SALTO-Youth Participation - EuroMed Youth Programme IV

GOOD PRACTICE 1.3
Brief description
Objectives
FOOTBALL
SUPPORTERS
IN THEIR
CITIES
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Beneficiary
Fundacja im. Kazimierza Górskiego
(The Kazimierz Górski Foundation)
ul. Madalińskiego 49/51 m.1
Partnership
Poland
Public institutions : Gdańsk City Council, Wrocław
City Council, Warsaw City Council
Associations : “Lwy Północy” Lechia Gdańsk Supporters
Association, “Wielki Śląsk” Association,
Legia Warszawa Supporters Association
National treasury partnership : PL.2012
Germany
Informal youth groups : Fanladen St. Pauli, HSV
Fanprojekt
Non-governmental organization : Jugend und Sport
e.V, Football Supporters Europe (FSE)
Public institution :
Koordinationsstelle Fanprojekte (KOS)
Budget
57 695 Euros
m a s s
e v e
n t
Contacts
eliza.ostojska@gmail.com
fundacja.kzimierza.gorskiego@gmail.com
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The main reason for launching the
“Football Supporters In Their Cities”
project was the wish to improve the
mutual relationships between the fans’
associations and the institutions, as well
as to modify actions undertaken by these
specific non-governmental organizations.
Its implementation aims to strengthen
democratization within the community
of fans and back up the positive actions
initiated by its members. Moreover, the
project realization is based on creating
a common-ground that will initiate (or
improve) the dialogue between the local
fans’ associations and the institutions,
and that will also assist in bringing sanctioned
procedures into being, especially
when it comes to widely understood
communication among all the subjects,
as well as the structures aimed at ensuring
their coordination. Through popularizing
democracy and deepening the
fans’ understanding of themselves and
their environment, the project’s main
objective is then to build solid grounds
for local community integration and
to develop civic society through active
youth participation in these procedures.
How did your idea come up
Granting Poland and Ukraine with
the organization of UEFA Euro 2012
contributed not only to taking specified
actions in order to prepare the very tournament,
but also to increasing awareness
as far as the Polish fans’ environment
is concerned, the latter deriving from
a necessity to guarantee safety during
the competition. The negative image of
the fans’ world, with its racial or anti-
Semitic attitudes and violent behaviour,
together with a lack of harmonious
cooperation between the local supporters’
associations and the institutions,
made the Kazimierz Górski Foundation
decide to create a social project
which would, at least partly, contribute
to solving the problems diagnosed.
Implementation of the “Football
Supporters In Their Cities” project
workshops is based on the assumption
that not only will solid and effective
partnerships be built and the
image of the fans improve, but also
that the project participants will gain
knowledge in the following areas :
• how an association functions within
the democratic structures
• what its means of progress are, especially
when it comes to the effectiveness
of its actions
• how to use the project method within
a fans’ non-governmental organization
• how to obtain extra-financing and
take part in competitions organized
by local governments, non-governmental
and European organizations
• how to promote an association
and the situation for the
fansin general through the use
of conscious image creation
• how the European organizations
connected with the fans’ movement
(Koordinationsstelle Fanprojekte,
Football Supporters Europe) function
• how to use the fan-coaching
technique as a means of working
with the fans, recommended
by the European Committee
• how the fans’ embassies operate
during UEFA tournaments
• how to cooperate with foreign
partners at a European level.
POLAND
GERMANY
06.03.2009 — 01.06.2009
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