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JIDP Phase 5 – Train the Trainer Program & International Congress on Social Inclusion Through Judo | Madrid, Spain | 10–12 July 2025
As participants return to their home countries, we take a moment to reflect on what was truly a milestone event in the development of adaptive judo coaching across Europe. The past few days in Madrid marked a pivotal step forward for inclusive sport, education, and collaboration—fueled by the shared passion of coaches, educators, and project partners. read full article.........
New App Coming Soon!
We are thrilled to announce that the launch of our JIDP Healthy Eating App is just around the corner — and we can’t wait to share it with you! read full article....................
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What is JIDP
JIDP is an innovative project whose goal is to use sport to promote the social and cultural integration of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID).
Research has shown that participation in judo can have both social and health benefits for people with ID. With this potential in mind, this project has been undertaken with the aim of expanding the presence and reach of judo programs for people with ID to the greatest extent possible to make them accessible to the largest number of people.
The project will promote a healthy nutrition strategy along with physical activity in an effort to improve the quality of life of adolescents with ID. In order to accomplish this, a smartphone app will be created in the context of the project, and this tool will be applicable for use with other sports in future projects.
The project will train adapted judo instructors and help expand their knowledge, leading to a ripple effect of benefits after the intervention is finished. This will be accomplished via training meetings and through the creation of a virtual training platform that will help guarantee the training of future adapted judo instructors.... read more...
JIDP can boast the participation of eight partners from seven European countries, they are Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Poland – meet the team.
The role of six of the partners will be to develop a judo program and to collect information to help improve its implementation, while the two institutional partners will help in the communication and dissemination of the results.
The program will benefit more than 120 adolescents with ID with direct participation in judo programs and more than 18 instructors who will participate in direct training during the program, along with more than 80 future instructors who will be able to receive training through the virtual platform.