PINBALL

03/05/2024

Within the PINBALL framework, in Italy, Unimore - Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and ForModena formazione Modena organized an event on the fight against bullying and social disadvantage, in collaboration with professional (AC Reggiana 1919) and non-professional (Terre di Castello) sports associations, a high-school (Istituto Levi), local institutions (Vignola Municipality and local police) and associations (Aliante Cooperativa Sociale). The event was meant to use the magic of football to unite people against bullying and all forms of discrimination.
In the first part of the morning, all school students (approximately, 1,400 students) took part in lab activities, where they had to produce an artistic work with their anti-bullying and discrimination message. After institutional speeches, a street tournament for over 100 players was organized and attended by all school students. Mixed teams were formed, including school students, local police, grassroots players from Reggiana, and players from Terre di Castello.
Signatures were collected among 768 participants, although the event was attended to by approximately double the number of participants (approximately 1,500).
The event received strong media attention, including an article in a local newspaper, interviews for regional radios, and for national (RAI) and regional (TRC) televisions.

31/10/2023

The PINBALL consortium is proud to announce that the PINBALL Methodology has been approved and it is about to be implemented within youth teams in Finland [Suomen Palloliitto], Portugal [Seleções de Portugal] and Greece [Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Οικογένεια], while it will be implemented in 2024 in Croatia [Hrvatski nogometni savez] and Switzerland [Swiss Football Association - SFV ASF]. Learn more about PINBALL on our website: https://pinballproject.eu/

11/07/2023

Welcome back to the first PINBALL Quiz! In this video, you’ll have the chance to learn the correct answer to the PINBALL quiz and find out if you won the tickets: make sure to watch the whole video to find out the names of the lucky winners! If you want to learn more about the bullying phenomenon in football, make sure to visit our website https://pinballproject.eu/ and read our Outputs!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WINNERS: If you are one of the lucky winners, please write a private message to the PINBALL page including your full name and surname and your E-mail address. Each winner will then be contacted during the summer by the respective Football Association about the modality with which the tickets will be delivered. Stay tuned for more quizzes!

29/06/2023

Welcome to the first PINBALL Quiz!

Here you’ll have the chance to win two tickets for a September game of your favorite National Football Association (among the Croatian, Finnish, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, and Swiss FAs) and learn more about the phenomenon of bullying. Here’s the quiz:

“Which of these scenarios can be considered a bullying episode?”
A - Being constantly teased by teammates for your looks
B - Always being isolated from your teammates
C - Being beaten by some older players, always waiting for you outside practice
D - All of the above

Participating is easy, just accurately follow these instructions:
- Follow the PINBALL page
- Like this post
- Post a comment below, including the following information:
1) Give your answer to the PINBALL quiz (A, B, C or D);
2) Write the FA for which you want to win the tickets (Croatian, Finnish, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, or Swiss FA).

If you wish, tag a friend who would love to participate!

You have time until July 9th, 2023, to participate. The winners will be randomly extracted and posted on this page by July 15th, 2023 – so come back to find out if you won!

*Please, note that this quiz is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook*

27/04/2023

We are proud to share the first PINBALL video: here players of the five PINBALL partner FAs (Finland, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, and Switzerland) will tell you about the bullying phenomenon in European youth football and will say something more about the PINBALL project.
What are you waiting for? Press play! 🎥

20/02/2023

To better analyse the problem of bullying in and outside the context of sport and to tailor specific solutions to tackle it, the PINBALL consortium conducted detailed research in Croatia, Finland, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland. A total of 1039 youth football coaches shared their perceptions of their players’ bullying experiences. The collected data suggest that, unfortunately, the bullying phenomenon is way more widespread than expected. On the other hand, the closeness between coaches and young players could be the key to effective intervention.
👉 Follow the next posts on this page to find out about the PINBALL intervention programme!

12/01/2023

❗️ News Update PINBALL January 2023 ❗️

The Pinball project is an Erasmus+ project in collaboration between the national football federations of Finland, Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland, as well as Unimore, ForModena, Friends and the UEFA foundation for children. The three-year long project started in July last year and intends to prevent bullying within children’s and adolescents' football teams.

During the first phase of the project, we started by mapping the partner countries existing activities and projects to promote a positive social climate within sports and football. The next step was to ask children and coaches in football teams from Finland, Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland about their experience of bullying. The analysis shows that a huge number of youth football players encountered bullying at least sometimes in their lives, either on the football field or outside of it. Specifically, according to 50% of the coaches, at least some of their players were victims of bullying within the football context.

Bullying is a relevant social issue in all of Europe, and it is widespread in many educational environments. Based on our survey, it is clear that the football context is not immune to this scourge, but it also emerges that football itself can be a ground for developing positive values to combat bullying. The next step in the project will be to start designing a method that will be piloted and eventually implemented in the partner countries existing structures.

👉 Take part of the full research report at:

Research study on bullying within football Training course for football coaches Guidelines Pinball Cup and national tournaments Download report…

22/11/2022

The PINBALL project already experienced its first Multiplier event in Reggio Emilia (Italy), where many high school students, along with the whole citizenship, were involved in the presentation of the app You-Pol, which allows to ask the police for help when experiencing or witnessing to any kind of violent behaviour, including bullying! Thanks to the collaboration of the Italian Football Club “AC Reggiana” and the University of Reggio Emilia (partner of the project), youngsters also had the chance to experience some football-based activities aimed at raising awareness on the issue of bullying! Don’t forget to check the project out on www.pinballproject.eu!

10/11/2022

It is with great pleasure that we introduce the project "PINBALL - Preventing bullying IN and through footBALL". 🥳

The PINBALL project is an Erasmus+ funded collaboration project between UEFA for Children, Unimore, ForModena, Friends and the national football federations of Portugal, Finland, Switzerland, Croatia and Greece. PINBALL intends to fight bullying within children’s and adolescents' football teams, and this is just its kick-off. In the next three years, we’ll update you on our work, activities, and progress.

👉 We are also happy to announce that the PINBALL webpage is now live @ www.pinballproject.eu

👉 Follow the website and the next posts on this page to find out more!