The Sports Department of the Consell de Eivissa kicked off the 4th edition of the DIE Inclusive Sport at School (EIE) Educational Programme, the academic year 2024-2025, at the IES Macabich educational centre, with the sportsman Jordi Morales García, table tennis player, and at the IES Sa Blanca Dona, with the athlete Javier Soto Rey.

Thus, two days have been held with the participation of more than 470 students from IES Macabich and IES Sa Blanca Dona, in which both Jordi Morales, a table tennis player with physical disability, participated in 7 Olympic Games, with 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal, and Javier Soto Rey, deaf athlete world champion and athlete Javier Soto Rey, world champion deaf athlete and professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, gave two talks to explain what their adapted sport consists of and to raise awareness of the situation of people with disabilities in sport, as well as to promote inclusive sport in schools. These two talks were designed to be dynamic and for the students themselves to interact with renowned Paralympic athletes who could answer all their questions and doubts.

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Paralympic athletes Jordi Morales and Javier Soto open the ‘Inclusive Sport at School’ programme

After the presentations, the practical activities took place at the Sa Blanca Dona sports centre and were developed by experts in the field of physical education and disability, covering different sports modalities such as sitting volleyball, goalball, football with visual impairment and athletics with visual impairment. A total of 11 educational centres have joined these sessions, which will continue during November, January and February.

Objectives and content of the DIE Inclusive Sport at School educational programme

The educational programme DIE Inclusive Sport at School, developed by the ‘Fundación Sanitas’ Chair of Studies on Inclusive Sport (CEDI), a chair born from the collaboration between the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (INEF), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the Fundación Sanitas, with the impulse, the support and organisation of the Consell Insular de Eivissa, offers a great opportunity to participate from the academic year 2024-2025 in inclusive sports contexts, bringing significant benefits for both people with and without disabilities and improving the attitude of young people without disabilities towards their peers with disabilities.

The DIE Inclusive Sport at School programme is recognised as an event of exceptional public interest by the Fundación 4 Deporte Joven (Sports Council) and in which the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Fundación También and the Community of Madrid collaborate.