【Germany】Sports Exchange for the Disabled: Introducing Germany’s Advanced Sports for the Disabled to Japan

Time Period
1st to 7th Mar., 2018
Sport/Programme Category
Parasports
Implementer
co-innovation laboratory
Co-Implementer
Iwate Prefecture Sports Association for Persons with Disabilities
Suntory Holdings Limited
Japan Philanthropy Association
Enable Sports Club
Sankei Shimbun
Number of Individual Beneficiaries
1 person
This was an exchange project with a German sports organization for the disabled. The exchange project provided know-how on symbiotic sports from Japan and invited experts from Germany to carry out a project to introduce advanced initiatives to Japan.

Takkyu volleyball and balloon volleyball are symbiotic sports devised in Japan. These are sports that can be participated by both men and women of all ages regardless of the presence, type, and degree of disability. They are offered to German sports organizations for the disabled and the most severely disabled. The organizers are carrying out activities to popularize it as a tool to solve local issues such as the creation of sports opportunities and the spread of sports for the elderly. In this project, as part of the exchange project for the dissemination project conducted in Germany in September, inviting experts from Germany to give lectures in various parts of the country.

1) Special Workshop for Sports for Persons with Disabilities

Venue: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture

Participants: 90

2) Significance of sports for the disabled in regional sports clubs and social issues that can be solved toward the 2020 Tokyo Games

Venue: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Participants: 40 students

3) COIL Seminar vol.13: 2020 Symbiotic Society x Sports x Social Participation of Persons with Disabilities -How have sports promoted social participation of persons with disabilities? -
Venue: Tokyo
Participants: 85

4) Sankei Shimbun 85th Anniversary Seminar Realization of a Symbiotic Society and Parasports: 2020 Symbiotic Society x Sports x Social Participation of Persons with Disabilities -How have sports promoted social participation of persons with disabilities? -
Venue: Tokyo
Participants: 100

See below for the Japanese version.
http://www.sftlegacy.jpnsport.go.jp/wp/jp/20180416-1/

Feedback from Local Contacts :

Comments from Dr. Horst Strokendel, Head of the German Wheelchair Sports Federation Leader Training Division, Honorary professor of the University of Cologne:
It was very important to be able to introduce the advanced efforts to popularize sports for the disabled in Germany in Japan, where interest is increasing before 2020.

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