Sport, discrimination and integration. Sport as a vehicle of social inclusion and participation

Within the project, a public forum “Dinamo to smo mi” was held. It collected a large number of interested participants. Its goal was to present actual problems of fans and a member community of GNK Dinamo Zagreb and to initiate a constructive dialogue about history, today and the future of Dinamo and its fans. The main figures of the presentation were Juraj Čošić, mag. cin., as a member of the association “Dinamo to smo mi”, Ivan Zečević, mag. soc., as a member of the Klub navijača Bad Blue Boys, dr. sc. Tibor Komar, docent on the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and dr. sc. Goran Pavel Šantek, a professor on the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the main organizer of the public forum.

Project leader, dr. sc. Goran Pavel Šantek, on Monday, 18th of March 2019 has participated in a public forum organized by the association of fans “Dinamo – that is us” with prominent home and foreign experts – Mike Farnan, former CEO of Manchester United, Frederik Ekström from AIK Stockholm and dr. sc. Tomislav Globan from Faculty of Economics and Bussines in Zagreb”.

Večernji list, Croatian daily news journal has reported: “Prof. dr. sc. Goran Pavel Šantek, who is teaching Anthropology of Sports on Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences and an author of the book “Dinamo, that is us”, has cautioned that future Management of the club has to, parallelly, build up a lost identity of the club. “You can make the prettiest stadium and provide comfort and I agree with it, but more important is to make fans identify themselves with the club again. They have to bare emotion that they belong to it, otherways it will also be empty except the big European matches where one comes to see adversary” – Šantek concluded. More on the link.

Public forum “Dinamo – to smo mi!” connected with activities of science project “Sport, discrimination and integration. Sport as a vehicle of social inclusion and participation” will be held on Tuesday, 26th of March 2019, at 18:30 hours in Lecture hall 1 of Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

Presentation of the project “Sport, discrimination and integration. Sport as a Vehicle of Social Inclusion and Participation” will be held on Tuesday, 26th of March 2019, at 18:00 hours in Lecture hall 1 of Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

On 1st of January 2019 the project “Sport, discrimination and integration. Sport as a vehicle of social inclusion and participation (INTEGRA), funded by the Croatian Science Foundation with an estimated duration of 4 years, has started.