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EUROPARAGEDON+

2019-3-PL01-KA105-0777622019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|ES|EL|IT · Grant: €20,059.97
Access for disadvantagedInclusion - equityCivic engagement / responsible citizenship

Objectives

The EUROPARAGEDON + project is the result of a collaboration of European organizations working to activate people with disabilities and their social inclusion, as well as building civil society. The project will take place in Kielce (in the Świętokrzyskie Province), in Poland. The inspiration for its creation was the PARAGEDON Festival of Physical Activity of People with Disabilities implemented in Kielce for 3 years. This year, over 100 volunteers willing to act and gushing with ideas for further activities helped in its implementation. This is how the idea for an international youth exchange project was born. The project aims to enable young people from Poland, Greece, Spain and Italy to actively participate in a weekly project in Poland and to implement interesting activities previously planned by themselves. The project involves young people aged 17-23 from each group of 8 people under the care of at least one coordinator. At least one person in each group will be a person with a disability (both physical and mental). In some groups, e.g. Italian, all participants will be people with disabilities. Hence, the Italian group will have 2 carers working on a daily basis with a group of young people with disabilities participating in the project. The EUROPARAGEDON + project aims to activate people with disabilities and promote their participation in society. The project involves the organization of sports competitions with the participation of children of Primary School No. 2 in Kielce, as well as the Integration School in Kielce. The event is to activate young people, show alternative ways of spending free time, as well as raise the problems of modern Europe such as galloping obesity and increasing social apathy caused by addiction to cell phones and computer games. The project will create a positive image of people with disabilities in society and show them as active people who take active part in social life and are fully able to work and get involved. The project will allow participants to learn about many social activation tools, i.e. boccia games, organization of city games and presentations in public space. It will contribute to the development of young people and the acquisition of new competences that will be useful to them to function better in today's commercialized world. Through the EUROPARAGEDON+ project, we want to build a knowledge-based and committed civil society. Thanks to participation in the project, young people will acquire new competences, which they will later use in adult social and professional life. They will improve presentation skills, strengthen language and social skills. Participation in the project is to teach participants responsibility and confidence. By participating in the project, young people will gain confidence, be more confident in using English and participation in actions activating the local community. The aim of the project is also to support dialogue between people working for the activation of people with disabilities, as well as decision-makers and people responsible for local policy. Thanks to this, the issue of disability and the lack of access to certain places for the needs of people with disabilities and the lack of educational offer for such people will be raised in a wider group. The project is to contribute to the creation of a positive image of people with disabilities in society, showing that they have an equal right to be active and to be active and active participants in the life of local communities. The project is to give young people self-confidence and educate future leaders who are willing to take up activation measures in their local environment. The project is to shape attitudes of responsibility for other people.

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