadvantaged young women in Delhi. Empowering Young Women through Sport — Delhi Dreams used grassroots football to improve the wellbeing of disadvantaged young women in Delhi, giving them a space to play, build confidence and connect with one [...]

Educational workshops at the first-ever FINA Youth Programme, alongside the 12th World Swimming Championships in Doha. Save the Dream took part in the first-ever FINA Youth Programme, held alongside the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Doha, using the occasion to bring the values of sport to young people. Rather than staying on the [...]

A photographic collection of more than 100 images made by Magnum photographers in the twelve Brazilian World Cup host cities. Magnum Photos with Save the Dream — Noites do Brasil is a collection of more than 100 photographs made by Magnum photographers in the twelve host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. [...]

A national competition for Italian high school students promoting a positive culture of cheering in sport. TifiAMO Positivo — Let’s Cheer Positively — invited Italian high school students to think about what it means to support a team, and to show that passion in the stands can go hand in hand with respect. Implemented with [...]

Sport integrity lessons for school students across Qatar, delivered through the national Schools Olympic Program. The Schools Olympic Program is an annual initiative of the Qatar Olympic Committee, the Supreme Education Council, the Qatar School Sport Federation and the Qatar Paralympics Committee, held in Qatar since 2007. Each edition is built around a theme, giving [...]