2024-02-18

Art Of Inclusion - Outdoor Sports and Activities

Erasmus+ Key Action 1 trainingcourse ‘Art Of Inclusion - Outdoor Sports And Activities’ took place from the 3rd - 10th of Februari 2023 at ‘The Giant Mountains’ at Trzcińsko, Poland.

Main activities of this project were:
- Exchange of experience
- Experiental learning
- winter activities
- partnership building activity

During this project, the participants shared their good practices and successful stories and projects. The participants took part in mixed-ability matches and got trained by a Polish Paralympic silver metal athlete.

She gave 2 presentations, was teaching us sitting volleyball and we learned from her how to play a type of handball for blind people. We also took advantage of beeing in the mountains in the winter, by hiking, joined by participants with a physical disability. 

Sasha, a barista in a wheelchair with his own coffeestores, gave a presentation about how he traveled Europe by bike, specially made for people in a wheelchair.

Later in the project, we were able to try out a modern electric version of Sasha’s bike, by the visit of a representive of https://www.sport-on.com who brought 2 different types of electric bikes, specially made to climb the mountains and bike on rough terrain and gave a presentation about the development and on how to use the bike.

We visited Nasza Fundacja, where we did several creative activities with their clients. We visited Karkonoski Sejmik Osob Niepelnosprawnych, a foundation mostly run by people with a dissability. We got a presentation about all the work they do and we went live on radio in their podcast, getting interviewed.

The participants had the possibility to work on new common projects, wich they eventually presented to eachother to potentially establish new projects and partnerships. Several connections and (potential) partnerships has been created by WAYOH because of this activity.

Together, we created this Manual For Youth Workers for Mixed-ability Outdoor Sports And Activities. If you are interested in receiving the manual, send us an email to contact@wayoh.eu!

The TC gathered 16 participants, from 11 different countries, sending 1 participant per sending organisation.

This project was carried out by Dredka, Kuba and Kasia from the foundation ‘Windmill Tree’ https://windmilltree.org/ at the venue Dom Sokolik https://www.domsokolik.com
Marten Jansen represented WAYOH as a partner in this 2nd ‘Art Of Inclusion’ project, after a positive experience as a participant in their first ‘Art Of Inclusion’ project in 2021.

We are happy to announce that more partnerships with Windmill Tree are expected to be realised in the near future. WAYOH is expected to be partner as well in Art Of Inclusion 3, expected to be organized in spring 2024.

Check out our Instagram page (link at the bottom of this page) for more pictures and videos about this project!