Sport, inclusion and interculturality in society. Design and validation of a questionnaire about integration through sport

This handbook was produced from the results of the project: Sport, Inclusion and Interculturality in Society (SPIIS). This book gathers the experiences carried out by a multidisciplinary team formed by two associations of Italy and Turkey together with a university in Spain: Associazione AlPlurale, from Trapani (Italy), Sorged Association, from Sorgun (Turkey) and San Antonio Catholic University, from Murcia (Spain). Briefly, these three institutions have the necessary characteristics to be able to carry out an immigrant integration project through sport (Sport, Inclusion and Interculturality in Society: SPIIS), where interculturality is the most important value that we must work on: • UCAM is a private Catholic university with 18 years of history and more than 15.000 students that offers 24 prominent European official graduations, 35 Master programs, 17 PhD programs and other prestigious titles. Its teaching method is based on a personalized attention with reduced students per classes and a personal tutor for each student. UCAM also offers a modern system of distance teaching. UCAM is strongly linked with the work world through study plans adapted to market exigencies, obligatory internships in institutions and enterprises in every program and research programs in collaboration with big regional, national and multinational companies. UCAM has a special environment both cultural and historical. Its main campus is on the XVII century Geronimo’s Monastery where infrastructures and labs provide UCAM’s students with excellent facilities to learn practical skills. Everything is for the benefit of the students, who are the core concern of UCAM. UCAM is a Catholic institution in dialogue with the modern world for the purposes of evangelization and the improvement of human society as a whole. This spirit is made visible in personalized lectures with a reduced number of students and personal tutors for each student. UCAM shares its Christian values through academic subjects, volunteering projects, meetings, congress and seminaries. The major aims of the Catholic University San Antonio in Murcia in the development of its activity are: – Teaching higher education as a spreading vehicle of science, technology, culture and as a training method for researchers and preparation of professionals who can help in the development of the individual, family and society. – Contributing to the cultural, social and economic development of society and to the creation of conditions to improve the quality of life and the environment by developing the skills of the students as individuals and members of a society to which they must serve. – Updating its qualifications and teaching and non-teaching services in order to meet external customers and students’ expectations and needs, ensuring a future. – Promoting the relationships with other universities and companies to provide students with professional opportunities, specializations and research in a borderless world. – Promoting integral education. – Keeping personalized teaching, encouraging personal autonomy, teamwork and the direct relationship between professor and student. – Increasing student employability skills. • Associazione ALPLURALE. It’s an Association of Social Promotion born in 2009 with the goals of solidarity, social promotion, and the improvement of the quality of life in the local community. We promote an active citizenship, social inclusion and the “well-being”, offering new services, cultural as well as recreational activities designed for all age groups. Special attention is focused on the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, for which social networks of people, institutions along with organizations are built and strengthened with the aim of making them being included and an active part of the society. We propose and produce innovation through experimental tools – above all in the ICT field – capable of activating development, and therefore social changes. AlPlurale is mainly active in the Province of Trapani but also cooperates with other profit/non-profit organizations either at a national or an international level in the following fields providing services, courses and activities/initiatives: – Environment and Territory Enhancement; organizing meetings about the environment and the local naturalistic/cultural resources of the territory or implementing workshops for children and young about recycling. – Immigrants: providing Italian language/culture courses to facilitate social inclusion; organizing initiatives on the immigration issue to raise awareness among people. – Courses and Training: cooperating with a regional vocational training center for adults on the traineeship period regarding the fields of: marketing/communication; cultural/touristic resources; food and wine local resources; Web Developing and ICT tools. – Young, Aged, Disabled, Sport: together with Municipalities, Institutions and Schools activities have been implemented on an “Active Citizenship” for the young; courses to support an “active ageing”; art- related workshops for the disabled to facilitate their own expressivity; ICT workshops for schools students on the a programming language; International Youth Work-camp about the knowledge of the environment, its resources and its safeguard. – Tackling the school-dropping out in primary and secondary schools using the Storytelling methodology while supporting school- leavers in gaining a vocational training so to enter the labor market. The Storytelling is used and seen as a tool to let the young express themselves and their own stories, sharing them with other peers so to give a focus on the difficulties they have faced. – “Sport, art and social: when they walk side by side”: an initiative addressed to children from 6 to 13 - in cooperation with an artistic workshop – within the “mini basketball Olympics” event organized at Christmas 2014 to bring nearer children to sport and art from a social perspective due to the fact that children from every social situation have been included without any discriminatory approach. • SORGED Association: It’s an association that was founded in order to perform the ones: Young people’s carrying out the works in the field of social, cultural, education, entrepreneurship, unemployment, democracy, health and sport, their contribution to the youth development, supporting solidarity and cooperation between young people, stimulating the young people’s entrepreneurships, helping young people to get information and ability about getting the entrepreneurships, supporting the young people especially who are disabled to the society that they are living in to the adaptation of them. As Sorgun Youth Association, our mission is to enable the young people to be sensitive about entrepreneurship by doing facilities through sports and outdoor facilities for the young people and their lives within the frame of European consciousness with the limited possibilities, to raise awareness, to enable them to be active in social life, to keep their life willingness alive, to make them feel that they are parts of the society and raise awareness in the youth. As Sorgun Youth Association, our vision has been determined as follows “Our heart beating for the continuation of our lives should beat for the entrepreneurships of our youth”. Sorgun Youth Association consists of young people who have different educational, cultural and social levels, different interests and skills. Our members who consist of young people active in the group, and other voluntary young students of universities have the potential to contribute the young people be integrated to the society living in peace with the understanding of social responsibility and dynamic excitements in the district and countryside. We are in the efforts to contribute the young people lead happy, peaceful, lovely, embracing people with tolerance