Open Fun Football Schools is a humanitarian project using joyful games and the pedagogical "fun-football-concept" as tool to promote the process of democracy, peace, stability and social cohesion within the Balkan countries, the Trans Caucasus countries and in the Middle East.

 

Open Fun Football Schools is building on the experience of how wars and ethnic conflicts affect people and their posibilities of returning a daily life in post conflict areas.

Although the wars and conflicts officially may have come to an end many years ago and although the physical frontiers and checkpoints are gone, still major tasks remain to stabilize the post conflict communities. Mistrust, fear, hatred and the former frontlines still linger inside people and dividing parallel structures in local communities are still some of the main challenges to be overcomed.

 

Open Fun Football Schools is organised in accordance with our regional strategy aiming at facilitating a) cross boundary cooperation (between nations) and b) cross-entity cooperation (between antagonistic population groups inside the country). Thus, all the seminars for instructors, leaders and coaches include participants from all countries involved in the regis. Further all Open Fun Footballchools are organised in accordance with our so-called "twin-city strategy" where football clubs, leaders, coaches and children from minimum 2 municipalities and three football clubs representing hostile population groups organise an Open Fun Football School jointly.