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On this page you can find the latest news from our activities across the world. We update the news page as often as possible, with stories from our partner countries as well as from the headquarter in Copenhagen.
Gathering youths virtually across borders
As we are facing challenges in fulfilling our vision of “bringing people together” physically due to the corona situation, the…
Volunteers start training at OFFS in Ukraine
On August 17, a training seminar with volunteers at the Open Fun Football Schools was held in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. The…
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Training for 48 volunteer leaders and coaches of the OFFS project in Moldova
From 10 to 14 August 2020, 48 volunteer leaders and coaches from the Open Fun Football Schools in Moldova participated in two…
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Cross Cultures contributes to global webinar on Safeguarding Children in Sport
“Our approach is bottom-up and engaging the voluntary coaches as well as parents, schools, communities and national protection bodies in…
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Rethinking the Open Fun Football Schools in Georgia
The Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) season has started in Georgia and is functioning according to the Corona guidelines. Normally…
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Dani Olmo supports Cross Cultures
”We must be conscious of the impact football can have” – Dani Olmo, RB Leipzig From now on Dani Olmo,…
Summer E-camp – providing valuable experiences
As Cross Cultures has challenges in fulfilling our vision “bringing people together” physically due to the corona situation, the whole…
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Stories of postive change from OFFS in Ukraine
In a report made by Cross Cultures in 2019/2020 on the Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) and the School+Sport+Police (SSP)…
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Cross Cultures Virtual Clubhouse
Cross Cultures Virtual Clubhouse is an initiative developed in light of the Covid-19 crisis as a result of the shutdown…
Cross Cultures Jordan starts fun outdoor-training
In Jordan, everyday training-sessions have been established according to the local authorities recommendations and Cross Cultures re-opening guidelines. The sessions…
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The first Cross Cultures E-coach Online Education
12 young coaches from 12 different countries are now educated as Cross Cultures e-coach educators by participating in an online…
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Evaluation of; Playing for a Common Future – Dialogue through Sports in Jordan
Street Football World (SFW) has conducted a technical evaluation of the project: Playing for a Common Future, Dialogue Through Sports,…
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Hotline For Children – Safeguarding Children in Tunisia
The reports on violence and abuse of children at home have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic and the number of…
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Corona-guidelines for the re-opening of Open Fun Football Schools
You can read the full report here or see the guidelines on the photos below! First, an introduction: Severa Open Fun…
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Open Fun Football Schools in South Sudan on UEFA Foundation
UEFA Foundation for Children has posted a project description about the Open Fun Football Schools programme in South Sudan. The…
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UEFA report on Football and Social Responsibility
On April 28, UEFA published the report ‘Football and Social Responsibility’ for the period of 2018/2019. As an example of…
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Online video lessons – StayActive StayHome
During this time some of Cross Cultures partners have taken the opportunity to record online video lessons for everyone in…
Online Organizational development – Bringing people together
As bringing people together in a physical context is not possible at the moment due to COVID-19, the unique Cross…
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Greetings from trainers and coaches!
From CCPA Tunisia: https://youtu.be/KIwW_l8GxEA And from CCPA Jordan: https://youtu.be/tJ68kJcdqY0 https://youtu.be/pv44S3TAvbk
Voluntary coaches are helping with the COVID-19 crisis in Tunisia
Below are photos from Cross Cultures Tunisia, where voluntary coaches are helping The Ministry of Health in providing information regarding…
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Cross Cultures Tunisia supports the Ministry of Health
Cross Cultures partner in Tunisia and Cross Cultures voluntary Fun Football coaches have stopped all project activities and are now…
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Important message regarding COVID-19
By Anders Levinsen Dear all, The Corona cloud is still spreading and the situation is deteriorating every hour. The world…
Ukrainian Association of Football and Cross Cultures looks ahead
“We are committed to continuing and enlarging our support to our joint project” the First Vice-president of the Ukrainian Association…
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Sports in our neighbourhood
A revitalizing sports day was held on 14th January 2020 under the name of “Sports in Our neighbourhood” as part…
Cross Cultures Activity Report 1998-2018
From 1998-2918 Cross Cultures have mobilised over 80.000 local volunteers that have organised the Open Fun Football School program for…
Sports festival in Taza
Cross Cultures and the association “Femmes, réalisations et valeurs “(Women Achievements and Values) organized in partnership with the Regional Center…
Scouts and Cross Cultures join hands at Youth Festival
On December 21st 2019 the large Youth Festival was organised in Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunisia. Cross Cultures and our…
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Sports day in the local prison of Bouizakarne
On Monday 9th of December, Cross Cultures and The Women’s Achievements and Values Association organized in collaboration with the General…
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Video update from Morocco
A short video-update from Morocco showing clips of Cross Cultures victory races, sports days and caravans.
Tamaras change
Written by Tamara Benkovíc I am Tamara Benković and I come from Orašje (BH). I am a student in Split…
Sport days in Driouch
Cross Cultures and the association Women, Achievements and Values organizes two sports days in Driouch in the North East of…
OFFS in South Sudan hosts UEFA Foundation for Children
The Open Fun Football Schools in South Sudan had the pleasure of hosting Mr Urs Kluser, the director of UEFA…
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Cross Cultures is celebrating Universal Children’s day
Universal Children’s Day is celebrated by Cross Cultures and by our partners in 17 countries as we join hands with…
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Social Responsibility in Football in Moldova
The collaboration between the Police, the Football Federation of Moldova and Cross Cultures is taking a new step to advance…
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H.R.H Crown Princes Mary of Denmark opens youth festival in Morocco
To warm up and prepare for the Youth Dialogue Festival in Rabat, Morocco October 4th HRH Crown Princess Mary of…
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Youth Dialogue Festival in Copenhagen
In September 2019 Cross Cultures attended The Youth Dialogue Festival (Ungdommens Folkemøde)in Copenhagen. At the festival, the Danish-Arab Partnership Programme…
293 participants at OFFS in Morocco
In collaboration with the association Women, Achievements and Values, a special sports day was organized at the family camp on…
Cross Cultures is pioneering sports initiatives for safeguarding children in Moldova
From the 31st of July till the 4th of august two seminars for 168 volunteer leaders and coaches from the…
Migrant children participate in OFFS
In the municipalities of Bužim, Cazin, and Bihać, migrant children from the Middle East participated in the Open Fun Football…
Vnuci Sport Project brings people together
The implementation of project Vnuci sport, supported by International Olympic- Committee Development Grant 2019, kicked off on the 22nd-23rd of…
New life of OFFS Georgia
By Mamuka Kvaratskhelia Since March 2019 Open Fun Football Schools (OFFS) Georgia became part of Georgia Football Federation Grassroots department.…
South Sudan embraces the Open Fun Football Schools
“Thank you very much coach. I really liked the seminar from the first minute. The topics have been new and…
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Open Fun Football Schools in South Sudan
By South Sudan Football Association* The Open fun football schools project supported by the UEFA Foundation for Children has…
12th Victory Race in Morocco
Our Moroccan partner, the Association Women, Achievements and Values, have had their 12th edition of the famous Victory Race. Cross Cultures’…
Open Fun Football Schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Article from: https://balkandiskurs.com/en/2019/04/04/open-fun-football-schools-in-bih/?fbclid=IwAR3miWVSgJBnjoCsMVQbH6nduKE3YlYbuuynZRPK5Qe4pvI1EMZ9fSRzVzw The importance of sports for children and young adults cannot be underestimated. Sports are a great way…
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New OFFS season kick-start in in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
On April 2nd, Zaporizhzhya started a the 2019 season of “Open Fun Football Schools”, carried out with the support of…
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Football is helping refugees and women in Lebanon
Since 2016 Cross Cultures has been working with the Barca Foundation’s program called Futbolnet in Lebanon. The program has hosted…
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Sports for life skills
By Hanne Lund Madsen, Global Programme Director, Cross Cultures “I clearly see how Sports for All develop life skills…
Open Fun Football Schools starting up in South Sudan
Together with UEFA Foundation for Children and NIRAS, Cross Cultures has started a new project in South Sudan. The project…
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Connie Hedegaard impressed by Sport-for-all Caravan
Connie Hedegaard, Former Minister for the environment and EU Commissioner for climate change is one of Cross Cultures’ strong board…
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Former Ambassador Ulrik Federspiel elected as new Chairman
We are pleased to welcome former Ambassador and Director General at the Prime Minister’s Office Ulrik Federspiel as the new…
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Grandparents and grandchildren playing together in new IOC Development Grant
Vnuci- Sport 2019 20 years ago Cross Cultures’ Open Fun Football Schools program started in Macedonia. Many of the people…
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70% female participants at Sport for All Caravan in Morocco
By Mohammed Benchrif Under the slogan “Sports is a cornerstone for development”, the Association Women, Achievements and Values organized the fifth Sports for…
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Regional Youth Leader Training in Morocco
By: Hanne Lund Madsen, Global Programme Director, Cross Cultures The enthusiasm of 60 youth leaders from Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan is…
Special sporting days in Morocco
By: Mohammed Bencherif I believe that natural and geographical conditions are not an obstacle at all. Rather, it is a…
Impressive youth participation in Sport for All Caravan in the province of Driouch in North-East Morocco
By: Mohammed Bencherif 500 kilometers from the Moroccan capital Rabat, in the Driouch province, the association “Femmes Réalisations et Valeurs”…
Sport for All Caravan in Morocco with focus on juveniles and women prisoners
By: Mohammed Benchrif On Friday December 28, a sports day was held in Taghjijt (Guelmim province) in order to raise awareness…
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Capacity Building Seminar in Moldova
By: Marianne Frølund Coaches, leaders and police officers were gathered, to participate in the Capacity Building Seminar in Moldova on…
A tribute to Gia Revazishivili
My very good friend, Tamada, colleague, OFFS-instructor, and the former president of the regional football federation in the Gori district Gia Revazishvili has unfortunately passed away. He died of cancer.
Sport for All Caravan in Morocco
More than 3.000 people participated at the Sport for All Caravan last weekend under the slogan “Sports for all is a constitutional right”.
World Heart Day in Croatia
CCPA Country Coordinator in Croatia, Renata Gomaz, has written a small report from the World Heart Day in Zagreb September 29.
Democratic Youth Meeting in Denmark
CCPA invited international guests for the Democratic Youth Meeting (Danish: Ungdommens Folkemøde) in Valbyparken last week. Here the young people got to discuss across nations and enter into dialogue with the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Youth Leader Seminar in Ukraine
From 14th to 16th August our partner Street Football World travelled to Kharkiv, Ukraine, to facilitate a seminar together with CCPA for 85 young leaders from across the country.
Sports for all: a pillar of social cohesion
Last week Patrice Bergamini the EU Ambassador of Tunisia visited our Tunisian colleague Dr. Marwen Chaieb to see his project in Tunis. Dr. Chaieb has changed one of the city´s most criminal areas into a mekka full of sports and traditional games for the local people, especially for kids and for the youth. One of the goals is to get young people out of the streets and criminal behavior by offering them a community based on sport and friendships instead.
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Child Protection Seminar in Jahorina, Bosnia
In July CCPA in Bosnia was hosting the season´s first Child Protection Seminar for over 90 leaders and coaches. The seminar was build on four workshops, each focusing on different aspects of child protection in CCPAs programs, and resulted in guidelines for each of the schools involved.
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Capacity-building seminar for local cross sectorial-networks in Ukraine
The seminar was held within the framework of the project “Civil Society and Public Sector Cooperation for Reconciliation, Social Integration and Child Protection in Ukraine” in 11 – 13 June, 2018 in Dnipro city for 80 representatives from 9 pilot regions.
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International Children’s Day in Moldova
CCPA/OFFS + SSP Moldova was celebrating the International Children’s Day.
Mini-Champions League Festival in Mostar
Open Fun Football Schools celebrate the Mini-Champions League Festival in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina
Revolutionens drømme lever blandt Tunesiens unge
I starten af maj tog jeg til Tunesien for at snakke med nogle af CCPA’s frivillige fodboldtrænere. Vi snakkede om hvad de laver som frivillige, og hvorfor de gør det. Svaret var klart: Hvis revolutionsdrømmene fra det Arabiske Forår skal implementeres i fremtidens Tunesien, er det børnene man skal have fat i. Og de kan nås gennem sporten.
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Thousands of women at Victory Race in Rabat
Thousands of women at the Victory Race in Rabat raise the slogan “All in order to support Morocco’s bid for the FIFA World Cup 2026”
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16 countries working together in Copenhagen
On March 19-21 Cross Cultures was hosting an International Council for our international partners in Copenhagen. 16 countries from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Balkan, and the MENA-region were represented at the meeting. In dialogue with donors and board members the international group used the three days meeting to develop a new strategic plan for Cross Cultures 2018-2021.
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Multiethnic Youth Camp
Cross Cultures’ local partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Association Open Fun Football Schools, with support of the USA Embassy in BH, has started a multiethnic youth camp in Stolac, BH.
Four more years in MENA
In January CCPA kick started the new partnership in Morocco by joining the annual Sport for All Caravan. The partnership is sponsored by DAPP.
International Council in Copenhagen
On March 19-21 CCPA partners from fifteen countries will visit Copenhagen for a strategic meeting about the future of the projects.
EU grant four year program in Ukraine to FFU, AUFCR, streetfootballworld and CCPA
CCPA launches a new programme in Ukraine to support child protection, social integration and reconciliation in Ukraine. The project is funded by EU
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Playing for common future
Thank you for being with us in this world. We found love and cooperation and everything is beautiful. Thanks from the depth.
…. So were the words posted on our facebook wall only few hours after we closed a four-day seminar for 30 youth leaders in Jordan.
Open Fun Football Schools – uniting people through football
UEFA’s social responsibility partner, the Denmark-based Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) has been running successful Open Fun Football Schools across Europe – using football to promote peace and social cohesion.
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Growing participation in girls football
From 1998 – 2016 over 350,000 girls have participated in Open Fun Football School activities. Further 11,000 females have been trained on our seminars of 3-5 days duration and a total of 28,000 females have volunteered our activities as leaders or coaches.
CCPA and the Popularisation of Women’s Football in the Balkans
“At that time in Bosnia, women’s football was almost non-existent. The men were always given the priority to play on the pitches that hadn’t been ruined during the war, and the last thing girls’ parents were thinking was to let their daughters go and play football.”
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Open Fun Football Schools: Ukraine
This year 2016 Open Fun Football Schools implemented by the Football Federation of Ukraine gained new strength. FFU Social Projects “Open Fun Football Schools” and “Play Away, Play Everywhere” significantly expanded network of grassroots volunteers and in a single season covered 56 districts in each region of Ukraine.
CCPA: Macedonia celebrates International Teachers Day
” International Teachers Day”- 05 Oct, Open Fun Football Schools Macedonia in the sports hall in Avtokomanda organized football tournament- sport event for 60 students from schools with special needs from 4 educational institutions where students attend classes.
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CCPA helps the Asylum League with a legendary kick-off at 1st Round
The Asylum Football league for Asylum Seekers in Denmark finally kicked off on September 5th and 6th with four legendary games between the best players Zealand had to offer amongst the refugee camps in the small Danish island; which had amongst others two Danish lower-league players and retired footballers from the Iranian and Iraqi football system.
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CCPA OFFS Sarajevo
The last week of August begins, the beginning of a school year in Bosnia, but OFFS activities do not stop.
After the completion of education and participation of leaders and coaches in Seminar organized by office Sarajevo in Tesli?, and in two regional seminars in Kosovo and Srbija, schools have started in Bosnia and Herzegovina . National Seminar in Teslic is organized according to agreed seminar plan. Next to the successful theoretical and practical Seminar segments, we also implemented workshops that brought new ideas and initiatives. Leaders and coaches from BH that participated Regional seminars also actively participated seminar agendas.
OPERATION DAGSVÆRK: IYN delegation reflects on Lyon festival
The Iraqi team consisting of a youth and delegation leader each with three participants went to Lyon, France and participated in the Street Football World festival between 28th of June till July 7th 2016.
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OFFS – Seminar for leaders and coaches in Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Open Fun Football Schools season 2016 in Balkan , started officially with the first Seminar for leaders and coaches , held in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from July 29nd to 31st.
Participants of the Seminar were leaders and coaches from 15 local communities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with five instructors and office staff. There was just over hundred participants, in beautiful setting of Banja Vrucica, where new ideas, fresh energy through a very welcomed new format of Seminar – were plenty.
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CCPA Mini Champions – Bosnia and Herzegovina
May 28th, Open Fun Football Schools Mini Champions event took place in Bihac, where 450 boys and girls gathered in…
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Open Fun Football Schools – Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
May 28th Mini Champions league will take it’s 6th edition In Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 29, 30 31 May and…
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Iraqi widows go independent after Danish entrepreneurial projects
Two widows have broken out of the entrepreneurial projects created by the Danish NGO, CCPA & the Iraqi Youth Network,…
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Danish NGO conducts festival in Babylon after devastating attack
The Danish NGO, CCPA conducts a youth festival in Babylon, not far from the devastating terror attack on a football…
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MAGLAJ & HELSINGOR students together at Open Fun Football activities
Cross Cultures, together with it’s Sarajevo branch office, organized a one day visit to the city of Maglaj, for the…
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DEMENA: Tunisia project gets kick started for 2016
This February, the first instructor seminar was kicked off in Monastir. At the seminar, 20 youths from all over Tunisia;…
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OPERATION DAGSVÆRK:116 New Associations in Iraq
The Iraqi Youth Network has established 25 social associations, 32 associations within the refugee camps and 59 sports associations in…
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OPERATION DAGSVÆRK: Danish Consultant lectures in Strategy Seminar for the Iraqi Youth Network
In the third seminar held for the Iraqi Youth Network, the guest of honor was Henning Kurland, who lectured in…
Ukrainian OFFS workshop in Illichivsk
Ukrainian OFFS workshop was held from August 19 until August 21 in the City of Illichivsk under the authority of…
“Open Fun Football Schools” in Ukraine is in the spotlight again
In mid-September, the new season of the national project "Open Fun Football Schools" will start in Ukraine. It will include…
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OPERATION DAGSVÆRK:SIDA: National Team Calls Up 5 Players from Al-Salam Football School
SIDA: National Team Calls Up 5 Players from Al-Salam Football School As a part of an official cooperation between the…
SEMINARS FOR LEADERS AND COACHES, BOSNA -HERZEGOVINA,JULI 2015
Celebrating the 18th year of implementation of the Open Fun Football Schools project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have offi…
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CCPA/OFFS Leaders and Coaches seminars Moldova 2015
In the Technical Center of Moldovan National Teams, in Vadul lui Voda held leaders and coaches seminars in period of…
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OPERATION DAGSVÆRK: Two soldiers, an Arab and a Kurd, united through IYN after 21 years
The President of the Iraqi Youth Network and Administrational Director of Al-Salam Football School, Jamal Luaibi, saw a long lost…