Mentors

Cristina Vladescu Project Manager Terre des hommes Foundation Romania

https://www.tdh.ch/en/our-interventions/romania

Cristina Vladescu believes that sport is one of the best tools to bring people from different cultures together and stay connected. She is a psychologist and has been working for Terre des hommes for almost 10 years on topics related to sport, inclusion, fair-play, resilience and working with children and families affected by migration, refugees and asylum seekers, safeguarding children in sports. Besides working within projects and programmes implemented by Terre des hommes in Romania, she has also provided training and coaching to other Terre des hommes delegations from Egypt, Jordan and Albania. Cristina believes in and promotes child participation through a methodology called “Movement, Games and Sport” and all the other tools developed by Terre des hommes for working with children and young people.

Daniela Conti Projecting department, Social policies, International relationship UISP Italy http://www.uisp.it/nazionale/

Daniela Conti has worked at UISP since 1996 in different areas: projects, social policy and international relations. Daniela’s main fields of work include using sport as a tool for social inclusion, fighting against any form of discrimination, equal opportunity, combating racism and homophobia in sport, sport for asylum seekers and refugees, and training on intercultural understanding and working with refugees. She is involved in several projects, including the Erasmus+ project Match-Sport (against violent discrimination in sport), Pinocchio (against racism and discrimination among youth) and EYESS (European Youth Engaging Solidarity in Sport). Daniela has been a member of the board at FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) since 2010 and Liberi Nantes ASD (refugee sports club) since 2012.

George Springborg Head of Network Development Streetfootballworld Germany

www.streetfootballworld.org

George Springborg has been a member of the streetfootballworld team for the past fifteen years and in that time he has been involved in a variety of projects that have focused on the integration of refugees through sport – and football in particular. Those projects have involved streetfootballworld network member organisations globally that have enormous expertise in how football can be used to support refugee and host communities to foster exchange, understanding and cooperation. As someone who has lived and played sport (badly) on four continents, he has experienced first-hand its integrative power and believes that there is still so much more that we can do collectively to maximise the potential of sport for transforming lives and communities around the world.

Julie Lenormant Project manager of social innovation projects Play International France

Julie Lenormant manages the Playlab, a collective and international structure dedicated to social innovation through sport. Its role is to foster the emergence and acceleration of solutions using sport to meet societal challenges. The Playlab held a European incubator dedicated to social inclusion thought sport for asylum seekers and refugees in 2018. Following up on this initiative, the Playlab continues to foster social inclusion through sport thanks to a 3-year European project dedicated to build a collective solution bringing together players from various fields (social, sports, institutional, etc.) working together to create and implement quality educational content.

Hanna Ellen Havstam Johansson Project Leader at Street Games project RF-SISU Vastra Gotaland Sweden

https://www.havstamfotografi.com/

Hanna Johansson is a Project Manager at RF-SISU Västra Götaland and StreetGames Gothenburg om Sweden. She holds a master’s degree in Photo & Media Production through Linkoping University. Originally, she got her Photo and Journalistic degree while living among mountains in Alaska where she also played college basketball. For the past three years, she has been working at the sports organisation RF-SISU Västra Götaland with the project StreetGames, which harnesses the power of sport to create positive change in disadvantaged areas in the West Coast district of Sweden. She is currently working on ISCA’s MOVE Beyond project, where she is working in partnership with Save the Children Region West on a pilot project that has put refugees in the driver’s seat of sports activities as Intercultural Coordinators of Physical Activity.

Karine Teow Field programs manager ITTF Foundation Germany

https://www.ittffoundation.org/

Karine Teow has been involved in sport for development since 2007. She currently works for the International Table Tennis Foundation (ITTF) where she oversees the Dream Building and Legacy Programmes related to sustainability and supporting local change makers. In this frame, the Foundation supports 4 projects working with and for refugees and they signed the 2019 Sport Coalition. Karine holds a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management and a master’s degree in Peace, Conflict and Development.

Karina Lackner Co-Founder and Programme Director Kicken ohne Grenzen Austria

http://www.kicken-ohne-grenzen.at/

Karina Lackner studied Digital Art and Film in Vienna and São Paulo. Since 2003 she’s been initiating and curating projects at the interface between Art, Film and Politics. From 2008 to 2010 she lived in São Paulo to film a documentary about the Austrian colony Treze Tílias and collaborated as a free editor for the Austrian football magazine Null Acht. Since 2015 Karina Lackner has been the co-founder and project director for Kicken ohne Grenzen, an open, educational football project for young people with a migrant background. The project has received several awards, like the #BeInclusive EU Sport Award 2019 and the Austrian Women Integration Award in 2017. Karina has five years of on-the-field experience of using football as a tool to support people from disadvantaged communities integrate into society. Her main responsibilities within the project lie at programme development, monitoring and evaluation and international networking.

Martyn Rijkhoff Project manager Stichting European Football for Development Network (EFDN) the Netherlands

Martyn Rijkhoff has worked as a Project Manager and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at EFDN since 2016. Martyn has expertise in a number of topics such as social inclusion, health, refugee and migrant inclusion, elderly sport, social cohesion and active citizenship promotion. As EFDN Project Manager, Martyn is responsible for the implementation and coordination of PAN-European programmes such as Active Fans, Community Champions League and Welcome through Football. In addition, Martyn designs, coordinates and delivers a number of youth and staff exchanges across Europe every year. He is also responsible for the set-up and maintenance of an M&E system used throughout the network of EFDN.

Mia Salvemini Project Manager SchweryCade Switzerland

on projects in sport and social responsibility, with a particular focus on football. This has included working on UEFA’s annual Football and Social Responsibility report and SchweryCade’s RESPONSIBALL platform. In 2018, Mia helped organise and run the first RESPONSIBALL Sport for Refugees Forum in Lausanne, which brought together refugees, key stakeholders in the sport industry, NGOs, governing bodies, communities and others.

Raffaella Chiodo Karpinsky Project Manager UISP Italy

http://www.uisp.it/nazionale/

Since 1985 Raffaella Chiodo Karpinsky has been working in the field of in international cooperation with Africa, Latin America and Middle East with different Italian NGOs and public institutions. She has focused on the anti-Apartheid movement at an Italian and international level as member of the National Anti-Apartheid Coordination. Additionally, Raffaella has been active as an international observer in peace negotiations and electoral processes for NGOs in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. She has been a Spokeswoman for the Italian General States of International Solidarity and Development Cooperation and advisor for relations with African civil society and the development cooperation of the deputy Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2006-2008) and advisor for international affairs and cooperation for the Mayor of the City of Rome (1994-2000). At present, she is a member of the Commission for International Cooperation of the Municipality of Rome, and works to reinforce the antiracist movement in Italy promoting networking and activities for support of refugees. As part of ISCA’s Grassroots Sport Diplomacy project, she worked on a pilot project with UISP in Lebanon to use sport as a tool for integration of refugees from Palestine and Syria.