Primorje gorski kotar county para sports association and Para Sports Association of the City of Rijeka since year 2009. are engaged on many EU funded projects and from other sources.
Purpose of association is cooperation and joint implementation EU and other projects with organizations from Croatia, EU and rest of the world.
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EU Projects under implementation
Projects funded by the European Union Erasmus+ program
BeInclusiveWaterPolo
BeInclusive WaterPolo is an ErasmusPlus co-funded initiative aiming to develop new experience in the field of inclusive sports for people with intellectual disabilities in Bulgaria and Croatia.
Project duration: 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2025
Project value: € 60.000
Train4family
The main aim of the project is to increase awareness of the importance of physical activity among children aged 6-18 by additionally educating family members and by implementing sport activities for children in sport clubs/organizations in each partner country.
Project duration: 11/01/2024 – 10/31/2025
Project value: € 400.000
Swimming is 4 everyone
As part of the sports camp for young people with disabilities on Veli Lošinj, we presented the Erasmus + project “Swimming is 4 everyone”. The project is focused on the development and improvement of the best practices in the field of inclusive swimming, the training of coaches and the implementation of activities with children with disabilities aged 5 to 14 years.
Project duration: 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2025
Project value: € 60.000
IDHEApp
IDHEApp developed a gamification-based mobile application to promote healthy lifestyles (ie, physical activity and eating habits) among youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Project duration: 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2025
Project value: € 250.000
Hooray
In the past couple of years, the mental health of young people, particularly teenagers, has been declining. The HOORAY(Youth for Youth’s Mental Health through Physical Activity) project aims to address this challenge by exploring the impact and positive influence physical activity and sport can have on improving the overall well-being and mental health of young people.
Project duration: 01/01/2023 – 06/31/2025
Project value: € 400.000
PAYAMOS
Development of mobility and transportation of children / youth with disabilities / persons with disabilities, obesity prevention, determination of correlation between children’s health with regard to their transport to school.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Project value: HRK 2.974.230,74
DARTS FOR THE BLIND
The aim of the project is to develop and spread sports (darts) for the visually impaired and blind.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 30/06/2021
Project value: HRK 446.723,78
SAILAWAY
The aim of the project is to develop training and implement training of sailing instructors for people with autism.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Project value: HRK 2.089.520,26
South – East European Youth Para – Sport Exchange
Organization of camps and workshops for trainers in different European countries for people with disabilities for the mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2022
Project value: HRK 2.703.150,03
Social sport – inclusive community
Promotion of sport for persons with disabilities on social networks by young activator and motivators.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Project value: HRK 386.651,64
VIWAS – Visually Impaired Water polo Spectators. Broadcasting of water polo
The aim of this project is to create a well-structured comprehensive water-polo guide for the visually impaired and to provide support in the audio description of matches.
Project duration: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Project value: EUR 59.000,00 (small partnership, total budget)
Let’s swim beyond the handicaps
Target groups are Physical disabled kids and non-disabled kids aged 12-16 (6 physically disabled children and 6 non-disabled children from each partner country)
The goal is to include children with disabilities in social life, improve the quality of life, inclusion with their peers in everyday life through joint sports activities.
Learn more: Project Description (pptx, eng), Abstract (docx, eng).
Project duration: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021
Project value: EUR 55.775,00 (small partnership)
Holistic Sport Disciplines for People With Intellectual Disability: Hospitality
Promotion of light sports activities and meditations for people with intellectual disabilities.
Project duration: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021
Project value: EUR 58.860,00 (small partnership, total budget)
Voga & Share
The goal is to create a new model that would strengthen young people and promote social inclusion through recreational rowing.
Encouraging young people to play sports and to inform about climate change related to waste generated by motorized vehicles.
Project duration: 01/01/ – 31/12/2022
Project value: EUR 37.500,00 (great partnership, our budget)
Train4Inclusive
The aim of the project is to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, their parents and guardians. The project will ensure the exchange of good practice between people who supervise and carry out sports activities of people with disabilities in order to systematically monitor their physical, cognitive and social progress.
Project duration: 01/01/ – 31/12/2022
Project value: EUR 90.000,00 (great partnership, our budget)
RE-Sport – Youths Post – rehab Sport Activation
The aim is to promote social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport, while a parallel theme is to promote voluntary activities in sport and education in and through sport with special emphasis on skills development.
Two main target groups will benefit from the project results:
a) young people with disabilities and b) volunteers from sports organizations.
The creation of an online portal for blended learning will enable the implementation of two types of workshops with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of sports for health and injury prevention during the implementation of sports exercises for young people with disabilities.
Special attention will be paid to engaging in outdoor sports activities in nature, using existing outdoor facilities, due to free access and the importance of outdoor physical activity.
Project duration: …getting ready
Project value: …getting ready
Project ”DANSI”- Dancing for Social Inclusion
The project “DANSI” – was designed to offer an opportunity for cross-cultural exchanges through sport, with the aim of encouraging social inclusion and equal opportunities for people with disabilities using dance as medium. The project aims to highlight the value and uniqueness of the individual and his own potential. This initiative also wants to exchange and share different methodologies. The DANSI project promotes the active inclusion and full participation of people with disabilities in society, in line with the EU’s human rights approach to disability issues.
The following participate in the project:
La Mia Misura ASD Italy as project coordinator
Partner 1. Associação Recreativa Cultural e Social de Silveirinhos – ARCSS Portugal
Partner 2. Rijeka Sports Association for Persons with Disabilities from Croatia
Partner 3. Università Popolare dello Sport – UPS
The “DANSI” project is co-financed from the Erasmus+ Sport program of the EU.
Project “Dance4DYP”
will develop a modern dance program in Spain, Italy and Croatia, and is expected to have a positive impact on disadvantaged children and adolescents and their health by involving them in a new motivating initiative that they will share with their families, teachers and mentors.
Project duration: 1/1/2023 – 12/31/2024
Projects financed from the ESF fund of the European Union
“Kinesitherapeutic activities for the inclusion of children with disabilities”, acronym : „KIDS“
Improving social inclusion, and increasing the level of inclusion in society of groups at risk of social exclusion by expanding and improving the quality of social services in the community.
Project duration: 06/04/2020 – 06/12/2021
Project value: HRK 1.223.462,75
