After the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila (Italy). Inter Campus implemented football activities with the children living in the tent camps and moreover some specific Summer Camps, continued until the year 2014. Inter Campus official opening in Italy is held in 2011, inaugurating the first program in Milan together with Ceas – Social Center of Solidarity Onlus, in collaboration with the Fondazione Casa della Carità (House of Charity Foundation), chaired by Don Virginio Colmegna.
Since 2012 Inter Campus works together with Maria Letizia Verga Centre, within the Oncohaematology Department of Pediatric Hospital in Monza (Italy), with initiatives aimed to highlight the important significance of Sport in the recovery from childhood leukemia and lymphomas. The “better healing through Games” program involves girls and boys recovering from leukemia through playing sessions on the field. Each activity is planned by integrating the skills both of Inter Campus and of the medical staff, and by creating a specific formula for young participants.
Since 2017 Inter Campus participates in the “Sport Therapy” program, a project also born in collaboration with the Maria Letizia Verga Committee and the University of Milan Bicocca, plans weekly training sessions with children and young people since their first hospitalization. The activities are held inside the gym, in the the day-hospital rooms, inside the haematology department, even in the isolation rooms of the “bone marrow transplant centre”. The sport path is arranged alongside the therapeutic one, in order to counteract the side-effects of medical treatments, so helping the physical and psycho-social recovery of young patients
Since 2018 Inter Campus collaborates with the “WeYolk” Association in two types of activities: the first one is held all the year round in the Torpignattara (suburb of Rome) schools where our partner operates in favour of girls and boys coming from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Eastern Europe, South America. The second activity, which is held just in the summer-time, implements a one-week Camp run by Inter Campus coaches also offering training courses for local operators with whom we remain in constant contact. The design of every playground involves the Department and the associations represented on the Permanent Disability Roundtable. Inter Campus, which is committed to ensuring that children with disabilities also have the right to play, is part of this important project and is pleased to have brought its international experience to its city by participating in the initiatives organized during the openings of Milan’s nine inclusive parks, which concluded in 2023.
From 2019 to 2023 Inter Campus has worked together with the “L’abilità Onlus”, through a field activity for girls and boys with different intellectual disabilities, capable enough to participate in the game activities prepared by our technical staff together with the Milan pedagogists’ Association members
In 2020 Inter Campus – together with the Inter Youth Sector coaches and with the CSI (Italian Sport Centre) educators- took part in the #EstatePopolare (people’s summer) Project, conceived by the Milan Municipality: a “widespread summer center” moving and working -for the first time- directly where people live, in the courtyards of Social Housings owned by MM and Aler (Public bodies) in the southern suburbs of Milan.
In 2021 and 2022 Inter Campus joined the “Show Racism the Red Card” initiative, promoted and co-financed by the European Union, through the EFDN network, with the aim of fighting any form of discrimination and enhancing diversity through educational paths in schools as well as trainings on the fields.
The campaign was aimed at tackling discrimination in football, by promoting the positive values of sports.
