Are we able to use power of spot to solve social problems associated to young people in their everyday life?Is it possible that sport can help to overcome the barriers of young people in their difficult social situation? Is it possible that football can be used by teachers, youth workers not onlyduring physical education lessons?MSIS of INEX-SDA took the challenge and is going to find answers to these questions. The project FOOTBALL CAN MAKE A CHANGE - STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT SOCIAL PROGRAMS IN POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC will develop a long-term educational program Futbol Zmienia, with use of street football method and interactive IT tools. The program will help for all organizations, youth workers, teachers, educators, volunteers and young people with fewer opportunities to build activities which will break down the isolation and exclusion of young people. INEX-SDA and MSIS intend to establish a long-term development strategy, which will help expand the program in the Czech Republic and Polish in years 2018-2022.
In our work, we asked ourselves: are we able to use the power and potential of football to solve social problems related to everyday problems of young people? Can sport help young people in a difficult social situation break through and overcome barriers? Can football be used by teachers / youth workers in education, not only in physical education classes? Together with the organization from the Czech Republic, Inex-Sda, we undertook the challenge of finding answers. We took care of developing an idea and a tool that could serve as a support for young people (including children) and for those working with youth in the area of education and upbringing. Today, with some satisfaction, we can say: yes football can help solve social problems. Yes, football can help overcome the barriers that young people face. Yes, football can be used by people working with youth. Football can enable people working with youth and youth to develop social skills, social commitment. The Fair Play Program was created, which is an educational and social program that uses the football3 method and the idea of gamification on a global scale, which, appropriately enriched with social and composed tasks, create a very simple and useful non-formal education tool giving the opportunity to develop life skills and social skills. We hope that in the long term this program will strengthen relationships and social bonds and enrich participants with knowledge and skills necessary and at the same time useful in functioning with other people in today's world, Fair Play Program, because being Fair Play can go beyond sport, out of the ball foot, because being Fair Play is a value and pattern of attitude for everyone and every day. As a result of our activities, we created the ebook / toolkit of the Fair Play Program and the creator of games and games. These are tools that serve youth workers in their daily work. In order to strengthen the development of programs in Poland and the Czech Republic, a strategy for 2018-2022 was created.