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Riding Together - Solidarity on Horseback
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

To promote sport and leisure activities for all is key to enhance human well-being and also a powerful tool to promote social inclusion. Equestrian activities, today accessible to an exclusive minority, are certainly a good example of activities worth spreading, since they have an important health-enhancing effect.This project will create, implement and disseminate an European model for a social enterprise dedicated to horse-mediated inclusion – a model for riding centers integrating a sustainable program of social inclusion through activities with horses. The model will be tested through the implementation of various pilot programs in places with distinct economic and social contexts, in Portugal, Italy and the UK. An associated training module that defines the knowledge, skills and competences that are essential in a team involved in the creation of such inclusion programs will also be developed and tested. Finally, a research project will study the effects of horse-mediated activities on health and social inclusion, taking the pilot programs as case studies.A social documentary on the inclusion programs implemented within this Collaborative Partnership and a best practices guide on the creation of a sustainable enterprise dedicated to horse-mediated inclusion will be created and disseminated. The latter will be a tool to create successful inclusive riding centers that are economically sustainable by design. This is a need felt all across Europe, from small local clubs to large institutions, that recognize the benefits of horse-mediated activities to promote social inclusion and want to actively engage in such programs. Hence, this Collaborative Partnership will help and encourage other organizations to replicate such enterprises in local contexts, thereby planting a seed to the full exploitation of the project outcomes at a global level, and ensuring its long lasting impact.
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