<< Objectives >>The EUROPARAGEDON + project is the result of a collaboration of European organizations working to activate people with disabilities and their social inclusion, as well as building civil society. The project will take place in Kielce (in the Świętokrzyskie Province), in Poland. The inspiration for its creation was the PARAGEDON Festival of Physical Activity of People with Disabilities implemented in Kielce for 3 years. This year, over 100 volunteers willing to act and gushing with ideas for further activities helped in its implementation. This is how the idea for an international youth exchange project was born. The project aims to enable young people from Poland, Greece, Spain and Italy to actively participate in a weekly project in Poland and to implement interesting activities previously planned by themselves. The project involves young people aged 17-23 from each group of 8 people under the care of at least one coordinator. At least one person in each group will be a person with a disability (both physical and mental). In some groups, e.g. Italian, all participants will be people with disabilities. Hence, the Italian group will have 2 carers working on a daily basis with a group of young people with disabilities participating in the project.The EUROPARAGEDON + project aims to activate people with disabilities and promote their participation in society. The project involves the organization of sports competitions with the participation of children of Primary School No. 2 in Kielce, as well as the Integration School in Kielce. The event is to activate young people, show alternative ways of spending free time, as well as raise the problems of modern Europe such as galloping obesity and increasing social apathy caused by addiction to cell phones and computer games. The project will create a positive image of people with disabilities in society and show them as active people who take active part in social life and are fully able to work and get involved.The project will allow participants to learn about many social activation tools, i.e. boccia games, organization of city games and presentations in public space. It will contribute to the development of young people and the acquisition of new competences that will be useful to them to function better in today's commercialized world.Through the EUROPARAGEDON+ project, we want to build a knowledge-based and committed civil society. Thanks to participation in the project, young people will acquire new competences, which they will later use in adult social and professional life. They will improve presentation skills, strengthen language and social skills. Participation in the project is to teach participants responsibility and confidence. By participating in the project, young people will gain confidence, be more confident in using English and participation in actions activating the local community. The aim of the project is also to support dialogue between people working for the activation of people with disabilities, as well as decision-makers and people responsible for local policy. Thanks to this, the issue of disability and the lack of access to certain places for the needs of people with disabilities and the lack of educational offer for such people will be raised in a wider group.The project is to contribute to the creation of a positive image of people with disabilities in society, showing that they have an equal right to be active and to be active and active participants in the life of local communities. The project is to give young people self-confidence and educate future leaders who are willing to take up activation measures in their local environment. The project is to shape attitudes of responsibility for other people.<< Activities >>During the weekly program in Poland, participants will take part in educational workshops as well as activities developed jointly during the preparation for the project. The workshops foreseen at the beginning assume the integration of the group, intercultural learning, breaking the ice, so that each participant feels good, accepted during the project and part of creating a community activating the environment of people with disabilities. During the project, workshops were planned to motivate participants to create ambitious plans for the future. The workshops are to motivate participants to express their dreams out loud and think about the methods to achieve them.The most important point of the project will be the preparation of sport competitions for students of Primary School No. 2 and the Integration School in Kielce. This event will be fully prepared and conducted by the participants themselves. This is to promote among children the concept of social inclusion, tolerance for otherness, a different culture, show interesting ways of spending free time, raise the problem of obesity and social apathy among today's society, especially youth.During the project, intercultural evenings of individual countries were also planned, as well as joint performance on the market in Kielce. This is to promote the project more, its assumptions, and show interesting international activities that can be implemented under the Erasmus + program.One of the interesting activities during the project will be a city game, as well as boccia workshops conducted by a professional trainer, a former athlete, currently in a wheelchair. During both activities, fully fit people will be able to empathize with the role of people with disabilities. They will perform tasks blindfolded or in wheelchairs in the city. While playing, they will have the opportunity to learn about the culture and history of Poland and Europe.Project participants will take part in daily evaluation, thanks to which they will be aware of the educational process during the project. One of the workshops will be devoted to the preparation of events in their countries that participants will perform after returning to their local communities after the end of the project.During the implementation of tasks, a family day is also planned, during which people from Italy, Greece and Spain will have the opportunity to spend with the families and friends of participants from Poland. It will allow to get to know the real realities of modern citizens' functioning.Participants will work under the careful eye of experienced specialists dealing with socially excluded people, people with disabilities and promoting social inclusion on a daily basis. Workshops will be conducted by coordinators from Poland, Italy, Spain and Greece.From each country, 8 young people aged 17-23 will participate in the project. They will be people gathered around four organizations working for social activation of excluded people and people with disabilities in their local environments. Participants in each group will include people with both physical and mental disabilities. Project participants will be people who permanently cooperate with partner organizations, actively participate in preparations for the EUROPARAGEDON + project and integration workshops and on social exclusion.<< Impact >>The results of the project are as follows. Thanks to the implementation of the project, participants:- learn about the social inclusion of people with disabilities through sport;- learn about the possibilities of international activities in the area of ​​activation of people with disabilities and the possibilities of joint activities in partnership with local stakeholders and in international partnership;- learn ways of better communication and cooperation in an international group;- learn the principles of self-acceptance, the presence of their skills and being active in their local environment;- learn group work, empathy, tolerance and cooperation, responsibility for others;- they will become more confident and will be leaders of change in their local environment;- learn to be open to another culture and representatives of other countries;- learn the culture and history of Poland and the European Union;- learn about the potential of the European Union and the opportunities offered by EU membership.Thanks to the implementation of the project:- 4 organizations from the European Union will build their potential in the field of international projects and interesting activities for the development of a knowledge-based civil society;- knowledge about social exclusion as well as ways of combating it and its negative impact on social development will increase;- bocci will be promoted as a great sports game accessible to people with disabilities;- primary school No. 2 and integration school will have the opportunity to participate in a very interesting project implemented by the participants of the international project;- after the end of the project, an event will be organized in each country to promote the results of similar sports competitions among children in Greece, Spain and Italy. Project participants will thus have the opportunity to check their organizational competences acquired during the project in Poland, and in addition it will be a great opportunity to recall the activities implemented in Poland and reflection on the informal learning process.- residents of Kielce will have the opportunity to spend time together with guests from other countries, learn to be open and culture.- problems of modern Europe will be addressed, i.e. obesity, social apathy, lack of social involvement, lack of acceptance of people with disabilities and social exclusion of such people;- a dialogue will be established between various stakeholders, e.g. educational institutions, local authorities, non-governmental organizations;