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European Football Week

European Football Week News

Special Olympics European Football Week is an annual campaign running every year in late spring, promoting inclusion in football across Europe and Eurasia. The campaign involves an estimated 35,000+ athletes and Unified partners in over 45 countries. With the support of our partners, European Football Week aims at creating new sports opportunities for our athletes starting at grassroots level and building up to international events.
European Union Funded Projects

Judo Intellectual Disability Project

This innovative project’s goal is to use judo to promote the social and cultural integration of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID), and bring together eight organizations from six countries.
Research and Evaluation

Project ALL STAR

Project ALL STAR aims to understand how Special Olympics programs improve athletes' lives. This evaluation project looks at how Special Olympics programs affect athletes. It studies their health and well-being over time. It seeks to identify lasting impacts on their physical, social-emotional, and mental health. Special Olympics is dedicated to changing the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). They do this through sports training and competitions, as well as health, education, and leadership programs.
Special Olympics Regions

Special Olympics North America Softball Championship

Athletes and Unified partners from throughout the Region competed in softball at the MAC Multi Athletic Complex in Midwest City, OK and Devon Park in Oklahoma City, OK.”
European Union Funded Projects

Special Olympics Operation Safeguard

Special Olympics Operation Safeguard is funded through EU Erasmus+ programme and will support the implementation of safeguarding across the SOEE region. While most safeguarding policies focus on children and youth, it is essential to protect vulnerable adults with intellectual disability (ID) also and this project will focus on correcting this. The other partners in the project are Special Olympics Ireland, Special Olympics Slovakia, Special Olympics Estonia, Special Olympics Cyprus, Special Olympics Belgium and the Centre for Sports and Human Rights (CSHR) - https://www.sporthumanrights.org/. CSHR are a key partner in this project as they have a wealth of experience in developing safeguarding policies and procedures
European Union Funded Projects

Special Olympics Environmental Sustainability Impact

European Union logo. Text reads: Co-funded by the European Union
The Environmental Sustainability Impact project breaks new ground as it focuses on how to make Special Olympics events and operations more environmentally sustainable. Funded through Erasmus, the project will last for 24 months in total, finishing on the 30th November 2024. The partners in this project will be SO Europe Eurasia Foundation, Special Olympics Italy and Special Olympics Belgium.
European Union Funded Projects

Special Champions League

This Special Olympics Belgium-led project is funded through the Erasmus+ programme and SOEE are a key partner. Special Olympics role is to advise the professional football clubs in the project on how to develop coaching programmes and football teams for people with ID.
European Union Funded Projects

Special Olympics World Summer Games

The Environmental Sustainability Impact project breaks new ground as it focuses on how to make Special Olympics events and operations more environmentally sustainable. Funded through Erasmus, the project will last for 24 months in total, finishing on the 30th November 2024. The partners in this project will be SO Europe Eurasia Foundation, Special Olympics Italy and Special Olympics Belgium.
European Union Funded Projects

Young Integrity Ambassadors Programme

Young Integrity Ambassadors Programme (YIAP) and is funded by the Erasmus+. The project lead is EUROPEAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL SPORTS ORGANISATION (ENGSO). SO Europe Eurasia Foundation are a partner in this project to ensure that youth with an intellectual disability (ID) are represented in the project. The other partners in the project are: Riksidrottsförbundet, European Lotteries, EUSA, Smaland, A Confederação do Desporto, Opes Italia, Union of Lithuanian Sports Federation, Lithuania Olympic Committee. For more information on the project please see - https://www.engso-education.eu/youth-integrity-ambassadors-programme/
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