SAILING FOR PHYSICAL DISABLE PEOPLE

The project SAILING FOR PHYSICAL DISABLE PEOPLE (SAIL4PDP) is mostly focused on the E+SPORT specific objective:• promote voluntary activities in sport, together with social inclusion, equal opportunities and awareness of the importance of health-enhancing physical activity, through increased participation in, and equal access to sport for all.We remark three elements of the specific objective, appearing in the SAIL4PDD Project:• Social inclusion, as explained in the paragraph above, regarding inclusion of European citizens with physical disability in a nautical sport as sailing, apparently not available for specific disabilities, as people suffering a spinal cord injury.• Equal opportunities, in the same line as the previous element, allowing equal opportunities for practising nautical sports for injured people which physical condition, is an obstacle “a priori” for such sport practice.• Equal access to sport for all, desìte the fact of their physical condition or status.In this project we are talking about ordinary people, not paralimpic athletes, that in a “normal” life would ghave the opportunity to experience and to practice the nautic sports, alone or together with their families, neighbours or other European citizens in the same condition and situation they are right now.This project goes a step beyond the so-called blended mobilities, because the target group (citizens with physical injuries, spine cord damage) will meet other ones like them in a virtual learning environment, feeling and sharing together motivations, frustrations, achievements, etc… all the elements involved in the sport practice.