Social Responsibility – Project One Team

One Team Euroleague Basketball’s corporate social responsibility program, supported by Turkish Airlines as the One Team Founding Patron and with the collaboration of Special Olympics as Proud Partner, uses basketball to achieve real social impact in our communities

With an innovative model of interconnectedness across an entire continent, Euroleague Basketball and its clubs have developed a complete CSR program that brings together activities from each team in an integrated, impactful way, working under the theme of “community integration” Each participating club develops a specific One Team project tailored to its own community needs to benefit groups in danger of exclusion due to problems such as substance abuse and gender, physical or intellectual disability.

Since its founding in 2012 the One Team program has reached already directly and indirectly more then 19 000 participants through its various team projects.

Part of the One Team project in the season 2019/2020 was also Cedevita Olimpija. The club had already established cooperation with Special Education Centre Janez Levec Ljubljana, that is a special education school founded for pupils with intellectual disability and pupils with autistic spectrum disorders.

Cedevita Olimpija and pupils of Centre Janez Levec will be meeting on a weekly basis. Through basketball and basic basketball elements, both partners will try to shed a light on important life skills, in order to help students engage in social life. In accordance with the basic idea of the project, the purpose of the project in Ljubljana is to enable young people from Centre Janez Levec to achieve personal growth and develop personality traits, that will enable them to integrate into the community successfully.

Supporters of the One Team project are also club’s players and members of the coaching staff. The biggest supporter among the Dragons was certainly Edo Murić, who was the club’s first ambassador for the One Team project in the 2019/20 season. In the 2020/21 season, Alen Hodžić will take his place.