SITS - Social inclusion through sports is a project that offers opportunities for all individuals to socially interact through sports

The project will enable children, adults and seniors with fewer opportunities to participate in the activities no matter their social status. The consortium connects three different partners to learn from one another to ensure the best effect of the project. We have strategically selected our two partners in the projects. In establishing the consortium, we invited an Italian partner Ballafon Società Cooperativa Sociale, as the organization has extensive experience in working with groups of people with fewer opportunities, socially excluded. Ballafon deals with migrants on a daily basis and can provide a great insight of their needs and specifics regarding social inclusion (especially through sports). We want to transfer good practices to Slovenia and Croatia. Our Croatian partner is an expert in providing programmes for swimming literacy and can thus provide great good practices for establishing higher numbers of swimming literacy amongst people with fewer opportunities. The Croatian partner Open Water Swimming Club Primorje is involved due to his knowledge of swimming literacy. Swimming literacy is predisposed by economic status of families. Since our main target group are people with fewer opportunities, this club proves to be the perfect choice for this project. We believe that by providing people of all socio-economic statuses the opportunities to come together, to socialize in sports, we influence their mental and physical health, we provide them with socialization and address many issues of their everyday lives. We also feel that by carefully selecting the partners, we can put great emphasis on exchanging knowledge, experiences and good practices examples.