THE FIRST FESTIVAL OF SPORT SUCCESSFULLY ORGANIZED

FACULTY OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO
ERASMUS + SPORT „MATCH - SOCIAL INCLUSION OPPORTUNITIES“

Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Sarajevo has successfully organized the First Festival of Sports which took place on the 25th October 2018 at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. The First Festival of Sports was organized with the participation of over 100 children and youth from different organizations and institutions which work with children and youth who are disabled, with special needs and those that come from endangered groups.
The First Festival of Sport was organized as one of the activities within the implementation of Erasmus + Sport Project MATCH – Social Inclusion Opportunities, for whose implementation since 2017 Faculty of Sports and Physical Education is responsible. The aim of the project is to establish and promote sport as a unique educational tool within the activities of social inclusion, to be precise, to motivate those coming from all level of society towards acceptance.
Keeping in mind of what is aimed to achieve, the teachers and students of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education have decided to organize a Festival of Sports as a one day event, securing the participation of children with disabilities, special needs, and those coming from endangered groups together with other children and of course students.
The teachers from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education, University of Sarajevo have created special games and sport activities and played and had fun together with the Faculty students. The desired result was to lure the smile on every face, but as well to educate students of the Faculty in how to work with children from these specific groups of society.
Guided by the dance rhythm of a gymnastic club Olimpik where children from the Club Olimpik and Centre for Blind and Visually Impaired danced together, followed by colorful playing areas especially prepared for children from Swimming Club SPID and Association Colibri, and a goal ball match where young people from Centre for Blind and Visually impaired demonstrated and played this game together with the students from the Faculty, ending with the inclusion and football champions form the school of football Respekt, the First Festival of Sport enabled everybody to play together and by having fun accept each other as teammates. Every participant was a winner and therefore at the end of each sport activity was awarded with a golden medal.

The Faculty of Sports would like to extend its sincere gratitude to event organizations and institutions without whose participation the First Sports Festival could not be organized. The UNSA Faculty of Sports and Physical Education will continue to work on the similar activities, so the organization of the Second Festival of Sports could make a greater effect.