10th August 2022 – Akademija Rudi Hiti organized a seminar  “Young athletes and social inclusion” in Bled, Slovenia. The seminar was organised in cooperation with Swedish ice hockey club Frölunda during the international brothers Hiti ice hockey camp. During the program of the camp we prepared seminar for the target group of young hockey players. Together with our international partners from Sweden and Slovakia, we invited competent speakers to share best practices and raise awareness about the importance of social inclusion and the tools to empower the organisations to motivate them to be more involved.

The speakers were:

Gorazd Hiti, Head of development in Akademija Rudi Hiti

Lasse Hulten, Swedish Ice Hockey Federation

Nuša Pogačar, SlovenianBiathlon Federation

Alex Sandsten, Hockey club Frölunda

The seminar attended 20 young athletes from local ice hockey club.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sM_ykk0IbNB27PUhF23CNFaXh5Q9hVHT

July 2022 – Asociación Iniciativa Internacional Joven (AIIJ) from Malaga, Spain, together with other 3 European partners, published an e-book whose title is: „“Good Practices and Educational Tools for inclusion through sport”. It was created in the framework of the EU Erasmus+ co-funded project: „Inclusion Through Sport“.
A quote from this e-book: We, professionals in the social sphere who develop sporting activities, have a very important role to play and we must carry out specific actions and projects to build a more egalitarian model. Therefore, it is necessary to work with all the people who live together in our societies to empower them and reinforce the importance of unity in diversity, in order to contribute to the transformation and social inclusion of all people and groups, which is why we decided to create and implement this project: “Inclusion Through Sport”.

16th till 18th of July 2021 – During the Transnational Project Meeting held in Bled (Slovenia) in person, after first wave of pandemic, our project partner Akademija Rudi Hiti organized a study visit at the lake Bled lake rowing centre in order to show us how the local Rowing club Bled work in developing kids and youngster and delivers courses to people with special needs. We have met also Olympic medalist in Rowing , Jani Klemencic and during the evening event forward to him the objectives and the goals of the project.

LIGA BULTZA

It is difficult to imagine a competition where there are no results, no classification, or a final being held so that there is a winner. Well, it exists. This is the so-called Bultza League (to push, in Basque) of inclusive rugby in which Valtecsa UBR, Getxo, Hernani and Vithas Gaztedi from Vitoria participate. It is the first inclusive rugby league organized by a federation, in this case the Basque one. It is played over six weekends with matches on the same field in a double round, all against all and with no substitution limit.

https://www.epe.es/es/deportes/20220101/rugby-inclusivo-valvula-escape-deportistas-13013854

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Larunbat honetan, ekainak 11, UBR taldeak V. Errugbi Txapelketa Inklusiboan parte hartuko du.
Este sábado 11 de junio, el Universitario Bilbao Rugby estará presente en Hernani en el V Torneo de Rugby Inclusivo.
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— Uni Bilbao Rugby (@UniBilbaoRugby) June 10, 2022

https://www.elcorreo.com/deportes/mas-deportes/liga-bultza-rugby-inclusivo-euskadi-20211110114222-nt.html

There are beautiful initiatives that are more than necessary to offer opportunities to all people. And the inclusive rugby Bultza League that begins this Saturday at the El Fango sports center in Bilbao is one of them. Universitario Bilbao, Getxo, Gaztedi and Hernani participate in a competition that is already being held under the auspices of the Basque Rugby Federation.

This inclusive rugby project was born six years ago and it will be now, from this year, when it has the recognition of a federated category. After the institutional act of presentation of this League, which will take place in charge of the Basque Federation and representatives of the Bilbao City Council, the first two matches will be held: Universitario Bilbao Rugby-Hernani (1:00 p.m.) and Getxo-Gaztedi (2:30 p.m.) .

All the effort made by many people in previous years, such as the ‘Harresiak apurtuz’ tournament organized by Getxo, will materialize on an inclusive Saturday where these four teams will project a beautiful rugby party. The federated Bultza League is already a reality. The illusion of previous projects takes another step so that players with different disabilities can enjoy oval sports.

https://ubrbilbaorugby.eus/eu/2021/11/10/sportily-together-erasmus-proiektua/

The work meetings of the Sportily Together Erasmus+ project, funded by the European Commission, will take place in Bilbao from November 12 to 14. In addition to the Universitario Bilbao Rugby Club, the associations of Croatia, Finland, Italy and Slovenia will take part in the meetings https://www.spotproject.eu/

The aim of the project is related to the inclusion realized through sport, and in particular to the compilation of a list of best practices for inclusive sport.

Councilor for Youth and Sports, Itxaso Errota, will take part in the work sessions, explaining the policy of the City of Bilbao to direct people with functional diversity to sports.

The participants of that conference will be at the opening of the BULTZA LIGA (Inclusive Rugby) on November 13 at the Sports Center in Rekalde.

17th February 2022 – During the Transnational Project Meeting held in Zagreb (Croatia), our project partner Komet organized a study visit in the Svetice swimming pool in order to show us how the local Diving Club Geronimo works and delivers courses to people in wheelchair.
A first successful attempt in South-Eastern Europe was developed in Slovenia (IAHD organization) in the beginning of this century, with the collaboration of Geronimo. The methodology was tested on first participants, and lately improved until it became standardized and eligible to be taught elsewhere.
Scuba diving is a highly technically demanding activity that usually prevents people that are not used to or keen on the program such skillful moves, steps, and preparation. The challenge and the innovation is to involve in this activities those populations that are usually perceived as less skillful or able to take on such activities.

The learning process of attempt-mistake-new attempt created a unique methodology, indeed of high quality and easily replicable.