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Good Practice Guidance GOOD PRACTICE GUIDANCE BOCCIA – Enhancing the quality of life of people with disabilities and their environment through Paralympic sport Boccia Dedicated to Erasmus + applicants and beneficiaries and for all whose purpose is to empow- er people with disabilities to enjoy the opportunity to practice sports. This publication reflects only the author’s views, and the Commission cannot be held respon- sible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein Substantive consultant PhD Piotr Urbański, University of Physical Education, Poznań Boccia Good Practice Guidance Table of contents PART I Introduction p. 3 1. Idea of the Project p. 4 2. Design of the Project p. 6 2.1. Main goals of the Project p. 6 2.2. Target group selection p. 7 2.3. Age and gender group selection p. 7 2.4. Partner selection p. 8 2.5. Staff selection p. 9 2.6. Project Main Activities p. 10 3. Project Participants and Results p. 11 3.1 Bulgaria p. 11 3.2 Greece p. 15 3.3 Georgia p. 18 3.4 FYR of Macedonia p. 21 3.5 Turkey p. 25 3.6 Poland p. 28 4. General results p. 32 4.1. Main activities of the Project p. 32 4.2. Outputs of the Project p. 34 5. Quality control during Project implementation p. 35 6. Dissemination and summary p. 36 7. Good Practice Recommendation p. 37 8. Links p. 40 PART II BOCCIA – description of the game p. 41 Boccia Good Practice Guidance Introduction This guidance was prepared on base of our experience gained during implementation of Erasmus+ Sport Project: BOCCIA – Enhancing the quality of life of people with disabilities and their environment through paralympic sport Boccia (2015-2017). Being aware of all lacks in different fields of the project and on the basis of gained results, we have decided to share some conclusions, which we find useful for future Erasmus+ Sport (but not only) actions. As you will see, our project was innovative due to at least a few facts: dif- ferentiation of participants, target groups and field of adapted sport dis- ciplines (rehabilitation and sport for people with disabilities). We believe that some of our experience may help in future actions of some NGOs which are working in the field of adapted sports and social integration. It is worth emphasising, that results of our Project and our efforts have been acknowledged, among the others, by the European Commission and the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). The latter one organized the Infoday on the Erasmus+ Programme in the field of sport which was held on 31 January 2017 in the Charlemagne building in Brussels, Belgium. The Infoday’s aim was to inform potential applicants about funding opportunities in 2017 and later. The START Association (as Leader of the Project) was invited to participate in the first plenary session to describe briefly our project, our way of building the partnership and application process. The round table covered lessons learnt and policy priorities of Erasmus+ Sport. Information and data from that meeting, including live stream, are available on: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/2017-erasmus-sport-info-day-gasp GOOD PRACTICE GUIDANCE 3 PART I 1. Idea of the project The extension participation of people with disabilities in social life is still a challenge for many EU countries. Sport is one of the most available and effective way to increase this participation. The Member States of the EU are giving priority to sport for people with disabilities since it provides important means of rehabilitation and social integration (additionally to its traditional function). In the EU countries the role of sport in education and increasing living standards are highly appreciated. The Amsterdam Treaty in its declaration no. 29 recognizes the social role of sport especially in building one’s identity and contacts between people. On the basis of that declaration the EU has taken an active role in promoting sport. Therefore it supported projects encouraging active integration of people with disabilities through sport activities. A good example which underscores the social value of sport and its contribution to the integration of vulnerable social categories is the Paralympic Movement. Our project is based on active rehabilitation and paralympic sport Boccia (to read more about Boccia go to Part II), which is a proven tool to activate people with all types of disability. Boccia improves their functional health, quality of their life, helps in integration/ inclusion process. Boccia is suitable for everyone, but has found great popularity mostly among people with even the most severe physical disabilities (Cerebral Palsy or related neurological conditions involving a wheelchair). It challenges both body and mind and provides wide spectrum of therapies. Boccia is an effective way to integrate intellectually and physically disabled individuals with able-bodied people in sports clubs, NGO’s, schools, rehabilitation centres, or at home. Strength and good physical health are main features pointed out by value hierarchy, generally accepted by people. It builds a model of productive and functional society which considers only individuals who are producers and consumers of goods as the fully worthy people. In this model there is not always enough space and time for people with disabilities. There is a group of people with disabilities which struggles with lack of self-acceptance, low self-esteem problems, lack of possibility to spend their leisure time in an active way and furthermore find ways for stress elimination. Mentioned problems are common for most EU societies but particularly relates to inhabitants of the less developed European countries, including those which have been covered by our project: Poland, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Greece and also Turkey or Georgia. Scientific researches, practise and our experience show incapacity of present solutions in the field of clinical and social rehabilitation for physically disabled people. State institutions are not able to manage to solve most of social difficulties. It gives fundamental reasons to change the existing but non-functional system and use modern methods to improve life of disabled. The change should be realised by self-organising society and be based on innovative means of raising standard of disabled people efficiency, pushing towards social integration. Boccia has different dimensions: it is a competitive sport, a therapy tool, as well as an integrative game – the perfect grassroots sport. Boccia is the first sport which gives opportunity to participate in any outside activities for people with highest level of disability. Due to all advantages of Boccia and the START Association experience in that field, we decided to apply for Erasmus+ Sport Project. Our project was implemented by 6 NGOs from Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, FYR of Macedonia, Turkey and Poland, and it was dedicated to people with disabilities, specialists, volunteers and persons working for people with disabilities. GOOD PRACTICE GUIDANCE 5 2. Design of the Project 2.1 Main goals of the Project Setting aims of the project is always the easiest and the hardest task at the same time. It is very easy to set general goals in most obvious fields. The problem appears, when we need to realise goals and prove that they have been accomplished. During preparation of our Project, we focused on setting them at the end and making them: workable, real, feasible and measurable. Finally we concluded them as two following points: 1. Transfer of effective solutions that equalizes opportunities and health enhancing physical activities of people with disabilities through the paralympic sport Boccia. 2. Increase participation in, and equal access to sport for all through: a. training of specialists (instructors, referees, promoters of Boccia), b. obtaining and training volunteers for NGO and Animators of life activity of people with disabilities in Project and Partner11 Organizations. c. creating Boccia Teams in Project and Partner Organizations countries pursuing systematically Boccia trainings for NGO and local communities. 1 In the application procedure there is a distinction between Project Country and Partner Country. However, for the purposes of this text, these names will be used mutually (signifying the participants of the project). 2.2 Target group selection Putting up a target group was one of the easiest tasks. People with disabilities need more support from other people in order to achieve the same living conditions as able-bodied ones. This support is not their privilege but one of the human rights. Offering the disabled participation in various forms of physical activities (on the basis of the European Union examples and Standard Principles of the UNO on providing equal opportunities for disabled) we wished to convince the Project’s participants that the physical activity creates various possibilities for them to increase their social life and develop their interests. Thanks to participation in the Project people with disabilities had chance to enhance their health, mental condition, decrease the feeling of being rejected and increase the sense of being needed and useful in the society. Our actions for people with disabilities included training of specialists, instructors, volunteers working for the environment of the disabled (animators of life activity for people with disabilities). What is the most characteristic for all Project’s Organizations, and chosen representatives – they all work in different fields of social activity. Some of them were connected more with sport or culture, some with rehabilitation – as you will see afterwards, this multifariousness gave us dozen opportunities. 2.3 Age and gender group selection During the recruitment process no age or gender requirements were considered. Priority was set on disability differentiation. Because of the project nature we decided to reach the highest amount of people with disabilities, volunteers, assistants etc. Any division (age, gender etc.) of participants would have stayed in opposition to idea of grassroots sports, culture integration, social integration and social inclusion, so important in our Project.
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