Workshop Liptovský Ján

The last joint meeting again in workshop format took place in Liptovský Ján, Slovakia. The location was chosen because of the best transport accessibility for all partners. The workshop was focused on the issues of organizing tournaments, fundraising, promotion, marketing and attracting new human resources to the sport of boccia. The workshop was led by two experienced experts - Hana Mačová, who has long been co-organizing one of the largest international boccia tournaments in Europe called Boccia Tatra Cup. She practically presented the whole process of organizing the tournament, how to effectively raise financial resources and cooperation for the development of the sport and organizing tournaments. In cooperation with her, a second expert, Samuel Andrejčík, who as a long-time athlete with a disability, presented individual pitfalls that can occur for disabled athletes at events and how to avoid problems from the position of the organizer. The workshop was also complemented by a representative of the Emil's Sports Organisation, Vojtěch Kocůrek, who introduced all participants to the issues related to online marketing and, above all, presented a number of practical ways to achieve the desired results in the online promotion of disability sport. Thus, the issues of the workshop were primarily theoretically based, enriched with rich discussion and the participants took away a number of new and important insights for the development of this environment.