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Building United Society

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-TR01-KA205-073434
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 145,044 EUR

Building United Society

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Disability is a part of human life-condition. Potentially, almost everyone may be temporarily or permanently impaired at some point in life, and people who can survive to old age experience various disabilities in their daily body functions. Around the world, it is estimated that more than 650 million people have some forms of disability. Among them, 220 million are young, whose ages are between 15 and 24. In Europe, there are more than 80 million people suffer from disability and 23 million of them are young. In all societies, persons with disabilities (PWD) often face physical and societal barriers and their disability evokes negative perception and discrimination. As a result of negative stigma regarding their disability, PWD experience restricted mobility more beyond their disability and thus they have become passive and inactive within social life. Inevitably, PWD are excluded from education and employment as well as social life which constitutes a big social problem in all countries.This project aims to propose a partial solution to this crucial social problem; its aim is to promote social inclusion of PWD by means of inclusive sport activities. The focus of the project is on young PWD, whose ages are between 15 and 24, constitute ten percent of European young population. Regular and extensive sport activities (in any branch) can help reduce the negative stigma and discrimination associated with disability because it can transform the prejudice of community against yPWD by highlighting their various skills and promoting tolerance and respect within the society. However, there is an important obstacle for yPWD which prevents their participation to sportive activities. Except for limited specialized areas, almost none of the indoor or outdoor, public or private, sporting or recreational facilities can meet the special needs of yPWD. There are two main sources of barriers to participation of yPWD in sport activities: 1) There is no standards for equipment, programs, and staff, and 2) there is no information on indoor and outdoor, public and private, sporting and recreational facilities, activities, opportunities gained by sport, programmes, staff capacity, yPWD’s abilities and safety conditions.For yPWD, sportive activity is not an option, but a necessity for management of their restricted conditions. In addition to this scientific fact, it gets harder for PWD to participate in physical activity as they get older. Therefore, the importance of participating in sportive activities for young PWD is more pronounced relative to older PWD. Thus, early adaptation of yPWD to physically active life-style is the main focus of this innovative project and yPWD’s specific conditions and needs are given priority. To this end, there are two objectives in this project; the first one is to propose a practical, scientific and well-organised international certification system for standards which assess the suitability of sporting and recreational facilities for distinct types of disabilities (walking-mobility, seeing, speaking, hearing) with respect to equipment, programs and staff, and the second objective is to prepare information packages and construct an online platform.The problem of yPWD is not specific to a particular society or a country, it exists in all regions and countries. Instead of national level, this crucial and complicated problem requires transnational cooperation to reinforce networks and increase the joint capacity to deal with such a significant problem. Therefore, this project aims to develop a transnational strategic initiative which focus on the social inclusion of yPWD by means of inclusive sport activities and suggest a practical method and innovative approach to encourage yPWD to participate in sport activities along with fostering independence of yPWD and enhancing the awareness of society on being disable to reduce discrimination.

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