{"id":10160,"date":"2017-11-22T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.danilodolci.org\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2022-03-13T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T10:50:30","slug":"impacts-disabled-people-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/news\/impacts-disabled-people-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPACTS: A new future for disabled people in sports career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMPACTS:<\/strong>Within the European Union there are still many challenges to full inclusion of non-mainstreaming groups.<\/p>\n

More specifically the social and economic inclusion of disabled people, migrants and young people still lags behind.<\/p>\n

In fact, people with disabilities deal with barriers when they want to pursue their careers especially in the field of sport: sometimes due to interpersonal obstacles (lack of self-esteem), lack of intervention at policy level or due to organizational difficulties in some organizations.<\/p>\n

IMPACTS<\/a> has put all its efforts in addressing this situation and progress made has been latent and was shared among the partnership during the last meeting<\/strong> held in Maastricht on the 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> November 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During the final meeting, project results <\/strong>were shown, and as highlight, we can see that a strong network has been created <\/strong>and finally, sports clubs are more aware of disabled athletes\u2019 needs<\/strong> and can consequently better their structures and their sports\u2019 activities.<\/p>\n

Some of the achievements of the project have been:<\/p>\n