The world of disability is at the center of a perhaps slow and late but decisive evolution, aimed at adapting social and cultural systems to people with greater fragility: in compliance with an unavoidable principle of equity and in the interest of the subjects directly involved, but also for reasons of collective and general advantage. Disability, in fact, is the paradigm of an increasingly long-lived and elderly society, in which morbidity, inconvenience and reductions in psycho-physical efficiency affect many people, even more so considering those in charge of care. Reducing physical and cultural barriers, making real and virtual places accessible, facilitating assistance therefore means building better environments and living conditions for everyone, regardless of different levels of health.

In this process, sport is recognized as an extraordinary potential tool: in fact, sporting practice, in addition to bringing significant benefits on a therapeutic and rehabilitative level, gives a strong boost to socialization. The notoriety acquired by athletes and sports figures such as Alex Zanardi, Bebe Vio or Giusy Versace, just to name a few, reveals how Paralympic activities have gradually taken on a visibility similar to that of competitions for able-bodied people, a theme well highlighted in "The Super disabled. Analysis of a stereotype", a publication edited by Marco Ferrazzoli, Francesca Gorini and Francesco Pieri (published by Lu:Ce with the patronage of Cnr and, in the second edition, Rai for social issues) which analyzes the ongoing shift towards greater inclusiveness.

Starting from this premise, this project, financed by Procter & Gamble Italy, intends to: verify how much sports practice is actually usable and enjoyed by young people with disabilities, through a qualitative survey conducted together with families, operators, social agencies and institutions; carry out research that verifies and illustrates, with scientific rigor combined with an informative and communicative approach, problems and critical issues, social and territorial gaps, good practices to be valorised. In this sense, the project aims to act as a driving force to raise awareness in the sporting world towards the practical and educational inclusion of all physicalities. Today, clubs and structures are not always prepared and sport risks not seizing an opportunity if it does not review the achievement of a competitive result as its sole objective. Sport must always focus on the diffusion of its culture and practice by people with disabilities, not only in the competitive key linked to the Paralympic disciplines, but by enhancing itself as a catalytic agent of inclusion and relationship processes in associations, clubs, territorial realities, and schools.