The Nobody Offside project is coordinated by the European Football for Development Network (EFDN) and executed together with its project partners the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF), Royal Dutch Football Association, Club Brugge Foundation, Fundación Real Betis Balompié, Romanian Football Federation (FRF).
European Football for Development Network (EFDN)
The EFDN consists of professional football clubs, leagues and FA’s who are committed to their communities and social responsibilities and have the passion to cooperate and engage on a European level.
The network aims to promote the power of football as a tool for social development and support the efforts of the network members in their initiatives to use football to reach out to various target groups in their communities. This creates a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing in order to develop a diversity of training methods that will directly benefit communities throughout Europe.
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European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF)
The mission of the EAFF is to include and support people with amputations or limb defects, increase their access to amputee football opportunities, and use football to improve their quality of life.
Established in 2015 federation is growing continually reaching 18 members in 2020. Establishing the Federation contributed to further dynamic development amputee football in Europe and spread football integration across the old continent. At present in Europe there are 1300 active amputee football players, including 150 juniors under 16 years old. Over 80 amputte football clubs enables players to play on a regular basis.
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Royal Dutch Football Association
The KNVB believes that football is for everyone. Even if you are missing (part of) a limb due to an illness, accident or congenital defect, you want to be able to play football. The KNVB and the Netherlands Amputee Football Foundation make this possible.
Amputee football is played by football players with an amputee and has the same characteristics as the regular form of football. Amputee football is played according to FIFA rules. Due to the amputation and the use of crutches, among other things, a few important rules have been adjusted.
Fully aware of its huge impact on society, Club Brugge wishes to offer a positive contribution to the community on a social level. An accessible and open Club is what Club Brugge’s board and staff are working towards, open and accessible to everyone, no matter their heritage, belief or social backgrounds, allowing everyone to apprise and enjoy Club Brugge. Because our Club, that is the largest and warmest football family of our country, all carrying a blue and black heart.
Club Brugge Foundation aims at maximum accessibility of Club Brugge, turning Club Brugge’s huge social exemplary role into concrete actions and a positive social contribution by using the impact of football on society.
Fundación Real Betis believe that football can be used as a tool to promote educational values, to contribute to the fight against marginalisation and social exclusion, as well as to promote healthy life habits among children and young people.
Every year, Fundación Real Betis supports more than 300 organisations that work in the social or environmental sector, mainly in Seville and Andalusia. Each Season, the Foundation addresses a long list of initiatives to continue their work to improve social, economic and environmental factors within the community, being aware that social responsibility is increasingly important in any type of organisation.
Romanian Football Federation (FRF)
The FRF is a non-profit organisation established in 1909. The mission of the FRF is to promote football all over the Romanian territory, to develop the football phenomenon in all its amplitude and to provide an organisational model for Romanian sports.
The Federation finds itself in the process of reforming and rebuilding the sports phenomenon at a national level, thus applying for the first time in Romania strategic management tools, answering the need to plan, step by step, all the necessary steps to fulfill the undertaken mission.
They enumerate values such as: love for football, integrity, cooperation and trust, autonomy and subsidiarity, good governance, development and performance, no to violence, no to racism & fair play and perseverance
