Badminton for All - European Network for the Promotion of Inclusive Badminton

The Project has been executed in different phases and programmed actions that offer joint participation in training and badminton competitions for people with and without disabilities, in order to achieve real and effective inclusion in the practice of this sport. In its development, the 10 entities (coordinating entity + partner entities) have been involved, becoming involved in the activities in accordance with their profile and skills. In the final phase of the project, a new entity interested in continuing the Project in the coming years has been incorporated.Throughout the three-year duration of the Project, experiences of and those to improve inclusion have been shared, with more than 10,000 participants in inclusion activities through multiplying knowledge events designed in their different types to cover all the possibilities and also for the intervention in seminars, conferences and training courses at local, regional, national and international level.The multiplier events have been key actions to experience and explain the necessary adaptations to achieve an efficient inclusive badminton model, and they have been executed by a network of clubs and entities that have been the organizers and that will ensure, without a doubt, the continuity of the purposes of the project in the future. This is made possible by the participation data, collected in the statistics, which show convincing figures on the possibilities of extending the project not only to other European countries, but also worldwide.In order to promote and facilitate specialized training in inclusive badminton, a text has been prepared aimed at training physical education technicians and teachers, club and entity managers, people who collaborate as volunteers and also for referees who They participate in inclusive competitions, which are the professional figures necessary for a wide and correct implementation of the inclusive model. Said Text has been published under the title of “Inclusive Badminton Training Manual - B4ALL Project” and is available in English and Spanish.As scheduled, in the last phase of the project, the "online training platform" has been made accessible in five languages ​​(English, Spanish, French, Italian and Finnish) and will be available in the coming years, supported by the federations. badminton project partners. This facilitates continuity in training and the use of the platform by interested people from the clubs of European entities.The project in its third phase of “dissemination” has been affected by Covid19, forcing the suspension of many activities and not allowing new events to be scheduled. The difficulties have been greater for people with disabilities, making it difficult for them to participate in the events. However, it was finally possible to carry out 53 events during 2020 and in 2021 during the months in which the project was extended until May.Looking ahead, it is expected that the impact of the project will extend to others in the European Union and to countries on other continents. In this sense, it is important to point out that the “Badminton World Federation -WBF” will participate in some of the meetings and collaborate in the diffusion. The key to these actions are the initiatives of the clubs to make their activities inclusive, the badminton federations to incorporate the inclusive model into their regulations and the official institutions to support the inclusive model, thus applying the EU strategies for equality. gender and disability issues.