Begin an Educative Social Training

The project has faced the challenge of realizing a cultural change among young people, especially under 18, making them learn how to live together, including other disabled young people in their daily activities with normally. The project uses sport as a tool, in its various forms, to realize a series of activities to allow young people to know themselves and their own potential for growth with each other, understood the other as a young different from himself, able or disabled, starting from the understanding that each one in his diversity has no limits.To face this process, the project intervenes in the psychological perception of the inclusive problem by stages. It starts from an awareness process (1° approach – Awareness campaigns), supported by experts and animators, allowing the group to get to know each other and to start a first relationship if there has never been. Subsequently (2° in-depth analysis - LABS) the group went into an experiential environment that allows young people to elaborate on the inclusive problem from two points of view: physical and psychological. In this way, with the support of experts and animators, the young’s have expressed his thoughts to the group and elaborated the perplexities, proposes the solutions and shared them with the group by informal methodologies. In the third phase (3° practice - Tournaments), participants experienced the potential of the mixed group with disabilities and not as a teamwork. As anticipated by the proposal, the main purpose of the project has been to turn diversity into positivity, improving the value of respect for helping the young’s (as direct beneficiaries) and their circles - families, teachers, policy makers, community sport leaders - (as indirect beneficiaries) to break down prejudices and inner barriers, thus promoting a more proactive inclusion in social life as follows:1) It has been created an active network on the 3 partner territories involving local stakeholders that have organized public seminars focused on social and architectural obstacles with a priority action: the elimination of any barriers that prevent equal access to sport activities, thereby focusing the maximum inclusion. 2) Using sport as a cross-education tool, by importing the experience (best practice) of the Italian applicant, to create valid future adults who will become decision makers in the near future, the project has achieved the objectives with a structured set of activities for both abled and disabled students. It has been implemented a didactic phase which consists in awareness days and laboratories in schools and a practical phase where tournaments between schools have been realized.The Italian sport organization has promoted the project with the purpose to spread its valid methodology and experience creating a local network, organizing 1 event of awareness campaign, 1 lab and 1 tournament. To have a greater impact on its territory the leader has established an active cooperation with the Municipality of Ceccano. In Bulgaria, the ECIESC, has involved a wide network of schools and on suitable trainers that enriched this project with specific skills, has organized 5 events of awareness campaign 2 Labs and 1 tournament. In Spain, the Municipality of Vinalesa, has created a local network with 15 associations and 6 schools. Has organized 3 events of awareness campaign in the framework of key social community events, 1 Lab and 1 tournament.All these activities were accompanied by a transversal process of internal/external communication aimed at allowing local and European partnership (Local/European Network) to be consolidated over time, at producing audience development for strategic events and moments of the project with an “openness to all” approach, and the promotion/creation of new multipliers of the best practice (local associations and schools participating in local networks).