PLAY'IN TOGETHER

Background Play’In Together was a consortium-led project gathering 9 partners from all over Europe that all had a very high level of knowledge and competencies in the field of sport and a particular interest on the question of disability. Implemented between 2019-2022, the project banked on cooperative processes and activities to develop sports-based pedagogical content and tools promoting the inclusion of children with disabilities (aged 6 to 12) and the training of hundreds of teachers and educators. Objectives The global objective of the project was to accompany societies toward greater inclusion of all persons with disabilities thanks to the promotion of Olympic, Paralympic and European values in sport games; by (1) promoting a change in perspective towards disability amongst young European; (2) strengthening self-confidence of children with disabilities, offering them adapted activities; and (3) allowing all children, regardless of their situation, to participate together in the same sport games. Implementation Play’In Together was implemented through structured, informed, cyclic and collective processes: informed pedagogical were co-created and tailored to countries' contexts. Partners then trained educators/teachers or animators who then deployed it to thousands of children, including with disabilities. Further dissemination was ensured through Sports Events and a Dissemination Toolkit, as well as publication of the toolkits on PLAY international's media online library, freely accessible. Achievements The overall implementation was successful, with the collaborative creation of three pedagogical toolkits, comprising 17 sport game sessions in total. It also enabled the training of 972 education practitioners, including 62% women (120% achievement) and 11,968 children, including 50% girls (59% achievement) reached. The impact of the project were further levered through a widespread dissemination along with effective advocacy with Sports and Education institutions in targeted countries.