NUMBER 03 • APRIL 2016

Paper about the IRIS Project presented at the 4th Congress The Digital Divide Professor Raul Eirín presented a paper entitled "The IRIS Project" at the IV Congreso A Fenda Dixital (4th Congress The Digital Divide).The Congress held on 7, 8 and 9 April 2016 in the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela.More information on the congress web site:

https://fendadixital.wordpress.com

The IRIS Project in a local spanish TV (V Television) The news team of V Television (a local spanish TV), interview with Professor Raul Eirín, member of the Stellae Group, in the report entitled ¿Por qué hay batallas campales en el fútbol? ("Why is there pitched battles in football?"), for comment aspects related to the prevention of violence in grassroots sport, in his condition of researcher at the IRIS Project.The report was issued in V Television on Monday April 18. It can be seen (in spanish) at the following link (the interview with Raul Eirín starts at one minute and twenty seven seconds):

http://bcove.me/fl216n90

An article about IRIS published on the Finnish paper Keskisuomalainen

An article on IRIS was published in Keskisuomalainen (the main newspaper in central Finland) on March 26th, 2016, The title of the article, in english, is "Calling names, calling someone a faggot, dismissing and harassing".The text of the subtitle says:"Sport: An EU-funded anti-discrimination project IRIS enters schools and sport clubs in central Finland in the spring".Prof. Marja Kokkonen, a team member at the University of Jyväskylä involved in the IRIS Project, appears in the photograph illustrating the article.

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IRIS and the Spring Water Polo Festival 2016 (Patras)The Regional Center of Vocational Training and Life Long Learning in Achaia, Region of Western Greece, pro-moted the IRIS Project during the 1st Spring Water Polo Festival 2016, held on swimming sport center “PEPANOS” in Patras from 26 to 28 April 2016, organized by the Sailing Association of Patras.

the consequences of ra-cism, discrimination and violence in grassroots sport, proposed me-asures and practices that can be applied in order to prevent these phe-nomena.The coaches and the Physical Education Tea-chers showed great interest and sensitivity to the subject of the project.

During the 1st Spring Water Polo Festival 2016, the IRIS Project team informed the coaches and the Physical Education Te-achers on the im- plementation of the pro-ject and the educational platform, the educational materials and the inn-ovative tools developed through the project. They discussed about