{"id":9923,"date":"2025-11-05T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:43:13","slug":"pass-a-ball-make-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/pass-a-ball-make-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass a Ball, Make a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re proud to announce Pass a Ball, Make a Friend \u2014 a project that uses football to fight hate speech, reduce conflicts, and promote inclusion among local teams. \"\u26bd\"<\/span>\"\ud83e\udd1d\"<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pass a Ball, Make a Friend project will be implemented by Club for Youth Empowerment 018 (KOM 018) from Serbia in cooperation with \u041c\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u043a\u043e \u0435\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \/ Youth European Society – YES<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> from Bulgaria, Barcel’hona Sports Events<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> from Spain, JuvenTagus – Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Desportiva e Juvenil from Portugal, Tiquitaca Associazione-Sportiva<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> from Italy and Futbolen Klub Septemvri from Bulgaria. Pass a Ball, Make a Friend project aims to address the escalating conflicts and hate speech among local football teams, which have led to physical fights. Project will address these challenges by using football as a platform to combat hate speech, reduce physical conflicts and promote social inclusion. By promoting peaceful sportsmanship, “Pass a Ball, Make a Friend” not only improves relationships within football teams but also sets an example for broader community cohesion and understanding. Specific objectives: 1) To create a comprehensive training module designed to instill values of fair play, respect, and inclusivity in young football players and supporters; 2) To bring together young football players from partner countries to promote intercultural exchange, collaboration, and sportsmanship; 3) To reduce physical conflicts by teaching conflict resolution and fair play, ensuring the focus remains on the spirit of the game; 4) To equip young football players and supporters with leadership skills to become ambassadors for sportsmanship in their teams, communities, and beyond; 5) To raise awareness about the problem of conflicts and hate speech among the local football teams as well as among the supporters; 6) To promote social inclusion by encouraging social dialogue cooperation among diverse teams, teams\u2019 supporters and members of local communities and in this way breaking down stereotypes and prejudices. Pass a ball will implement the following main WPs: 1. Project Implementation; 2. Empowerment of young football players and young supporters; 3. Pass a Ball, Make a Friend Campaign; 4. Visibility and Dissemination. The activities of the “Pass a Ball” project will be carried out in Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Spain over a period of 24 months, from 01.11.2025 to 31.10.2027. The project is co-financed by the European Union.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We\u2019re proud to announce Pass a Ball, Make a Friend \u2014 a project that uses football to fight hate speech, reduce conflicts, and promote inclusion among local teams. Pass a Ball, Make a Friend project will be implemented by Club for Youth Empowerment 018 (KOM 018) from Serbia in cooperation with \u041c\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u043a\u043e \u0435\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e \u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kom018.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}