European Youth Games for the Disabled „Emil Open“

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Hundreds of people supported the Paralympians with a b...

27.06.2021 11:31

During the jubilee year of the Emil Open, the Emil Endowment Fund decided to involve hundreds of people and support all handicapped athletes with a huge applause. On Wednesday, he shot a video, where hundreds of people applaud the same melody at one time. The video will fly from the center of Brno to the Olympic rings in Tokyo to encourage Czech Paralympians

The weekend was full of fun, the athletes got to know ...

27.06.2021 09:18

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The participants enjoyed the accompanying program. It was prepared by the Emil Open in cooperation with the League of Wheelchair Users. What was waiting for the athletes this year?

Emil Open 2021 is over, and support is also sent to To...

27.06.2021 07:11

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Brno has had its jubilee 10th Emil Open. 700 athletes from 13 countries arrived. They all competed in five summer sports. On the first day, they also sent joint support to the Paralympians to Tokyo. Next year, the games will take place on June 22th and 26th, 2022. Today, disabled athletes sent heartfelt greetings from all Brno sports venues. With this gesture, they expressed support for the communities affected by the tornado.

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What is Emil Open?

The European Youth Games for the Disabled are an international and a social gathering of young people with disabilities.

The expected number of international participants and the sport and accompanying programme make the event unique and of a European format.

The Games follow on from the previous successful editions.

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Vendula Veselá DOZP Všebořice

I would like to thank everyone who helped organise this year´s Emil Open. Thank you for a great organisation, atmosphere, plastic raincoats during the Opening Ceremony, perfect sporting competitions, beautiful accommodation and very tasty meals, transport, all accompanying programme, which our children enjoyed. Our big thank you also goes to the volunteer Dominika Ulmanová, who took a good care of us during our whole stay at the Pod Palackého vrchem dormitory - she was...

Gašper Tanšek Center IRIS Ljubljana (Slovenija)

Firstly, I must thank you for the beautiful time that we had in Brno. The organisation and people were on a really high level - everything was organised and well-prepared so we had no problems during our stay in Brno. Our students were excited and had much fun and are already asking when (not if) we are going back next year. We hope there will be place for our team next year too. Thank you again for all your help through our correspondence via email.

Zuzana Kočáriková

I would like to thank you once more for the opportunity to participate in the Emil Open. It was such a great experience for us. We met so many wonderful people. Thank you for doing all this for our kids.

Best regards, Kočáriková from Piešťany :)

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Emil Open's main missions

Many disabled children dream of doing sports and enjoy being able to move freely. Sport is a joy, a passion as well as relaxation. It strengthens bonds with our friends, allows us to forget everyday worries, it is an important part of our lives.

Therefore, we want to give children and youth with a disability the same opportunity as everybody else. With this they can truly understand that true effort and determinations makes sense and will be supported. Thanks to the European Games they will get the opportunity to play sports with their able-bodied athletes and together remove unnecessary prejudice and bashfulness.

The European Games will allow the participants to show their best and to either regain or boost their confidence. Happiness and tears of joy will be the imaginary medal for everybody.

To enable amateur disabled athletes to compete

and get inspiration from other experienced athletes from eleven other European countries. By competing with one another the registered athletes become models for other athletes with disabilities. They also have a chance to be appreciated publicly for their performances.

Maximum support for the social inclusion of children and young with disabilities

through sport events designed for mixed groups of both disabled and able-bodied participants. Another important part is the involvement of volunteers from mainstream schools.

An opportunity to challenge oneself in various sport events

and to experience a sport event of a higher format. For many participants, it will be their very first contact with their foreign mates and their first time competing in an international event. Thanks to the intensive sport experience, the Games will contribute on a European scale not only to sport but also personal development of the individual athlete. Besides sport competitions, the Games mainly represent an opportunity to have friendly gatherings of young people with disabilities from different European countries.

To give the public an insight about adaptive sports

with the aim of eliminating prejudice and barriers. There are over a million people with disabilities in the Czech Republic. This issue is not often positively perceived by public, although sport and complex rehabilitation significantly improve the mental and physical condition of a disabled individual in most cases of post-injury traumas.

10 previous
successful editions

Have a look at what the previous European Games organised by the Emil Foundation were like.

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Organiser: Emilova sportovní, z.s

Emilova sportovní, z.s. is an association founded by the Emil Foundation to support the development of physical activities of the public and people with disabilities, the organization of sporting events and the establishment of sports clubs.

The Emil Foundation (Nadační fond Emil) is a non-profit organisation that assists physically disabled children and young adults in their sporting involvement primarily through direct financial aid.

To date, over 8000 athletes and teams have benefited from the work of the Emil Foundation. Its primary mission is to be a symbol of effective assistance to these people throughout the Czech Republic, help them overcome their own barriers, make new friends and discover 'their own'sense of life through various activities.

The Emil Foundation is a long-standing organisation. It is well known among people with a disability thanks to the international sport events it successfully organised. Since 2009 over 3100 athletes with their coaches, teachers, families from 27 countries have participated in the 6 editions of the European Games. In 2016 the Emil Foundation organised the IWAS U23 World Games Prague 2016.

Tyto projekty byly vždy realizovány s vyrovnaným rozpočtem. NF Emil má díky tomu zkušenosti s finančním i projektovým vedením mezinárodně významných projektů.

Emil Open

Organising Committee

info@emilopen.cz www.emilopen.cz

Pavel Zbožínek

Organising Committee President

T: +420 602 720 518

E: zbozinek@emilopen.cz

Vojtěch Kocůrek

Organising Committee Vice President

T: +420 605 940 891

E: kocurek@emilopen.cz

Emilova sportovní, z.s.

Malinovského náměstí 603/4 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic IČO 067 07 785 Administered by the Regional Court in Brno, 23497 L www.emilova-sportovni.cz www.emilnadace.cz