Hi everyone, I’m Matteo and I’m participating in WINS Project!
I’m a Physical Education teacher in Bologna, Italy, and the non-formal education was an important part of my lessons during the past year. Knowing new people in Amarante helped me trying new approaches of teaching, that I immediately used when I came back to Bologna. Children have the great potential to adapt themselves to the environment, so was easy to propose them new activities.
I think teachers like me have to try different ways to reach the educational goal for children, and WINS helped me to have a new prospective and apply that to all my classes (I had 12 classes this year, children from 6 to 10). I can’t wait to participate at Badalona Camp for the last part of WINS project and learn more about non-formal education in sport! See you there!
Hello, I’m Michele. I am one of the participants in the WINS project from Italian team. I am living and working in Cremona near Milan. I am working with disable people and teenagers.I’m involved in some activities with teenagers like inclusive rugby, fencing and boxing (these all sports are with people with or without disabilities). I also work with another co-operative with autism in my municipality to coordinate a program for teenagers on their weekends. I was also coordinator of Summer Camp for some teenagers with autism last year (I worked for that project 8 years). I have been 6 years coordinator for an inclusive playroom “Lo Stregatto”. I collaborated with others realities and people to create it. We were organizing games to give everyone the opportunity to play in the playroom (with or without autism). There was a group of children with autism (from 6 to 11 years old) who were accompanied by their psychologists to observe their first experiences of socializing with other children in a regular competition, not in an outpatient setting (where they were trying to learn social skills and not only). I used to be the coordinator of “Regular” Summer Camps with children and I have also worked with children and teenagers in extracurricular classes. I was also responsible in a project with teenagers for the creation of an editorial board based on theirs interests for the work in the communications (interviews or meetings with experts in this sector).
One of the greatest thing that I could learn with Wins, is the knowledge of different projects in different part of Europe (Italy, Portugal, Spain). It was very interesting to know the good practices from others people and it was very inspiring for my job! I have some ideas for my activities with my users, disabilities and also for some projects that I hope I will be able to realize with other reality in my city, in Italy and in Europe. We can only learn from other people and improve ourselves at any time…. This experience in Wins is the proof.
