🏀 From 23–26 March 2026, Barcel’hona Sports Events hosted an international training for coaches and players of wheelchair basketball in Barcelona within the Inclusive Wheelchair Sport Events – InWheel project. The training gathered 24 participants from six countries to strengthen inclusive coaching practices and improve wheelchair basketball techniques based on the Inclusion Reloaded methodology.

♿ Through a combination of workshops, on-court sessions, and demonstration matches, participants explored adaptive game strategies, teamwork, and integration between traditional and wheelchair basketball. The training also focused on planning follow-up activities, including local training sessions and national tournaments, while collecting feedback to further improve methodologies.

KOM 018 from Serbia, together with its partners: IWA from Ireland, HOPE from North Macedonia, Levski from Bulgaria, Barcel’hona Sport Events from Spain and HSKUK from Croatia implement the project “Inclusive Wheelchair Sport Events – InWheel” in order to promote social inclusion in and through wheelchair basketball and to encourage more participation in this unique and inclusive sport. “Inclusive Wheelchair Sports Events / InWheel” project directly addresses the objectives and priorities of the Not-for-Profit European Sport Events action, particularly focusing on priority social inclusion through sport. The project’s main aim is to promote wheelchair basketball as a dynamic and inclusive sport, creating opportunities for people with disabilities to participate and thrive. It directly tackles the barriers that people with disabilities face in sports, promoting integration between traditional basketball and wheelchair basketball. The project intends to enhance the visibility, European wheelchair basketball tournament and effectiveness of wheelchair basketball through structured training, local engagement and awareness raising, and policy recommendations. Through awareness raising and community engagement, wider public will be more informed and more sensitive to the position of people with disabilities, they will be more sensitive about issues of social exclusion and empowered to take supportive actions in building more inclusive local communities and ultimately society. “InWheel” project will be organized in Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, North Macedonia, Serbia and Spain in the period 01.11.2025 to 31.10.2027 and it is co-funded by the European Union.

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