Activities

Overview of all activities

1_”Training for Trainers of Volunteers” Training Course

date: 01/01/2018 – 31/03/2018 – Portugal

target group: Portuguese local/ national boccia sportspeople, especially fewer opportunities with disability

description:

This includes preparation, implementation and evaluation phases. The training course will take place during a week and it will have 30 participants, who will be trained to become trainers of volunteers  themselves, acting as boccia good practice “messengers” next to youngsters, using non formal methodology and principles, while at the same time raising awareness about the human rights of the people with disabilities and demystifying prejudices and stereotypes about this citizens, which are still very deeply rooted.

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2_ Networking among stakeholders – 1st transnational meeting (national and international)

date: 07/02/2018 – 08/02/2018 – Portugal

target group:

Partner representatives and relevant stakeholders

description:

This activity will consist of an overall meeting: networking among national and international stakeholders, defining the dissemination plan and the partnership agreement.

The partnership agreement, where the mutual rights and obligations between the coordinator and the partner are defined, will be discussed, approved and signed between partners here, in a transparent way. There will be included 2 travel days: 6 and 9th February.

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Volunteering Workshops

date: 05/04/2018 – 30/08/2018 – Portugal

target group:

Local youngsters from basic and secondary schools, aged of 10 to 18 years old, especially fewer opportunities, boccia practitioners and interested people to become volunteers

description:

This includes preparation, implementation and evaluation phases. It will consist of workshops for local volunteers to contribute to the awareness-raising actions held all over Portugal, concerning boccia, according to our local/national formal and informal partners.

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Awareness-raising Actions by Volunteers

date: 02/05/2018 – 31/10/2018 – Portugal

target group:

Youngsters from basic and secondary schools, aged of 10 to 18 years old, especially fewer opportunities

description:

This activity included visits that the volunteers will do next to youngsters, using non-formal education and learning methodology, but also the implementation of boccia tournaments. All the contributions will be gathered for the preparation of the dissemination tools. MEDesTU is going to use a projector and a computer for the dissemination of Erasmus+ Programme, which reduces costs.

 

No.	Activity and venue (including Transnational Project Meetings, Intellectual Outputs and Multiplier Sport Events)	Start date	End date	Target group(s)	Description of activity
1	Statistics and data collection, and mapping – Portugal	01/01/2018	31/03/2018	Boccia-related stakeholders	This activity is meant to gather relevant information in what boccia in Portugal is concerned, conducting to a complete and detailed mapping of where and how the boccia exists at Schools Grouping and schools as school sports (Desporto Escolar), and which impact and the meaning they have for both students participating and for the communities in which they are inserted, always a demystification logic of prejudices and stereotypes of children, youth and adults with disabilities. This analysis would be carried out in view of the existing indicators; in case of non existence, adequate indicators to fill that gap would be created.
2	“Training for Trainers of volunteers” training course – Portugal	01/01/2018	31/03/2018	Portuguese local/ national boccia sportspeople, especially fewer opportunities with disability	This includes preparation, implementation and evaluation phases. The training course will take place during a week and it will have 30 participants, who will be trained to become trainers of volunteers  themselves, acting as boccia good practice “messengers” next to youngsters, using non formal methodology and principles, while at the same time raising awareness about the human rights of the people with disabilities and demystifying prejudices and stereotypes about this citizens, which are still very deeply rooted.
3	Networking among stakeholders – 1st transnational meeting (national and international) – Portugal	07/02/2018	08/02/2018	Partner representatives and relevant stakeholders	This activity will consist of an overall meeting: networking among national and international stakeholders, defining the dissemination plan and the partnership agreement. The partnership agreement, where the mutual rights and obligations between the coordinator and the partner are defined, will be discussed, approved and signed between partners here, in a transparent way. There will be included 2 travel days: 6 and 9th February.
4	Volunteering workshops – Portugal	05/04/2018	30/08/2018	Local youngsters from basic and secondary schools, aged of 10 to 18 years old, especially fewer opportunities, boccia practitioners and interested people to become volunteers	This includes preparation, implementation and evaluation phases. It will consist of workshops for local volunteers to contribute to the awareness-raising actions held all over Portugal, concerning boccia, according to our local/national formal and informal partners.
5	Mid-term evaluation – online	15/06/2018	15/06/2018	Partner representatives and relevant stakeholders	This activity will consist of the partners’ assessment of the project. All the partner organisations would receive a digital questionnaire, which they will be encouraged to fill in in the most clear and transparent way, so the project can be improved.
6	Awareness-raising actions by volunteers – Portugal	02/05/2018	31/10/2018	Youngsters from basic and secondary schools, aged of 10 to 18 years old, especially fewer opportunities	This activity included visits that the volunteers will do next to youngsters, using non-formal education and learning methodology, but also the implementation of boccia tournaments. All the contributions will be gathered for the preparation of the dissemination tools. MEDesTU is going to use a projector and a computer for the dissemination of Erasmus+ Programme, which reduces costs.
7	Creation of 2 dissemination tools: A manual of good practices  and a website/platform  – online	01/04/2018	31/11/2018	Public in general	Preparation, development and implementation of a dissemination tool: 1. A manual of good practices called “Inclusive & Adapted Sport – Boccia for all”, that contribute to demystifying prejudices and stereotypes about boccia as an inclusive and adapted sports. It is intended that this manual of good practices is fully accessible. Thus, it will be written in Portuguese and English, and in an accessible language that serve the public in general and with specific formatting and colors features, and the incorporation of a proper language code for those with intellectual disabilities. In addition, there will be an audiobook with the reading of the recording, with subtitles in both languages and explanation, which will serve the deaf community, blind people and those who cannot read. MEDesTU will publish this manual through a self-publishing library, and it will contain a mention to its “open licence”. 2. A website/platform that will gather the collected boccia-related information, as well as working as a platform that brings together all the stakeholders of boccia (schools, institutions and sportspeople) with adequate information for promoting boccia as a means for recreation and leisure. The contents above will be made freely available and downloadable for everyone there and through partners’ websites as well, after the project lifetime. This will be a new website created by MEDesTU (sub-domain from MEDesTU named after the short name of this project: Boccia4all) which will use the contents produced during the project in Portuguese and English, resulted from the research made at the beginning of the project and complemented with the trainers and volunteers testimonies and a photo gallery. The volunteers will be active participants in the co-designing and co-management process, like what the website should have and how it look like (from youngsters to youngsters). They will receive as much support as necessary to enhance their competences. The communication with the applicant organisation should continue during this phase, for support.
8	Dissemination activities – Portugal	01/11/2018	30/11/2018	Interested parties and public in general	Implementation phase for dissemination activities to present the results and dissemination tools in strategic places in Portugal, such as Porto and Lisbon, which have the duration of one day, taking place in the month of November.
9	Dissemination and exploitation of results – Slovenia	01/11/2018	30/11/2018	Interested parties, boccia sportspeople and interested people to become volunteers and public in general	This activity held in the partner country consists of two moments: 1. Training for Trainers of volunteers of 4 days for 30 participants involving 2 trainers previously recruited, in line with the previous one; and a conference for presentation of results and the dissemination tools. Total duration time: 5 days (4+1), which will take place in the month of November.
10	Dissemination and exploitation of results – Italy	01/11/2018	30/11/2018	Interested parties, boccia sportspeople and interested people to become volunteers and public in general	This activity held in the partner country consists of two moments: 1. Training for Trainers of volunteers of 4 days for 30 participants involving 2 trainers previously recruited, in line with the previous one; and a conference for presentation of results and the dissemination tools. Total duration time: 5 days (4+1), which will take place in the month of November.
11	Dissemination and exploitation of results – Greece	01/11/2018	30/11/2018	Interested parties, boccia sportspeople and interested people to become volunteers and public in general	This activity held in the partner country consists of two moments: 1. Training for Trainers of volunteers of 4 days for 30 participants involving 2 trainers previously recruited, in line with the previous one; and a conference for presentation of results and the dissemination tools. Total duration time: 5 days (4+1), which will take place in the month of November.
12	Overall and final evaluation – 2nd transnational meeting (national and international) – Portugal	05/12/2018	06/12/2018	Partner representatives and relevant stakeholders	This activity will consist of an overall meeting: networking among national and international stakeholders for the second time, for final evaluation, dissemination evaluation and creation a list of recommendations for influencing policy and practice, at national but also international level, especially in what the EU Gender Equality Strategy and the EU Disability Strategy are concerned. Report writing. Methods: world café, brainstorm, working in small groups. There will be included 2 travel days (4 and 7).
13	Report and Mobility Tool – online	01/01/2018	31/12/2018	Partner representatives and relevant stakeholders	Report writing.