BeInclusiveWaterPolo

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"People with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health challenges are still subject of wide discrimination and impossibility to be properly included in the society. Sport is one of the most powerful tools that can support the inclusion process and in a gentle way present an opportunity for the mentioned target group to feel accepted and part of a group. #BeInclusiveWaterPolo project aims to analyse the link between sport and inclusion in an innovative and different way – by ensuring international participation in sport activities of persons with intellectual disability and/or mental health challenges and as well – to adapt a new sport (water polo) to the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities, which will enrich the portfolio of possible sport activities in which they can join. Through the project activities, we aim to empower persons with intellectual disability and/or mental health challenges to: • Discover the power of sport as an inclusion mechanism through personal experience; • Co-create together with the partners experts a good practices tool-kit of UnifiedWaterPolo for persons with intellectual disability and/or mental health challenges; • Take part in an international sport event #BeInclusiveWaterPolo; • Implement local training sessions with the persons with intellectual disability and/or mental health challenges in order to ensure snowfall effect; • Ensure good practices transfer between project partners. The following Outputs will be developed to achieve the project aims mentioned above: * Good practices toolkit edition #BeInclusiveWaterPolo; * Empowered sport experts and organizations that will continue utilizing the tools that #BeInclusiveWaterPolo will develop in the project framework and onwards. * Delivered international sport event #BeInclusiveWaterPolo that will gather persons with intellectual disabilities from Bulgaria and Croatia after set of national trainings sessions in each country; "