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Consultant Incubation manager

Position: Incubator manager/self-employed individual

Country of affectation: Italy

Service Duration: 6 months

Estimated number of days : 80 days

Background: PLAY International is a secular and apolitical French NGO founded in 1999. Its main objective is to promote sport and play as tools to educate, include, and empower youth and children. Since establishment, PLAY International has deployed sports programs across more than 20 countries for the benefit of over one million children. Today, PLAY International has 7 structuring missions locally registered in France, Kosovo, Senegal, Burundi, the Comoros Islands, DCR and Rwanda, and promising perspectives to scale up at local and international levels. PLAY International uses innovative and participative sport methods to support inclusive and quality education and foster social inclusion.

Project Context

REPLAY (Refugees Play United) is a pilot project funded by the European Commission and led by PLAY International in partnership with Liberi Nantes and Sport and Citizenship. The project aims to facilitate access to sport for young refugees by supporting sports clubs in becoming inclusive and welcoming environments.

The first phase of the project focused on co-developing and testing educational tools to support refugee inclusion with Liberi Nantes’ training team.

The next phase (September 2025 – March 2026) will consist in incubating five sports clubs in Italy that have limited or no experience with refugee inclusion, to help them structure and implement inclusive practices.

The objective of this consultancy is to coordinate and lead the incubation of five selected sports clubs in Italy, supporting their transformation into inclusive environments for young refugees.

The consultant will implement a participatory methodology to guide each club through a learning and action process, deliver training and facilitate exchanges, and support the integration of REPLAY pedagogical tools. As this is a pilot project, the incubation methodology and tools are still under development, and the consultant is expected to actively contribute to their testing, adaptation, and improvement throughout the process.

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