📸 Highlights from our seminar in Montijo, Portugal 🇵🇹
Coaches, youth workers, mental health professionals, and sports practitioners from 4 partner countries came together to explore how sport can support mental well-being and inclusion 🧠⚽
Through inspiring case studies, expert panels, hands-on workshops, and collaborative planning, we shared tools for creating safe, inclusive, and mentally supportive sports environments 💬🤝
The insights gathered will shape our Training Guidelines and national implementation plans – turning ideas into real action 🌍💪
💚 Sport as a pathway to resilience, inclusion, and better mental health.
FuteBola Sport – Centro de Futebol from Portugal, together with its partners Hate Fighters Network from Serbia, Educazione Benessere from Italy and Taekwon-do Club “Levski-Angels” Angels from Bulgaria implements project “It’s a Mind Game” in order to address issues of mental health crisis among children and young people through sport. Mind Game initiative will gather coaches, youth workers, mental health professionals, and sports practitioners from partner countries to exchange best practices on using sports as a tool for mental well-being and inclusion; will deliver a Training Guidelines document that provides practical methods and strategies for using sports as a tool to promote mental health, foster inclusion, and create safe sports environments; will equip coaches from grassroots sports clubs and schools across all partner countries with new methodologies on mental health, inclusion and safe sports environment; will raise awareness among young people, sports organizations, and policymakers about the benefits of inclusive and mental health-friendly sports environments. Mind Game project is co-financed by the European Union and is implemented in Portugal, Serbia, Italy and Bulgaria from October 2025 to September 2026.
