Sport for ALL for Sport: Gathering Popularity for Disabled Sport

Background Our project is an Erasmus+ Small Collaborative Partnership project called “Sport for ALL for Sport: Gathering Popularity for Disabled Sport”. Under the coordination of Pendik Municipality (Turkey), the Project was implemented wth Lousada Municipality (Portugal), Asociatia Club Sportiv Experienta Multisport (Romania) and İstanbul Kent University (Turkey) partners between 01.01.2020 and 31.12.2021. Normally our project duration was 18 months but we have taken extension because of Covid-19 pandemic Objectives The aims of the project are gaining supporters to disabled sports, raising awareness on disability in schools, motivating disabled people, their families, and supporters of disabled sports, protecting disabled people’s health via sport, to supporting cognitive, sensory, and motor development through physical activity of disabled people for children, young people, adults between 8 and 30 years old. Implementation Two stages have been executed by each partner in the implementation process: surveys and sports events/awareness activities.The partner, Kent University, created the questionnaires in English to be applied by each of the partners. Each partner has translated them to local languages and applied them to select participants of project activities.During the applying activities phase, each partner organized sports events, training, and dissemination activities for the target group. Achievements 81 questionnaires were implemented by the 4 partners in 3 different countries. A total of 24 sporting events were held divided by the 3 participating countries. Important days were also celebrated, namely 1 activity for Autism Day, 3 for World Down Syndrome Day and 4 for World Disability Day.The European Week of Sport was also celebrated with 5 events. 11 awareness-raising activities were also organized that contributed to the population's awareness of adapted sports.