Last 11th October we have been present in the 21st edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels.
Our presence in this huge cohesion policy event, in representation of ADCS Carvalhais, was related with our intervention as speakers in the workshop session “Equal Play: breaking the basketball glass ceiling”.
In our intervention we had the opportunity to show how, in our sub-region in the North of Portugal, we have grown female basketball from 1 player in 2008 to 111 players in the current season.
We also shown and explained how Erasmus+ program helped us on the process of growing the number of female players, because in 2015 we had in our sub-region a sport project called “EGPIS – Encouraging girls participation in sports”, in 2019 we enter in other project called “EPIC Basket – Equal opportunities through inclusive cooperation in Basketball” and currently we are implementing other project in the region called “Empowered Female Coaches of Basketball”… all this Erasmus+ Sport projects are on the same topic of Equal Opportunities, Encouraging and Empower Females in Sport in general and in Basketball in particular. For us the participation on this Erasmus+ Sport Projects made all the difference and helped us to bring new ideas to our sub-region and generate a big impact on the grow women’s basketball but also in other sports.
