Integration through sport: Recklinghausen is breaking new ground for diversity!

Integration through sport: Recklinghausen is breaking new ground for diversity!

The municipal integration center of the district of Recklinghausen (KI) and the district sports association Recklinghausen (KSB) have signed a significant cooperation agreement to promote integration through sport. This agreement aims to support sports development in the district of Recklinghausen in the long term.

Patrick Hundt, Head of Social Affairs, emphasizes the role of sport as an integrative element in which people come together and experience together fun. Klaus Schild, CEO of the KSB, emphasizes the importance of participation in sports and the cooperation with the AI.

planned measures and initiatives

As part of the cooperation, several measures are provided to promote integration through sport. These include:

• exchange meeting once in the half year.
• Joint training and further training for actors of organized sport on diversity sensitivity and criticism of racism.
• Promotion of voluntary commitment from people with immigration history.
• Implementation of integration -promoting events for various target groups.
• expansion of cultural-sensitive sports and health offers.

These measures are part of the "Pact for Sport", which the district administration Recklinghausen and the KSB have joined. This pact was first agreed in 2008 and continued in 2013 and 2017, with the aim of developing, strengthening, strengthening and comprehensively supporting sports.

The agreed work areas in the pact include not only sports policy and sports facilities, but also the promotion of width and child and youth sports as well as integration through various sports offers.

In addition, the program "Integration through Sport" of the German Olympic Sports Association (DOSB) is implemented via state and regional coordinations at the local level. This program offers support for sports clubs, network partners and volunteers in integration work.

The implementation takes place by specialists in the city and district sports associations as part of the specialist system of the LSB-NRW and is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). The goals of the program include equality in sport, the intercultural opening of the sports clubs as well as the promotion of membership, active participation and voluntary commitment from migrants in sports clubs.