A new Training of Trainers session of the Wheelchair Slalom Project, will take place on Barcelona the next 14th and 15th of December. We invite to all sporting bodies and other relevant stakeholders to assist and expose all your questions about the program.

W-Slalom is a relatively new sport that has been designed particularly for people with motor disability, users of wheelchairs. This sessions are made for professionalize and promote this kind of sports along the European territory.

Àngels and Ingrid, experts of wheelchair slalom from FECPC will lead this formation for futures local coaches.

If you are interested you only have to sing up on this link or write to fecpc@fecpc.ca
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The FECPC, in the frame of Erasmus Project, is organizing a seminary of slalom where the assistants will be able to know more about this sport and value the present and future of W-Slalom.
We wants to have athletes, technicians, judges and interested persons in promote this sport. In the seminary, that will take place today, tomorrow and Saturday 15 of December on the Consell Català de l'esport, we’ll collect and apply proposes you will think would improve this kind of sport.
For this reason, is important for us that all stakeholders will be with a proactive attitude, that’s could help us to make W-Slalom sport grow and makes world better and equal for everyone.   
If you are interested you only have to sing up on this link or write to fecpc@fecpc.ca

In the framework of the CPISRA World Games 2018 the Federations noticed that some adaptations were not correct or were not clear enough at the “Wheelchair slalom Competition Rules & Regulations harmonized and adapted to children”.

For that reason during the Sant Cugat meeting, Federations of Croatia and Austria, leaded by FECPC were allowed to share with all the stakeholders   the details of the competitions and difine some minor changes that will significantly improve the adapted rules.
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All changes decided, were added to the original “Wheelchair slalom Competition Rules & Regulations harmonized and adapted to children” in red color. However in this new annex you can also find all the changes in a single document that just introduce the changes made from the original version.

To see and know about all changes maked click here. 

Four months after starting the Erasmus Project, the Federations began with the Awareness sessions where they explained what the W - Slalom was about, how it is practiced, its benefits and how children can practicing this sport. Furthermore, these sessions allow people with disabilities to discover a new form of integration through sports
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This awareness has been made in different places of the cities that are part of the project, having a great reception by the attendees, who filled a form of satisfaction, which yielded good results. In sessions, the attendees practiced the W - Slalom and learn more about the sport through a video that explained what it consisted of.

Each of the four federations involved in the implementation of the W-Slalom Project, FECPC, HPO, ÖBSV and PCAND, they made an analysis of their focus group, separating the groups into two categories: FG1 (teachers, coaches, sports technicians, physiotherapist, school / club directors, etc.) and FG2 (children, caregivers, family members). Above, you will see the results of participation obtained by the four institutions.
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During the sessions we observed a high participation of the female gender, and a greater attendance of the FG1 group. The invitation is for families and childrens (FG2) to participate more in these calls, since they are the ones we want to reach and transform. 

On the first of December will take place the third Training of Trainers of the Wheelchair Slalom Project, the first one in the Catalan capital. Àngels and Ingrid, experts of wheelchair slalom from the Catalan Sports Federation for People with Cerebral Palsy (FECPC) will lead this formation for futures local coaches.

The specific objective of Training of trainers is to develop a training and awareness raising programme to promote wheelchair slalom among sporting bodies and other relevant stakeholders working with the target group.
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This will be the third Training of Trainers after the previous two that were done in Zagreb and Vienna. You can find more details about this formation in our events page.

During the CPISRA World Games - Sant Cugat 2018 we interviewed the Austrian team.

Since the Catalan Federation of Sports for People with Cerebral Palsy (FECPC) presented the Wheelchair Slalom project looking for alliances, the Institute for the Social Research of Italy (IRS) was in as a partner to proportionate the investigation, evaluation and monitoring of the project.

The main goal of the WSlalom project cofounded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union is to promote the social inclusion of children and young people with physical disabilities from 6 to 18 years old, promoting "wheelchair slalom" as a sport capable of improving physical abilities and producing psychological benefits.

Developing a training and awareness program to promote wheelchair slalom among sports organizations and other stakeholders working with the target group, we would activate a pilot action in project partners of sports organizations in Spain, Austria, Croatia and Portugal.

The IRS has the task of designing a social impact plan with the objective of revealing the individual and community social changes to which the program has contributed.