Viale della Liberazione 16/18
20124 Milano MI
Italy
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Inter Futura s.r.l. - Inter Campus - was founded in 1997 with the aim to express the FC Internazionale Milano’s ethical spirit, and today it has become an effective Programme of Corporate Social Responsibility. Inter Campus staff has 12 employees and 8 collaborators. Inter Campus is committed and funded by the controlling company FC Internazionale Milano S.p.A.
Inter Campus project is also funded by private companies and foundations.
Inter Campus formalizes long term cooperation agreements with carefully selected reliable partners in 30 Countries in world supporting their educational programs, sanitary protection initiatives and social inclusion aims in favor of children by adding the sport activity as an educational tool. Through its activity, Inter Campus provides adults technical formation, devolves children their Right to Play and fosters the development of communities.
Since 1997, Inter Campus has been realizing flexible and long-term social and cooperation projects in 30 Countries around the World. Owing to the support of local operators, it uses the game of football as an educational tool in order to restore the right to play to needy children aged 6 to 13.
The main objective of Inter Campus is devolving the Right to Play to thousands of needy children, boys and girls, aged from 6 to 13. Using the values of sport and the game of football as an educational instrument, it also contributes to the development of the local communities, promoting social integration, respect and gender equality. Acting as a catalyst, Inter Campus aims to create a network of local partners and institutions, able to improve and to empower the overall conditions of the local communities, to promote peace and intercultural dialogue and to reduce inequalities.
Starting from the game of soccer as an educational tool, Inter Campus developed a methodology by phases defined as follow:
- Warm up game (educational target will be collaboration)
- Analytical phase (educational target will be problem solving and team building)
- Situational phase (educational target will be empathy and build relationships)
- Final match (educational target will be playing together to overcome differences)
Each training session phase always involves the 4 areas of the children's personality which are the real pillars of the structure and has the objective to develop child’s personality:
- Motor area (basic motor schemes and coordination capability)
- Cognitive area (problem solving, creativity, critical thinking)
- Social area (solution conflicts, play together, communication, build positive relationships
- Emotional/affective area (self-esteem, empathy, self-awareness, positive thinking, frustration tolerance)
The activities are built on 5 fundamental pillars:
1) training on the pitch (and also out of the pitch) where children with different vulnerabilities will play together.
2) the training of local educators from different backgrounds toward a common educational path according with the children's needs
3) meetings with children’s families built on a focus group strategy with the aim to support and empower children's education
4) in each Country Inter Campus organizes two annual field visits (1 project manager and 2 coaches) in which local educators are trained according to a theoretical and practical path of acquisition of values, through focus groups and peer education strategies.
5) evaluation of acquisitions through questionnaires and personal experience diaries, aims to achieve the basic issues managed and developed during the project and activities (Inter Campus Official Social Targets Survey Evaluation, 2020).
Inter Campus will bring its experience and knowledge built during the last 24 years of activity around the World working with different societies, cultures and religions.
Inter Campus is pursuing different social and cultural targets managing prejudices, cultural conflicts and polarizations leading to a common point of view using football.
Sharing these experiences with ALF Network Inter Campus can contribute to give new strategies and educational paths.
Inter Campus would be interested to join ALF Network to take advantage from the experience and competences of all the Organizations involved, specially to improve our knowledge in intercultural trends and to share practical experiences with our local partners, our educators and finally to empower young local leaders from the communities in which Inter Campus implements its projects.