This summer, the partners of the Monitora project launched the "Stop Racism, not the Game!" campaign, which aims to encourage people to report, monitor and take effective action against racism. The campaign features video testimonials, social media posts, and challenges, and includes the MONITORA online training course, available in September, to further educate on countering racism in grassroots sports. Lunaria APS is the lead association of the Monitora project, which is supported by various European organisations, including ISCA, LIIKKUKAA, Stop Racism in Sport, UISP Aps, and United for Intercultural Action. Read below to find out more about the training tool.

Paola Egonu, Miriam Sylla, Imane Khelif: three faces, three Olympic champions, three symbols - despite themselves - of how much the glow of a gold medal is not able to banish the shadow of racism and discrimination.

The Erasmus + project Monitora, monitoring racism in sport, coordinated by Lunaria, was born two years ago for this very reason: to take a further step in protecting those who live in the world of sport from racism and discrimination, by involving operators, coaches, institutions and civil society organizations. Today the project gets to a new milestone in this direction: the training Monitoring Racism in Grassroots Sport is available online.

This summer's Olympics as well as the accumulated experience of the project's partner associations teach us that there is still much to be done in the fight against racism and discrimination in the world of sport. But, to generate real change, it is from grassroots sports that we need to start. For this reason, we have created a training module whose objective is to provide useful tools to monitor racism in one's own sports context and create a protocol against racism and discrimination.

The course is aimed at sports practitioners, coaches and trainers, and athletes. It is divided into five modules in which it addresses theoretical definitions, analyses exemplary case studies, and a final practical part proposes some experiences tested by the organizations themselves.

The training is on a free and interactive platform. It will be possible to take it at any time, without the need for registration.

To stop racism and not the game - citing the project's campaign of the same name - a small collective effort is needed: let's make the sports environment - one of those spaces where solid intergenerational social bonds are formed from a young age - a safe place by developing an anti-discriminatory and anti-racist sports culture that protects both athletes and the game itself.

Access the training tool here: https://emonitora.cronachediordinariorazzismo.org/ 

Find out more about the Monitoring Racism in Grassroots Sport training and the other trainings conducted as part of the Monitora project.