Partnership
– NGO: Champions Factory Bulgaria (Bulgaria).
– NGO: MVNGO sport Branch (Italy).
– SME: NortH Atlantic Basketball Academy (Ireland).
ABSTRACT:
Empower DIsabled Through sport (EDIT) is a is a 24 months’ project in the field of Adult education, which aim to gain competences of Bulgarian NGO’s addressing the needs of adult learners with disabled from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In the present case, Champions Factory is an international non-governmental organisation aiming to bring social change through innovations in education, training, youth, Adult and sport, carrying out its customary activities in Bulgaria, with its headquarter in the capital Sofia. In the capacity of NGO operating for the educational support to the audience of youngsters and young adults in the region, Champions Factory focuses on providing an educational approach based on sport to tackle the main pressing social issues facing nowadays the covered area of West Balkans.
• OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT
The objectives of project stems from the fact that Champions Factory wants to invest in the improvement of skills of their internal human resources to gain specific competences in addressing the needs people with disability, as described below:
– competences to exploit UE policies of Sport as a tool to break down social barriers for disabled in Bulgaria;
– management of sport activities and events, also adaptive sports or para-sports;
– building up network among entities working in the field of Sport in a European perspective.
