Promoting Unity through Sport for Homeless
Sport is a source and engine of social inclusion and an excellent tool for the integration of individuals who are at risk of social exclusion. Sports aims at fighting against intolerance and discrimination.

The Project
The PUSH project aims at promoting equal opportunity and social inclusion through sport for homeless people and all those living situations of social hardship by expanding the expertise of entities dealing with them and social workers following them. After a first phase of research of good practices and knowledge exchange at EU level, the consortium will define a set of guidelines to allow social workers and sports trainers in collaborating and creating sports programs for homeless people. The guidelines will be tested in the partners’ countries and then disseminated among other entities of the third sector, policymakers and all relevant services and stakeholders – in order to reinclude marginalised people in social life and foster social cohesion.
News
Webinar by Apdes On 10/4/24
On April 10, 2024, around 4:30 pm, the APDES team started the PUSH Project Webinar. About 8 people were present at the presentation, with a work background and interest in the topic.The Webinar began with a brief presentation of the PUSH Project, taking into account its objectives and activities. Additionally an explanation and analysis of […]
PUSH Final Project Event in Megálló
The Final Event was moderated by Megálló at the end of June 2024 and it provided a better understanding of the steps needed to boost participation of homeless and disadvantaged people in different sport activities. Megálló presented the project results and PUSH guideline which has developed for this purpose during PUSH project, supported by the […]
Dissemination Event at Il Cigno 25th june 2024
VII. Winter Classic Megallo Soccer Cup, in which teams from 9 rehabilitation centers/shelters competed. The organizer of the program was the Megallo Group Foundation, who has already won numerous cups at home and across Europe as well. Megallo Group is dedicated of a healthy lifestyle therefore support leisure sports, including football. The event and the […]
Webinar by Apdes On 10/4/24
On April 10, 2024, around 4:30 pm, the APDES team started the PUSH Project Webinar. About 8 people were present at the presentation, with a work background and interest in the topic.The Webinar began with a brief presentation of the PUSH Project, taking into account its objectives and activities. Additionally an explanation and analysis of […]
PUSH Final Project Event in Megálló
The Final Event was moderated by Megálló at the end of June 2024 and it provided a better understanding of the steps needed to boost participation of homeless and disadvantaged people in different sport activities. Megálló presented the project results and PUSH guideline which has developed for this purpose during PUSH project, supported by the […]
Dissemination Event at Il Cigno 25th june 2024
VII. Winter Classic Megallo Soccer Cup, in which teams from 9 rehabilitation centers/shelters competed. The organizer of the program was the Megallo Group Foundation, who has already won numerous cups at home and across Europe as well. Megallo Group is dedicated of a healthy lifestyle therefore support leisure sports, including football. The event and the […]
Megallo testing Guidelines
VII. Winter Classic Megallo Soccer Cup, in which teams from 9 rehabilitation centers/shelters competed. The organizer of the program was the Megallo Group Foundation, who has already won numerous cups at home and across Europe as well. Megallo Group is dedicated of a healthy lifestyle therefore support leisure sports, including football. The event and the […]
Guideline testing by SLG – Life Goals Foundation
Testing the Guidelines Within the PUSH project, we developed guidelines that can be used to start sports activities for Homeless people. In three cities in the Netherlands, these guidelines were tested the last couple of months. In Alphen aan den Rijn, Amsterdam and Purmerend there were several sports activities such as soccer, bootcamp, yoga, cycling […]
Guidelines testing by Apdes
The activity to test the guidelines of the PUSH project took place in Porto’s Assisted Consumption Room in the last week of May 2024. It was a session dedicated to homeless people who use psychoactive substances. This activity was led by an experienced physical education teacher and accompanied by the technical social support team. It […]
The Push Project’s Partners met in Budapest
From 22 to 24 February, the Push Project’s partners met in Budapest for the 3rd transnational meeting foreseen by the Work Package 2 of the Project to define how to test the Guidelines for designing and implementing sports activities that include Homeless People. At the meeting leaded by Megallo Csoport each Partner explained to the […]
Webinar on 20th December 2023
Last December 20th the Il Cigno Cooperative held a webinar on the results achieved by the Push Project. During the webinar, the project manager Carole Braccini presented the results of the research on good practices in Europe regarding the use of sport as a tool for the social inclusion of homeless people and the results […]
Start Life Goals Coordinators Course
The SLG office filled itself with many new faces on Thursday November 23rd. Aside from regular Life Goals colleagues, 10 new coordinators of Life Goals projects throughout the Netherlands were present to start their 3-day coordinators course. All of them are people that share PUSH’s aim to promote equal opportunity and social inclusion through sport. […]
1st PUSH WEBINAR
On Thursday October 12th a webinar organized by SLG was held for the European PUSH project. PUSH, which is an acronym for Promoting Unity Through Sports for Homeless, does exactly that what it stands for. The project aims to develop guidelines about the use of sport’s activities for people that are homeless, for them to […]