Award for integration through sport
The city of Aachen stands for the integration of people of foreign origin and promotes their participation in social life in the city by various means. As part of the integration concept adopted by the city council in October 2006, many institutions work together to provide language support, education and advice for people with a migration background. In addition, associations and charitable organizations also work very successfully in the integration network. These include the local sports clubs.
Sport creates a variety of opportunities for integration, encounters and understanding with people with and without a migration background, builds bridges between cultures and creates a sense of community. Above all, sport offers children and young people, girls and boys alike, many opportunities in organized club life to spend their free time in a meaningful way and to recognize their individual strengths. Sport demonstrates values that make it so universal: Respect, tolerance, peace, solidarity and justice.
Sport contributes to a culture of respect for others and personal responsibility and appeals to people from different cultures. Sport promotes social peace and peaceful coexistence as well as mutual help and trust. Sport contributes to a culture of fair play and social participation.
For integration through sport to succeed, it is crucial that those responsible in politics, society and in sports clubs, that people of all cultures, with and without a migration background, recognize the integrative function of sport and support and implement it sustainably.
Who can receive an award?
The sponsorship prize is awarded to clubs, independent youth welfare organizations, migrant self-organizations or other institutions as well as committed volunteers. All award winners make an exceptional and sustainable contribution to integration work in Aachen through one-off or long-term activities and projects in the field of sport.
Conditions
Special consideration is given to
- Innovative and pioneering activities with a model character that have a sustainable and lasting impact on integration work.
- Projects or activities that are supported by cooperation between different institutions and are networked.
- Activities that are characterized by people from different cultural backgrounds working together and improving communication with one another.
- Activities that are characterized by social aspects, such as free or inexpensive offers or a social commitment that goes beyond the sports offer.
Sports Round Table" working group in Aachen
The integration of migrants through and into organized sport, taking into account the aforementioned values and goals, is the task of the working group "Round Table Sport" in Aachen, which was founded in 2005.
Goals
- Joint development and safeguarding of concepts and implementation of sports activities by, with and for migrants
- Creation of synergy effects through improved communication and coordination of parallel structures
- Providing and promoting access to club sport for migrants
- Award of the "Integration through Sport" prize
- Recruit migrants and their organizations as multipliers
- Promotion of training manager activities