Sports for All Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sports for All

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

According to the EC communication “A renewed open method of coordination to address youth challenges and opportunities”, “Europe’s future depends on its youth. Yet, life chances of many young people are blighted”. This is even truer for young disabled people which are caught in a vicious circle, marked by lower education levels, unemployment, and subsequently, further exclusion from society. Indeed, youngsters with disabilities are confronted with regular discrimination and barriers in different contexts: according to Eurostat, in 2011, the proportion of people aged 18-24 in the EU who left the education and training system with a lower secondary education level at most, was of around 25% among disabled people, compared with 12.4 % among those without difficulty, while the Europe 2020 strategy calls for efforts to reduce this general figure to less than 10 % by 2020. Therefore, the project aims at creating an adapted non-formal learning environment for disabled youngsters, focusing on allowing their integration in sports activities. In fact, the access to sport is an important component of an inclusive society as it helps to build team spirit and to strengthen ties between youngsters. The project focused on building the capacities of youth workers to allow them to acquire the necessary competences to integrate disabled youngsters in sport youth activities. The project aims at:*Increasing the participation of disabled youngsters in sports activities and generating spillover effects to increase their participation in other informal learning activities;*Increasing the active involvement of disabled youngsters in social community life, encouraging them to become active citizens; *Improving the social competences of disabled youngsters, therefore increasing their motivation for learning, thus their education level;*Setting up good practices to be implemented in formal learning as well;*Raising awareness on the added value for the whole society to integrate disabled people. This was done by:(1) Carrying out a baseline assessment of the current situation as far as the involvement of disabled youngsters in sports activities is concerned in selected EU countries;(2) Carrying out a study on the competences needed by youth workers to integrate disabled youngsters in sports activities;(3) Creating a training content which will be available online for all youth workers on how to involve disabled youngsters in sports activities;(4) Carrying out a dissemination campaign to encourage the take-up of the training and the implementation of activities involving youngsters with disabilities;(5) Creating peer-learning methods to allow newly involved stakeholders (4) having implemented to learn from each other’s experiences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77539 Eur

Project Coordinator

Club de Buceo Escafandra & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DO MONTIJO -Associação para a Formação Profissional e Desenvolvimento do Montijo
• Nem Adom Fel Alapitvany