GOALS

• Collect researches, expertise and good practices about disabled persons sport activation to explore their needs and interests and any problems with performing exercise. Identify which physical activities elderly prefer, their expectations, problems and negative consequences and health problems which occur due to not being physically active.

      Collection of min. 10 articles (NA, EU), and analysis the results.        Preparation of summary report  and recommendations.

• Research among volunteer students, from non-medical fields, to determine the necessary knowledge they need for sports activation of the disabled and support for the correct implementation of exercises. At least 25 students from each partner country will be surveyed, with a total of 125 participants at a minimum.
• Develop a set of sport exercises for disabled persons after rehabilitation or treatment, respecting the results of online research, best practices and professional experiences of involved project partners’ staff, sport and other experts/stakeholders. Select the best motivation strategy to motivate seniors to be more physically active. Cooperation with sport organizations/associations, fitness and group exercises organizations and other sport clubs is an important aspect. Innovative approaches are necessary in order to attract the target group to raise their inclusion in sport activities;
• Curriculum and learning material development for student volunteers is the core of student volunteers training. We will design the curriculum for student volunteers training Fit-IN Rehab, develop digital learning platform for education and information and prepare the learning material. The digital learning platform will be intent for the training of student volunteers (blended learning) and also for informational purpose for the disabled seniors and other interested public, as it will include sports exercises for the elderly after rehabilitation / treatment. Learning material for student volunteers will include topic psychological support and empowerment of people with disabilities for sports, motivation senior in sport, and materials as important aspect at dealing with the sports activities of the elderly, like injury prevention, disability and sport and similar.
• Train cca. 100 student volunteers from non-medical fields (min 20/per partner) by programme Fit-IN Rehab, to learn sport exercises for disabled persons after rehabilitation and other topics as individual approach to disabled seniors, psychological support and the acquisition of relevant skills in the field of health and sport. Particularly important will be the co-operation with the sports organizations and clubs and medical profession as well. Preparation the structure of workshop and learning material. The training will be implemented with the support of the e-learning platform and developed learning material.
• Pilot implementation of the innovative sport programme Fit-IN Rehab with persons with disabilities after rehabilitation/treatment and student volunteers support in all 5 partners’ countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Italy and Serbia) min (30 persons per partner), all together 150. Pilot training will be lead by experienced student volunteers successfully finished the training workshop Fit-IN Rehab.

Dissemination activities

The project consortium will prepare dissemination activities plan. It will include measurable and realistic objectives, timetable and resources. The main goal is to reach the greatest possible number disabled persons after rehabilitation/treatment, student volunteers, trainers, coaches and other relevant public.

We plan to use social media pages (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc.), each partner will use the pages from their organization (min. 1000 visitors).

Setup of the awareness campaign on Facebook (cca. 10.000 views)

The project is also going to be promote by leaflets, posters and flyers.

Where we are going to promote the developed sports and exercises for disabled persons for potential users relevant stakeholders and wide public.