ENGAGE · CONNECT · EMPOWER
A European hub of sport and cultural services for young people.
ECOS creates opportunities for minors and young adults through sport and cultural workshops, European mobility and cooperation projects. We work with services, schools, professionals, European organisations and businesses to turn concrete activities into paths of growth, connection and autonomy.
The three ECOS pillars
ENGAGE · CONNECT · EMPOWER
We involve young people in meaningful activities, connect them with people, services and opportunities, and support them towards greater awareness, skills and autonomy.
Focus areas
The contexts where we focus our work.
Our activities respond to specific needs and contexts, in collaboration with services, schools and professionals.
- Mental health
- Young offenders
- Unaccompanied foreign minors
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Young people facing hardship
- Schools
Our networks
A European network of expertise and organisations.
ECOS is part of international networks that let us share practices, build new collaborations and contribute to the European debate on sport, inclusion and mental health.
EWOS
European Week of Sport: a European network promoting sport, participation and active lifestyles.
Visit the EWOSEASMH
A European network dedicated to mental health and to sharing knowledge, practices and collaborations.
Visit the EASMHWork with ECOS
If you represent an organisation interested in connecting with our European network, tell us about yourselves.
Contact usEvents & social communication
Opening the dialogue on youth hardship.
We run events and social communication initiatives to fight stigma, create opportunities to meet, and bring mental health, inclusion and youth hardship into the public conversation through sport and film.
Sport
Sport as a space for meeting and inclusion
- Dream World Cup
- Dream Euro Cup
- Nazionale Crazy for Football
- Ovidio Running
Film
Film to tell, understand and shift perspective
- Cinemind
- Idea Cinema Lab
- The Mad Men Coach