Sport Activities For IdEal fuTURE !

What I wanted to achieve with this project was that the students were able to get out of what is called their "comfort zone" trying to overcome their mental boundaries by doing activities that in ...

What I wanted to achieve with this project was that the students were able to get out of what is called their "comfort zone" trying to overcome their mental boundaries by doing activities that in their daily life they would not do. Furthermore, the project was based on the link between sport and disability and therefore thy would have put together a category they already know as sport with something unknown. Feelings like adrenaline, fear, desire for discovery and to get involved in beautiful experiences were our main goals.

In Italy, the school recreated games in which the kids imagined and experienced what it meant to practice a sport and not be able-bodied. Through games such as baskin, sitting volleyball and toreball, all the students learnt that disability could be overcome if there were the external conditions to do so. Furthermore, in our case the disability was linguistic. Through the orienteering of Portofino, the boys divided into mixed groups of different nationalities with the use of the English language oriented themselves through the streets of the city. In Spain, various activities were proposed whose theme was the link between outdoor sports and disability. We did activities such as blinded trekking, visited Pamplona and orienteering, visited the Lumbier Canyon and surfed in the city of Donosti. In Turkey, the students attended a laboratory focused on calculating the he CO2 emissions of each boy based on habits and lifestyle through the use of a dedicated app. Then, the students created Power Point on the theme of "obesity prevention" in correlation with "grassroot sports". Many activities were carried out outdoors: visiting sports centers where they practised many different activities: football, volleyball, tennis and zumba.

At the end of this experience the students spent time together, played games, knew each others better and they had fun together taking advantage of the beauties of our territories. The Spanish group created a blog of this experience, from their departure in Spain to the final mobilty to Turkey; the Italian ones created a Instagram page called SAFETURE where the students, together with the teachers could post, write and exchange pictures, videos to share. Many of the students became friends and we think that the most important result of this experience was creating friendships all around the world.