Sport. Bulgaria.

SPORT. BULGARIA.

ERASMUS+

Description of the project: NGO Demo with the support of Association FOR YOU from Varna, Bulgaria would like to introduce a Not for profit sport event in the field of sport for people with disabilities as an Erasmus+ project proposal. The sport event shall consist of a small wheelchair tennis competition and a conference aiming at exchange of European good practice for management and development of sport activities for people with disabilities. This event shall include young wheelchair tennis players and professionals working in the field and shall act as a preparatory action for the upcoming activities in the program of Varna European Youth Capital 2017 supported by the Youth and sport municipal department . As a result of this project partners will not only learn from the experience of each other but also plan future projects in the field of sport for people with disabilities which can be included in the programs of Varna European Youth Capital 2017 but also Sofia European Sport Capital 2018. 
The event will take place in Varna, Bulgaria at the end of April 2016. 

Partners sought: Local governments(sport departments), sport academies, NGOs working in the field of sports, sport clubs for people with disabilities, tennis clubs training wheelchair tennis players, tennis federations, paralympics federations or sport organizations. Partners shall be from EU member states as well as partners from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey.

The rest of the participants shall be : 
- Specialists working in local governments – sport departments 
- Students in sport academies 
- Teachers in sport academies 
- Trainers of people with disabilities 
- Trainers of wheelchair tennis players 
- Managers and members of sport clubs for people with disabilities 
- Managers of sport activities for people with disabilities 
- Personal assistants of the sportsmen/women participating in the competition 
- Representatives of tennis federations 
- Representatives of Paralympics federation 
We will give advantage to people up to 30 years old. 

Each partner shall contribute to the event with one or more report/lecture in one of the following topics: 
- Wheelchair tennis – country profile, specifics of the training process , difficulties for the development , 
- Local policy good practice for development of sport activities for people with disabilities 
- National policy good examples for support of sport for people with disabilities 
- Educational programs for inclusion and training of people with disabilities – good examples and challenges 
- International / European funding opportunities in the fields of sport for people with disabilities 
- Self promotion and fundraising for sportsmen 
- Voluntarism in sport 

Accommodation , travel and board will be covered by the Erasmus + programme. Participation fee is 100 € per person, all lectors participate free of charge . 

Deadline: 30/04/2015

Publicado por europa en abril 21, 2015