Inclusive Resilience
Creating Environmental Sustainability and Disaster Resilience Through Paralympic Sports
Inclusive by Design
Accessibility and inclusion were embedded in every stage of the project, ensuring that young Paralympic athletes and persons with disabilities could fully participate, learn, and contribute.
Sport for Resilience
Paralympic sport was used as a powerful tool to strengthen environmental awareness, disaster preparedness, and psychological resilience through experiential learning.
Evidence-Based Impact
The project produced concrete, research-informed outputs—including training modules, a resilience handbook, and the Paralympic Anxiety Inventory—to ensure long-term impact.
Project coordinated by Turkish National Paralympic Committee
About the Project
Inclusive Resilience was developed in response to the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake (“Disaster of the Century”), which exposed how lack of accessibility and preparedness increases disaster vulnerability for persons with disabilities. The project connects Paralympic sport, environmental sustainability, and disaster resilience to strengthen institutions and empower young people with disabilities through inclusive learning and evidence-based tools.
Why Inclusive Resilience?
Why this project?
The project addresses gaps in environmental education and psychological preparedness for Paralympic athletes, including the absence of a dedicated anxiety measurement tool. It positions young Paralympic athletes as powerful actors for awareness-building, while ensuring inclusion is practiced through accessible and disability-sensitive approaches.
What we aimed to achieve
Project goals
- Strengthen institutional capacity in environmental sustainability and disaster resilience for organisations working with young Paralympic athletes.
- Empower young people with disabilities to become resilient, environmentally conscious, active citizens through sport-based learning.
- Build a cross-sector network connecting sport, environment, disaster management, and youth work, creating new educational models.
- Deliver three key tools linking environmental awareness, preparedness, and psychological well-being: the Environmental Excellence Training Module, Ready to Respond Handbook, and Paralympic Anxiety Inventory (IPA).
It’s not about project,
it’s about people.
Inclusive Resilience places people—especially young Paralympic athletes and persons with disabilities—at the centre of learning, preparedness, and action. Through sport-based, inclusive, and evidence-informed approaches, the project strengthens environmental awareness, disaster readiness, and psychological resilience.
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Participants engaged in project activities
5
Partner countries collaborating
12
Intellectual outputs & deliverable developed
Inclusive Resilience reflects our shared commitment to building environmental awareness and disaster preparedness through inclusive, evidence-based approaches, ensuring that no one is left behind.
Dr. Ümran Başar
Building Inclusive Resilience in Practice
Inclusive Resilience was implemented through a structured yet flexible approach combining project coordination, inclusive learning design, and evidence-based tools. By integrating environmental sustainability, disaster preparedness, and sport-based methodologies, the project strengthened both institutional capacity and individual resilience.
This approach ensured that inclusion was not an add-on, but a core principle guiding all activities and outputs.
