Lif4all Foosball

Lif4all Foosball –n. 101086166

The project will be an Erasmus Plus Sport Small Collaborative partnerships, according to Erasmus Plus Programme rules. This project aims to boost the inclusion of visual impaired children in blended teams of life foosball through the promotion of this sport among schools hosting students from5 to 15 years old with sight loss. Life foosball is still unprecedented in para-Olympic activities, however it has many potentialities that make it strongly suitable to ensure the same opportunities to access and compete to paired and impaired athletes in blended teams. Its spatial bounding and the demarcation of players positions, in fact, reset risks and problems of spatial orientation and physical encounters, eighter empowering blind athletes to highlight their alternative abilities and allowing paired athletes to play the game in sight loss conditions with no risks and deeply understand their impaired peers and appreciate their full potential. Blended teams of life foosball can really offer a positive context where barriers and stigma collapse and children with disabilities acquire vital social skills, develop independence, and become empowered to act as agents of change.

This project addresses to another target as well, coaches and teachers that will train blended teams of life foosball in the schools included in the project training programme and in the expected future. Their capability to understand athletes’ impairments and needs, to highlight their alternative abilities, to communicate with them are of paramount importance. One of the objectives of this project is, therefore, to provide an online training programme open to any coach that wants to improve skills and acquire techniques to successfully communicate with visual impaired athletes, give spatial orientation tips, adopt the correct psychomotor behaviour, and manage a blended team of paired and impaired athletes to stimulate a fair cooperation and fellowship. The online training programme will also offer guidelines about the games rules, and how to equip a foosball field to encourage the diffusion of this activity.

PARTNERSHIP

LEAD PARTNER – FC FRASCATI

L’ F.C. FRASCATI si conferma anche quest’anno Scuola Calcio Elité. Tecnici qualificati con notevole esperienza nella gestione dei ragazzi che prenderanno parte a questo progetto. Si porra’ attenzione ai giovani atleti favorendone la formazione come persone e come sportivi, stimolando la coesione, lavorando sulla motivazione; utilizzando il calcio come strumento educativo.

Nell’ambizioso progetto, vengono affrontati i temi legati ai bisogni e alle possibilità dei giovani nelle diverse fasce di età anche in relazione alle richieste e alle attese del mondo adulto che li circonda in questa esperienza (famiglie e società stessa). Per questa ragione sono stati progettati percorsi specifici dedicati all’Attività di Base e al Settore Agonistico e rivolti ai diversi soggetti coinvolti.

Una parte consistente del progetto è dedicata a offrire occasioni di confronto e riflessione anche alle figure adulte, che ricoprono un ruolo fondamentale nel progetto educativo che connota il Settore Giovanile. Con gli allenatori di tutte le squadre sono stati avviati percorsi di accompagnamento e formazione (tra i temi: l’identità dell’istruttore e dell’allenatore, la relazione con ragazzi e genitori, la motivazione, l’abbandono, la comunicazione, fare squadra – sia la squadra di atleti, sia dei tecnici); mentre ai genitori saranno dedicate serate su temi specifici individuati a partire da interessi della società e dei genitori medesimi.

F.C. FRASCATI confirms itself as the Elite Football School once again this year. Qualified technicians with considerable experience in the management of the boys who will take part in this project. Attention will be paid to young athletes, favouring their formation as persons and as sportsmen, stimulating cohesion, working on motivation; using football as an educational tool.

In this ambitious project, issues related to the needs and possibilities of young people in the various age groups are also addressed in relation to the demands and expectations of the adult world surrounding them in this experience (families and society itself). For this reason, specific courses have been designed dedicated to the Basic Activity and the Competitive Sector and aimed at the various subjects involved.

A substantial part of the project is dedicated to offering opportunities for discussion and reflection also to adult figures, who play a fundamental role in the educational project that characterises the Youth Sector. Accompanying and training courses have been set up with the coaches of all the teams (among the topics: the identity of the instructor and coach, the relationship with children and parents, motivation, dropping out, communication, making a team – both the team of athletes and the coaches); while parents will be offered evenings on specific topics identified on the basis of the interests of the club and the parents themselves.

PARTNER: LASS – HUNGARY

YOUTHORAMA – GREECE

ONLINE KICK OFF MEETING

16 giugno 2023

Siamo felicissimi di annunciare l’inizio del nostro progetto! Oggi abbiamo avuto il primo incontro online con i nostri partner.

Durante questo incontro abbiamo definito il piano d’azione e il calendario delle attività che verranno svolte durante il progetto. Abbiamo delineato i compiti e le responsabilità di ciascun partner, nonché definito il piano di monitoraggio delle attività e le spese per le attività.

Siamo entusiasti di iniziare questo progetto e non vediamo l’ora di vedere i risultati!

ONLINE KICK OFF MEETING

June 16th 2023

We are delighted to announce the beginning of our project! Today we have had our first online encounter with our partners.

During this meeting we have defined the action plan and the time schedule for the activities that will be carried during the project. We have outline the tasks and responsibilities of each partner, as well as defined the plan for monitoring activities and expenses for the activities.

We’re so excited to start this project and we can’t wait to see the results!