Diverse and Inclusive Teams for Children under 12

DITEAM12 stands for Diverse and Inclusive Teams for Children Under 12.The project’s objectives are to raise awareness on the positive aspects of non-competitive sports for children under 12, create inclusive and diverse clubs and use inclusion and diversity in sport clubs as tools to prevent violence and intolerance.

The project aims to achieve this in two ways:

• By providing online pedagogical tools (Web Educational Tool) for coaches and club directors to allow them to focus on skills development and on self-improvement of children rather than on competition. In addition to this, the DITEAM12 will create inclusive clubs in which children with different abilities can train together. This will make room for children with mental, sensorial or physical disability. By focusing on the good aspects of competition the best potential of each child will be reached.

• By creating a “school of parents” in the involved sports clubs in which workshops will be organised. This will allow parents to accept diversity in the team, understand the focus on the development of children through inclusion and tolerance rather than through competition and superiority.

To read and download the material which has been developed, please follow the links under School of Coaches and School of Parents in the side navigation or click on the links below:

Literature Review

School of Coaches

School of Parents

The project ran from January 2020 to December 2021.

The DITEAM12 European Partnership is composed of the European Paralympic Committee, Informa Psicología y Deporte (Spain), International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, Mi Hijo y Yo (Spain), Schola Empirica (Czech Republic), and the Pedagoški inštitut (Slovenia).

To get to know the project partners, please click here.

To watch the final presentation head here.