"In blind football,Everybody Wins"

Erasmus+ SportCollaborative PartnershipsID: 579627
EC Contribution
โ‚ฌ59,930
Consortium Size
4 orgs
โ–ถSummary

"In blind football, everybody wins" was a small collaborative annual partnership. The beneficiary organisation was Youthorama from Greece and the partners were Euro-net and Mundus from Italy and Spain respectively.There were three main mobility flows in each quarter of the year. First preparatory meeting was held in Greece April 2017, Mid evaluation meeting was taken place in Spain June 2017 and final evaluation event took place in Italy December 2017.In every mobility flow, sighted and totally blind participants joined the meetings.Major dissemination event was organised by participants from all partners, in Thessaloniki Mall, the major one in our City.Educational workshops in our schools with the use of our innovative mini blind football took place all over the Municipality and our area.What was not described in application stage but implemented additionally during the first months of 2017, was the design of a unique in global level, an innovative mini blind sound football, specially designed for blind and sighted children.We launched an awareness campaign, "Everybody Wins" for empathy and promoting Inclusion in all terms of our life, formal education/ non-formal/ informal learning.A dissemination event took place during Day of Europe in School for the Blind of Thessaloniki.At the end of the project, we started designing an upcoming global project, "A ball for all" donating these innovative sound footballs for blind children, to blind children and general Institutions. A wide variety of media coverage focus on our project, in local and international level as well. We published on project results' platform, a list of more than 20 newspapers/ TV coverage of the project/ disseminating videos of our consortium and we have received many invitations to present the project abroad. There were no expenses from the current project, the legal representative made speeched in Tokyo University and in 10th Peace and Sport International Forum in Monaco while the project's ball was presented first time in Qatar. Many famous sportpeople and politicians had a photo opportunity with the ball and its Erasmus+ logo on it, such as Xavi Hernandez of Barcelona, Didier Drogba of Chealsea, Prince Albert of Monaco and our Commissioner of Sports during 30 years Erasmus celebrations in European Parliament of Strasburg.

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