LETS - Learning and Engagement Through Skiing

Learning and Engagement Through Skiing (LETS) is a 15-month Smal Scale Cooperation Partnership Project in the field of sports, that aims to develop, test, and implement a set of innovative training modules for the inclusion of 18-25 years old physically disabled skiers and 12-15 years old advanced skiers. We will have three mobilities. In the first one, three trainers from all partners will come together to create two training models and in the later mobilities, these models will impact two different groups of participants. The project is born after the numerous challenges current in the involved countries and organizations: lack of Adapted Physical Education VET Courses; lack of motivation of 12-18 years old young people to continue practicing sports in the long run; lack of opportunities to explore good practices from other clubs from other countries. The project involves a complimentary to each other organizations with relevant experience and capacity: Kayseri Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports (Turkey), L'Orma (Italy), and Champions Factory (Bulgaria), as collaboratively we would like to reach the following objectives: to build up our capacity to work with two crucial target groups (12-18yo advances skiers and 18-25yo disabled skiers) through international staff and athletes mobilities; to promote inclusion in sports; to develop innovative educational modules, test and implement them in our work; to develop long term cooperation between the newcomer and experienced organizations. We foresee developing all outcomes (training models) in digital format, so they would be available for download by anyone working in the field. Thus, we believe through this project we will reach a long-term impact on multiple levels: participants, participating organizations, the skiing development in Europe, as well as local and national governing bodies and their decision-making considered in the needs of regular athletes and disabled athletes.