{"id":26116679,"date":"2026-06-05T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/sport-as-a-bridge-to-inclusion-metadrasi-at-the-panathenea-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:34:00","slug":"sport-as-a-bridge-to-inclusion-metadrasi-at-the-panathenea-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/sport-as-a-bridge-to-inclusion-metadrasi-at-the-panathenea-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport as a Bridge to Inclusion: METAdrasi at the Panathenea Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26116676\" src=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAdrasi_Panathenea.webp\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" width=\"1183\" height=\"753\" title=\"Metadrasi -\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAdrasi_Panathenea-1280x815.webp 1280w, https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAdrasi_Panathenea-980x624.webp 980w, https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAdrasi_Panathenea-480x306.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/>The side event of the Panathenea Festival, \u201cSports as a Tool for Inclusion,\u201d in which METAdrasi participated, featured a particularly lively and meaningful discussion.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the conversation was the power of sport as a tool for inclusion, connection, and psychosocial empowerment for children and young people.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the experience of \u201cTogether in Sport \u2013 Phase II,\u201d METAdrasi\u2019s representative highlighted the importance of giving refugee children opportunities to go beyond camps and accommodation facilities, take part in sports activities, play, cooperate, and build relationships with children from the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Through \u201cTogether in Sport \u2013 Phase II,\u201d implemented by METAdrasi in cooperation with the Hellenic Olympic Committee, sport becomes a bridge for communication, trust, and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Because when children play together, they get to know each other better. And when they get to know each other better, more open, stronger, and inclusive communities are built.<br \/>\nWe warmly thank Investing For Purpose for the excellent organization and for the invitation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201cTogether in Sport \u2013 Phase II\u201d is implemented by METAdrasi (project coordinator), the Hellenic Olympic Committee, and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) supports with coordination and co-funding. The project is also co-funded by the AMIF (2021-2027).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The side event of the Panathenea Festival, \u201cSports as a Tool for Inclusion,\u201d in which METAdrasi participated, featured a particularly lively and meaningful discussion. At the heart of the conversation was the power of sport as a tool for inclusion, connection, and psychosocial empowerment for children and young people. Drawing on the experience of \u201cTogether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26116677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26116679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26116679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26116680,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116679\/revisions\/26116680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26116677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26116679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26116679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26116679"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26116679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}