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Sport for All: Breaking Barriers Together — What Happened in Szigetszentmárton

7 days. 44 young people. Six countries. One riverside camp on the Danube.



From 11 to 19 May 2026, the Budapest Association for International Sports hosted the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange "Sport for All – Breaking Barriers Together" at Martoni Tábor in Szigetszentmárton, Hungary. Participants came from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain — and together they explored one of the most important questions in sport today: how do we make physical activity truly accessible to everyone?


The exchange was built around adaptive and inclusive sport — but not just as a concept to discuss. Participants lived it.



Every day started with movement and ended with reflection. In between, the group worked through non-formal workshops on diversity, discrimination and access, played and tested existing adaptive sport formats, and spent serious time learning how to design and facilitate their own inclusive activities. By the second half of the week, participants were running sessions for each other — planning, leading and debriefing games they had created from scratch.


There were also intercultural evenings where each country shared food, music and stories. River activities on the Danube. Night games. Long conversations around the fire. The kind of connection that doesn't happen in a conference room.



The project also had a clear thread of green practice running through it — sustainable travel choices were encouraged, especially for participants coming from neighbouring countries, and environmental responsibility was woven into daily habits at the camp.


Every participant completed a Youthpass — the official Erasmus+ certificate of non- formal learning — documenting the competences they developed across the week. From communication and teamwork to intercultural awareness and civic participation, the learning was real and recorded.



But the most visible output of the exchange is something more tangible: the sport activities participants designed themselves.


During the exchange, small international groups were challenged to design their own inclusive sport activities around themes like communication, trust, inclusion and diversity. The games had to work for mixed abilities, require no special equipment, and be easy to replicate anywhere.



Below are the activities they created. Each one was tested, refined and facilitated by the participants themselves on Day 6 of the programme.



This project was funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ programme, as part of BAIS's ongoing accreditation for youth mobility. It would not have happened without our five partner organisations:


● ASOCIACIÓN DEPORTIVA Y CULTURAL ENTREJUEGOS — Spain

● Champions Factory — Bulgaria

● Inspira! Association — Portugal

● Asociația Se Poate — Romania

● Level Up — Poland



What comes next


The exchange is over, but the work isn't. Each sending organisation will run a small dissemination activity back home — sharing what they learned, the games they created, and the ideas they brought back with them.


If you want to use any of the games below in your own work, you're welcome to. That's exactly the point.


Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

 
 
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