Sports Training for All

Call reference number: EAC/A03/2016

Programme title: Erasmus+ Sport 2017

Project Number: 590416-EPP-1-2017-1-BG-SPO-SCP

Title of the Proposal: Sports Training for All

Topic: Growing number of students with disabilities are being included in general education & participate in youthorganisations as well, resulting in more & more physical education teachers/trainers being faced with the realityof teaching these youth together with the rest of the children, without having the necessary knowledge how toorganise inclusive sports activities. This is at the core of ST4ALL project.For youth with disabilities integrated sports activities can by a key to community participation. Yet most of theorganized sports activities by youth organisations & schools are segregated services or are provided for groupsof people who enter community settings but who, as individuals, never become integrated into these settings.Sports participation helps develop a healthy self-concept, builds confidence, & improves the overall quality oflife. Sports also provide youth with disabilities with valuable social interactions.ST4ALL aims to enhance the training skills of sports trainers when working with youth with a spectrum ofdisabilities. Attention to both physical & psychological aspects of their involvement in sport activities & theirtherapeutic aspects will be explored. A core aspect will be to accommodate sports training to grassroot sportsthat support the development, both physically & behaviorally.During a 30-months duration ST4ALL will develop:- training courses for sports trainers (aligned with ECVET principles) that focus on grassroots sport activities inSE/inclusive schools/sports & youth organisations (train the trainer) & that will be evaluated/fine-tuned(multilingual) through pilots in partner countries, & useable (read: customised) for a variety of disabilities (a “onefor all approach” will not work);- a multilingual mobile app integrated through online informative community portal for trainers/teachers;- validate & approbate outcomes in BG, BE, TR, CR & AT with public & private organisations involved in sports& youth.