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Latest News & Project Activities
Promotional video of “My Best Sports Day” events
Promotional video of all “My Best Sports” events that were organized in all partner countries: Slovenia, Portugal, Italy, Sweden and Turkey. The events were a great success, children with special needs were introduced to traditional European games, they were motivated to be more physically active and through the promotion of this games we helped preserve …
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3rd Partners Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey
On the 3rd Partner’ Meeting, partners discussed about the details of the developed traditional games and sports. We answered all the outstanding issues that the partners had after the project pilot training successful implementation. Partner ‘ consortium decided about: the additional descriptions of adjustments of the games; the implementation of pilot training in all partner …
Pilot test in Maribor, Slovenia
On the 12.4.2019 the Slovenian Pilot for My Best Sports Day was organized with the cooperation of primary school Gustava Šiliha Maribor. Children tried out selected national traditional european games: Corner Ball (Sweden) Rotten Egg (Slovenia) Catch the handkerchief (Turkey) Boccia (Portugal) Ruzzola (Italy)
Pilot in Porto, Portugal
On 4/4/2019, MEDesTU Association, in collaboration with the School4all team of the Municipality of Ponte de Lima (Portugal), with the support of the School Group among other partners and individuals, implemented the pilot project My Best Sports Day – More Then Sport project, providing a lively morning of sports and games for children with special …
Pilot in Margherita di Savoia
Pilot Test of the My Best Sports Day – Margherita di Savoia/Trinitapoli (Italy) It was held on 01/03/2019 on a magnificent day of sunshine and great collective participation. MSV Basket brought in the field the realization of this event that recalled traditional games of the past but importing 5 of them from the respective European …
2nd Partners Meeting in Porto Portugal
On the second partner meeting in Porto, project partner IAAD from Turkey prepared survey reseach results, prepared by Zdenka Wltavsky from TREND PRIMA (coordinator). Partners also presented good practices, expertise and concepts in the field of motivation the physical activeness of children with special needs. We made a selection of presented good practices and here …
Kick off Partners Meeting in Umea Sweden
All present partner organisations presented the games from their countrie on the kick off meeting. Partners choose the games based on availability of material for games, expenses for material, individual / group games, physical disability and mental disability. We chose 8 games and each partner can coose which 4 or more they want to implement …
Start of the Project My Best Sports Day
The project idea of My Best Sposts Day is too increase the level of physical activities of children with special needs in primary schools and inspire them with traditional European sports & games. Children with special needs often could not engage in many sports due to physical limitations. Professional experts in project partner s countries …
INCREASING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The project idea is to promote national traditional games and sports by increasing the level of physical activity of children with special needs.
Emphasizing the importance of physical activity during childhood builds the foundation for your children to grow up to be healthy adults. We are going to contribute in increasing the physical activity of children with disabilities by including them in sports and games.
TRADITIONAL SPORTS AND GAMES
Traditional sports and games can form the backbone of a community, and further community spirit, bring peoples together and instill a sense of pride. In this project we are going to present different national games and sports from Slovenia, Sweden, Italy, Portugal and Turkey. Cultural heritage is very important and through this project we are going to promote the national games from each country on an international level.
PROMOTING INCLUSION AND SPORT
Inclusion does not just happen by itself; it needs to be proactively driven by all stakeholders in sports!
Organisations dealing with disability-sports and para-sports may use the concept of inclusion to develop and sustain some of their sports, or to enrich participation; e.g. in sports. This project is going to include all children, we are going to include everyone in the participation in national games.