We wanted to achieve a closer connection between organizations and sports clubs focusing on and working with youth with disabilities and to achieve mutual international cooperation in the development of an inclusive form of this sport. This is the only way to achieve long-term development and support across European countries, exchange of knowledge and know-how. Furthermore, we wanted to equip individual NGO with basic sports equipment, which will enable those who cannot afford the equipment to start playing the sport and enable the organizations to present the sport in schools, workshops, etc. We consider education to be key and therefore we set as a goal to connect with experts in various fields that generally affect the world of physical activity, sport, the NGO sector and youth work. The aim was to educate those who work with youth and provide them with much needed knowhow. The final goal was to summarize everything in a guidebook that would be freely accessible to all. The aim is to disseminate the knowledge gained without exception. Thus, the project as a whole has been developed with specific objectives and activities that have an impact not only on specific individuals but also on the general public working in the sector.
The main reason was our long-term support for the development of sport and physical activities for young people with all types of disabilities who play sports at an amateur level or even do not sports at all. In the sport of boccia, we have a number of long-standing international partner organisations with whom we have discussed the issue of boccia development and we have agreed that there is a general lack of a professional supply of free and quality information from which not only sports clubs, but especially leisure, educational or therapeutic facilities that can offer this sport to their clients, whether as a form of post-injury therapy, leisure activity or inclusion, could draw. The project focused on youth because of its importance. To shape them, to provide them with a social group background, to bring them among new friends thanks to the inclusive nature of sport and, in rare cases, to start them on the path of a professional athlete. Our biggest impetus has been the lack of equipment, the lack of good information (especially for those working with and educating the target group) and also the personal exchange of experiences, as this is something that has the greatest added value across all activities.