Inclusion and Disabilities In and Through Sport

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The IDI4Sport – Inclusion and Disabilities in and through sport – is a three-year sportive endeavour which aims to develop sport practice of children with disabilities with the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024 as a background heritage. It is designed to promote social inclusion, increase the participation of children with disabilities and to reduce the difficulties they encounter, creating inclusive environments that foster equity and equality. It targets teachers, sport trainers and children of primary and secondary schools. The partnership is composed by a diversity of actors: governmental organisations, National Olympic Committee, research centre, NGO’s from Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain and particular attention on Greece and Northern Macedonia working together. Peer-to-peer work will be encouraged between all partners and participants. The project will gather resources and data on the sport accessibility of children with disabilities in the partner countries in the form of an online report. Based on this, an adapted training pathway will be created for teachers, sport trainers and educational staff in a multiplicity of formal and non-formal universes: schools, sports clubs, associations. They will participate in the design and assessment of the training which will be adapted to national contexts and educational environments. It will allow them to discover and appropriate new pedagogical tools; improving their skills and competences. This digital training, open for public consultation, will be implemented with children in different educational and sport structures. During the experimentation, they will be sensibilized to the OG 2024’s marathon through a “relay race” in which they will run in kilometres the exact number of remaining days between the beginning of the project and the marathon. In line with the European Strategy for the right of people with disabilities 2021-2030, a label “Generation 2030” will be created to recognise and value the participants.