SIQ+ Sport - Integration - Qualification

The SIQ+ project aims to use the socially integrative potential of sport in its entire range (from low-threshold leisure activities to club sport and competitive sport) and thus to expand the integration offer by an essential element.

The Caritas project SIQ+ (Sport Integration Qualification +) sees itself as a socio-pedagogical project (direct work with the target group) and a platform for sport integration (public relations, networking and educational work). It aims to use the socially integrative potential of sport in its entire range (from low-threshold recreational activities to club sport), thus adding an essential element to the integration offer.

Target groups

Third-country nationals, Convention refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, EU citizens and Austrians with a migration background between 6 and 21 years of age.

SIQ+ offer

• GRAgustl (learning and sports programme for compulsory school pupils in Graz in August, organised in cooperation with the Caritas Learning Cafés). All places for 2022 are already taken.
• Football and Courage (range of offers for SIQ+ partner clubs on empowerment and intercultural sensitisation).
• Range of offers to increase the integration of girls and women in and through sport (specific girls' modules, girls' football tournaments, etc.).
• Matchday+: Friendly matches between a SIQ+ team and a team of a cooperation partner (schools, youth centres, etc.) with accompanying empowerment workshops.
• Sport and labour market integrative offer for young boys: Football, running and fitness for young boys with extensive labour market integrative support services
• Walk and Talk: coached district walks for women (more information in the flyer in the downloads)
• Women's swimming+: swimming + empowerment + sports and German language course for the children of the participating women (more information in the flyer at the downloads)