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With these premises in mind, this chapter presents the European project “Social Inclusion through sport-based interventions” (DISCIPLINS 2018-1-ES01-KA203-050916) which addresses social inclusion through specific educational interventions based on sport within the framework of higher education and in cooperation with sports organisations. In its innovation strategy, it develops a common program of training experts through sports interventions aimed at university students interested in this field of intervention, as well as educators, social workers, young people, coaches and professionals working in organizations that deal with social inclusion and sport. Therefore, this project joins the efforts of those educational research projects that pursue the development of innovations with social significance. Below are the keys that have originated the aforementioned project and the particularities of this.

The binomial between sport and inclusion has been the object of scientific interest by researchers for several decades (Valderrama et al., 2015). However, in the scientific literature there is a whole debate about the potential of sport to achieve social inclusion. On the one hand, from a more critical point of view that questions the real effects of sports activity on inclusion, certain authors, such as Dagkas (2018), propose that there are still no empirical studies that confirm the real effect between effective social inclusion and sport. According to Dagkas (2018) there is not enough evidence on the ways in which sport and, more specifically, physical education, can contribute to social inclusion. According to Limón et al. (2020) this aspect is linked to the search for results derived from researches of an eminently quantitative or mixed nature to corroborate this relationship and effect, since the main source on which the studies are based are qualitative (Schaillée, Haudenhuyse & Bradt, 2019).