Newsletter Issue 2

1. Progress Report submitted

The Progress Report was submitted to the European Commission on 29th of June.
In the progress report, a general description of the status of the project was given. The workplan was described by given an overview of the actions that were already undertaken and of the future tasks and products to develop. Finally, a financial report was completed.
This Progress Report is an important step in the approval of the final budget, results and products by the European Commission. A copy of the progress report is available at the project assistant.

2. Change of Italian Partner

In May, an Agreement Modification Form was submitted to the European Commission to announce officially the change of partnership of our Italian Partner.
Anna Bianco, the Italian key-person of the project has recently transferred from the university of Torino to the University of Cagliari. To ensure the continuity of the Joint Actions Project and continue this excellent cooperation, both universities as well as the project coordinator decided to transfer the partnership to the new employer of Anna, the university of Cagliari.
Therefore the University of Torino officially withdrew his partnership. “The University of Cagliari has committed to take over all tasks and responsibilities connected with the project from the Institute of Physical Education in Torino.
Contact details of the new partner:
Universita’ degli Studi di Cagliari
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche
Anna Bianco & Alessandro Mathieu

3. Presentation International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA), Verona, 5/07/2005.

On 5/07/2005, our project was presented at the 15th IFAPA symposium in Italy. This symposium is organised every 2 year and is the most important symposium in the field of Adapted Physical Activity. Since the symposium took place in Europe this year, we were presented with an excellent opportunity to propose our project to a group of APA experts from around the world.

The abstract that was accepted for presentation after submission to the IFAPA board

4. Final Report: National policies on Inclusion in Physical Education, Sports and Employment of Youngsters with Disabilities

All the reports on the National Policy on Inclusion in Physical Education, Sports and Employment of Youngsters with Disabilities were collected in a general report. This general report was submitted together with the Progress Report.
In the next few weeks, the comparison between all European policies will be made and a set of recommendations will be drawn up based on this comparison. This set of recommendations will then be translated by all partners in their native language and published in a folder for dissemination to the policy makers in the participating countries.

5. Future Actions

The next project forum will be held in Cagliari, Italy from 19th until 23rd of October. By the first of October all examples of good practice should be submitted so they can be reviewed on the next forum.