Associazione Baskin ODV

Via Altobello Melone 18/20

26100 Cremona

Baskin Projects

Collaboration with the Anguissola Institute of Cremona for the establishment of a network of purpose among secondary schools in Cremona, cultural bodies, voluntary associations, public institutions for the implementation in the school years 2021/22 and 2022/23 of the project "AT SCHOOL AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN" for the promotion of equal opportunities and the prevention and fight against male violence against women.

The objectives of the project are to:

  • Learning to recognise risk and warning signs related to victims (also of witnessing violence in the family) and potential perpetrators of violence, including psychological violence
  • providing specific paths for teachers and high school students
  • counter prejudices and stereotypes linked to the role of the female gender in the various contexts of life, in particular in school/professional guidance;
  • overcome cultural barriers in the world of sports disciplines;
  • promote the culture of equal opportunities as prevention of violence against women.

The EISI considers training as a qualitative pivot of the sporting experience offered and the main guarantor of inclusive culture.

The decision to invest in training corresponds to the desire to take care of both the Baskin and its community, protecting the identity of the former and preserving the cohesion of the latter, at territorial and national level.

The success of training is not only due to the alleged increase in cultural capital in the actors involved, but also to the new practical experiences actually generated and the number of people taking part on a regular basis. The link between theory and practice, culture and operations, utopia and concreteness, ethics and technology is fundamental in the field of training.

Finality

Training is the breeding ground for the skills of all the actors involved in the development of Baskin, and the condition of a possible continuous improvement.

Both from a technical and an ethical point of view, training is a protective mechanism aimed at improving the quality of Baskin.

It is a strategic lever to mature the inclusive culture within the entire community involved in this sport, starting with all the operators who become somehow the «ambassadors» of Baskin in their own local reality: coaches, referees, field officers, managers, but also at a second level, the trainers themselves.


The Universal Civil Service is the voluntary choice to dedicate some months of its life to the service of defense, unarmed and non-violent, the homeland, education, peace among peoples and the promotion of the founding values of the Italian Republic, through actions for communities and for the territory.

The Universal Civil Service represents an important opportunity for training and personal and professional growth for young people, who are an indispensable and vital resource for the cultural, social and economic progress of the country.

The areas of intervention in Italy and abroad in which the Authorities propose the projects that involve volunteer operators are:

  • Assistance
  • Civil protection
  • Environmental heritage and urban regeneration
  • Historical, artistic and cultural heritage
  • Education and promotion of culture, landscape, environment, sport, sustainable and social tourism
  • Mountain farming, social agriculture and biodiversity
  • Promotion of peace among peoples, nonviolence and unarmed defence promotion and protection of human rights; development cooperation
  • Promotion of Italian culture abroad and support to Italian communities abroad.


This section contains the foundations, the path, the data, the initiatives of universal civil service. With the Dlgs. March 6, 2017, n. 40, the universal civil service aims to accommodate all requests for participation by young people who, by voluntary choice, intend to have an experience of great educational and civil value, also able to give them useful skills for placing in the workforce.

ENOBA - European Network Baskin Academy is a partnership aimed at strengthening the coherence of Baskin training and the cohesion of Baskin trainers in Europe.


On the international scene, Italy and a few other countries had been at the forefront of education in the 1970s for people with disabilities, surpassing the model of Special Schools and inaugurating that of Inclusive Schools that is now spreading at European and global level.

But today the challenge is to avoid keeping within the culture and inclusive practice of the school system, extending this new cultural norm to the whole of society, as in the sports sector.

Among the current successful experiments, the Italian case of BASKIN is one of these maximum expressions that proposes a model of INCLUSIVE SPORT, recognized by the Foundation Design For All, the Italian Ministry of Education, by the Italian Paralympic Committee and also by various European Universities.


The strategic work plan, based on training engineering, is to actively involve the partner in the adoption of shared training methodologies for the training of new Baskin coaches, referees, field officers but also physical education teachers.

The project design plans:

  • On the one hand exploit the long experience of Italy
  • On the other hand enrich with the particular working context of the partners.


This project is part of the overall objective of going beyond the Special Sports model thanks to the development of an INCLUSIVE SPORTS CULTURE in Europe: Not only OLYMPIC GAMES for able-bodied and PARALYMPIC GAMES for disabled people, ... but also "ALL YMPIC GAMES" for everyone!


This is a cultural challenge, but at the same time directly linked to the actual possibility of experimenting with concrete good practices.

This is why the specific objective of this project is to exploit BASKIN as a CONCRETE MODEL of inclusive sport, to strengthen a EUROPEAN NETWORK (isolated and dispersed partners that are already implementing Baskin activities at local level) focused on the development of a BASKIN ACADEMY and its multiplier effect on the local community in cultural and operational terms.


The general objectives of the project are:

1. Formalising and structuring the European Baskin network and promoting the exchange of practices

2. Create an academy of the European Baskin Network with training meetings for trainers and coaches in Baskin

3. Design and build a web platform for distance learning.

Held in Pesaro from Sept. 7-11 was Euro Hoop for All, an international project organized by Convention Bureau Terre Ducali, a product of the collaboration of Giorgio Gandolfi - founder of Giorgio Gandolfi Sport Marketing, Events and Communication, and Dr. Marco Cardinaletti - founder of Eurocube Srl.

The event, held in conjunction with the European Week of Sport, featured about 200 young athletes (disabled and non-disabled) from 12 teams from 8 countries: Italy, Turkey, Spain, Croatia, Germany, Russia, Greece and France. Sports but also educational and cultural activities designed for young people helped break down physical and mental barriers related to disability allowing the creation of new friendships in a meaningful and important social context.

For baskin it was the first international tournament with the presence of the Sansebasket team from Cremona, Orea from Nantes, Bees Pesaro and Arion from the island of Crete.

It was a busy but enriching week that saw in the morning conferences on the relationship between Sport and Disability, Health, Work and School (with the presence of Alexy Valet and Cremona's Fausto Capellini and Cesare Beltrami) and in the afternoon basketball and baskin games in the fascinating arena of the Pesaro Arena.

On Wednesday afternoon, a representative from each basketball team-after a quick recap of the rules-tried their hand at baskin having to combine basketball player skills with the challenges that baskin poses to its practitioners.

Involving was the meeting on Sport and Disability in which there was, in addition to Lorenzo Marcantognini (present in Cremona in the first game of the national amputee team organized by the CSI), Claire (President International Federation In Adapted Physical Activity - INSHEA) and Baskin Association President Antonio Bodini who involved the boys of the Spanish Barcelona team and the German Brose Baskets team on their "initialization" to baskin. Many interested boys and some very motivated managers to export the experience to their city.

At the end of the event in the center of the court the baskin teams awarded prizes by the basketball teams participating in the tournament.

A beautiful - and challenging - experience that allowed many kids to learn about baskin, to see it and some to practice it. Many thanks to Giorgio Gandolfi and Dario Amati for the opportunity.

It formally ends with the end of February 2022 the project "SPORTperTUTTI: inclusive sport in Cremona"-which has seen the collaboration of several Cremonese sports realities led by UISP-in partnership with, among others, the Baskin Association and the Municipality of Cremona - Educational Policies Service in addition to a very large and qualified network of supporters.

The president of the Baskin Association, Antonio Bodini, wished to thank and pay tribute to his collaborators and those who actively promoted the project, with a convivial moment attended by Laura Carini, Goffredo Iachetti (also president of EISI), Fausto Cappellini, Antonio Cigoli, Andrea Tolomini and Anna Feroldi of Uisp Cremona accompanied by Alberta Schiavi, representing the Educational Policies Service of the City of Cremona.

"The focus of the SPORTperTUTTI project was the promotion of sports and the active participation of children and young people in an inclusive context," says Antonio Bodini, president of the Baskin Association, "and that is why our adherence was immediately very convinced. The mission of our association, in fact, is precisely to spread the culture of inclusion, starting from the ability of sport to convey educational content. Thanks also to the availability of the UISP Sports Promotion Body of Cremona, with which the collaboration has always been very active, we were able to carry out the project despite the difficult period due to the pandemic and find ways to safely continue such an important activity. We reorganized the activities, adapting the proposals to current conditions, finding the cooperation of those who, like us, recognize the usefulness of motor activity for people with disabilities. A goal achieved thanks to everyone's commitment."

"This project understood sport in a system that does not necessarily belong to the classic system of competitive performance, but within which elements of sociability and aggregation can be found," comments Anna Ferioldi, president of UISP of Cremona. "Among the educational agencies, in addition to schools and families, should be counted sports clubs and associations, sports promotion organizations and all bodies involved in sports. Sport, in fact, represents a tool potentially capable of developing the psychosocial and physical dimensions of the person."

The objectives of the project, aimed at children and young people between the ages of 6 and 19 (up to 25 in the case of disabilities), were to increase the opportunities to start playing a sport as an educational and growth moment. But above all, the project strengthened the networks already created in recent years between schools and educational agencies and sports clubs.

The world of sports, with its many facets, requires an increasingly in-depth look that highlights the needs and skills of figures such as coaches, parents and managers, i.e., those who accompany young sportsmen and women along their path of growth, both sporting and human.

The project, presented by UISP in close synergy with the City of Cremona, saw the partnership composed of ASD Pepo Team, Sansebasket Ass Dil, Baskin Association, ASD Rugby Lions, CSI of Cremona and Friends of Gianni and Massimiliano Association.

"I'm coming too! Yes, you are!": athlete transportation and inclusion in the Baskin Association project


Among the many projects aimed at social inclusion supported by the Foundation, "I'm coming too! Yes, you do!" was presented by the Baskin Association specifically to facilitate the transportation of athletes to practices and games. Thus meeting the needs of families and focusing on the greatest possible autonomy for boys and girls with disabilities. Dozens engaged in the 14 active teams in the Cremona area.

The Baskin Association project thus received a total of 2.500 euros in funding from the City of Cremona Foundation.

Funds that, in the intent of volunteers and managers, increase even more team spirit among athletes, disabled and non-disabled, male and female.

More time spent together, in close contact even off the field. Yet another antidote that the sport has produced since its founding against the risk of isolation of the most fragile kids.  With the project "I'm coming too! Yes, you are!" supported by the Foundation, the Baskin Association supports the necessary expenses for its activities. Adds Bodini, "One of the services that we believe we have done for society is to demonstrate that inclusion on and off the field is by no means a utopia."

The project promotes the right of people with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in sporting activities.

The aim of the project is to educate an active and inclusive lifestyle to promote a culture in which more and more people, young able-bodied and young disabled people can discover the richness of each other.

To show that "diversity" of gender, ability, origin, culture, ... constitute a value and not an obstacle. If sport represents the metaphor of life, BASKIN represents the metaphor of a life in which "Nobody is excluded".

The project promotes the practice of baskin in schools and sports associations throughout the country.

Baskin is a new sporting activity that is inspired by basketball but has special and innovative features. A set of 10 rules governs the game, giving it incredibly dynamic and unpredictable characteristics.

This new sport is designed to allow able-bodied and disabled youngsters to play in the same team (made up of both boys and girls!). In fact, baskin allows the active participation of players with any type of disability (physical and/or mental) that allows them to shoot a basket. The rigid structure of official sports is thus challenged, and this proposal becomes a social laboratory.

The 10 rules emphasise the contribution of each boy/girl within the team: indeed, joint success really depends on everyone. This adaptation, which personalises the responsibility of each player during the game, positively overcomes the spontaneous tendency towards a 'caring' attitude sometimes present in proposals for physical activities for disabled people.

The baskin rules adapt: 1) the material (use of several baskets: two normal ones; two lower side baskets; possibility of replacing the normal ball with one of a different size and weight); 2) the space (protected zones provided to ensure shooting in the side baskets); 3) the rules (each player has a role defined by his motor skills and consequently has a direct opponent of the same level. These roles are numbered from 1 to 5 and have their own rules); 4) the assignments (possible assignment of a tutor, a team player who can more or less directly accompany the actions of a disabled teammate).

The able-bodied children also benefit from this course. In fact, in baskin they learn to fit into and organise a group that has different degrees of ability within it. They thus have to develop new communication skills, bringing their creativity into play and establishing even very intense emotional relationships. Moreover, sharing sporting objectives with disabled children allows them to appreciate the richness and capabilities that diversity brings.

With regard to the disabled children, after six years of activity we can say that the results achieved are considerable: their self-confidence has increased, their ability to combine sacrifice with pleasure, their psychomotor skills and their ability to interact with children and adults have grown.

The implementation of this project involves organising 100 baskin matches in 20 Italian cities and then concluding the event with a tournament in which the best representatives from each region will be admitted, to be held in Rho-Milan as an event connected to Expo 2015.

The Vodafone Foundation launches OSO - Ogni Sport Oltre (Every Sport Beyond) - the first digital community open to everyone to bring people with disabilities closer to sport. OSO is the first digital platform that puts online all the useful information for those who want to practice sport in Italy and create a community of users among people with disabilities, families, instructors and sports professionals and all those who are passionate about sport.

The Vodafone Foundation's goal is to significantly increase the number of people with disabilities practising a sport, creating a practical, digital and usable tool to systemise all the realities that deal with sport and disability through the ognisportoltre.it platform and the OSO App, available for Android and iOS.

The project "Baskin: The Third Way. A sport model designed for everyone' provides for the development of baskin throughout the country with a large part dedicated to the training of trainers, coaches, and an implementation of the facilities and materials useful for the practice of this sport, such as balls, side baskets, and double-numbered shirts.

After having landed in different parts of Italy and Europe, baskin now has the opportunity to continue its growth and development in the Italian school system as well.

Carrying out afternoon baskin workshops (a sporting activity inspired by basketball) in the school environment. This is the aim of the project 'With baskin you can' by Cooperativa Sociale Cittattiva Onlus, which involves one thousand pupils, 150 of whom with BES, from five secondary schools in the municipalities of Chieri, Trofarello and Cambiano, in the province of Turin.

Specialised professional educators and sports instructors, in cooperation with teachers and parents, will carry out integrated sports activities involving all students of the schools involved.

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