The next is an excerpt on UEFA’s Euro 2024 Volunteer Tandem Programme that’s impressed and primarily based off of the Particular Olympics World Video games Berlin 2023 Host City Program.
Variety and inclusion is one in every of 4 areas of motion within the social pillar of UEFA’s EURO 2024 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) technique, making certain that the event is open to all and that each social group may be part of the festivities.
This contains offering entry and integration to folks with disabilities, and Cologne is placing a specific give attention to this by way of the Volunteer Tandem programme.
Ellena, UEFA EURO 2024 volunteer and Tandem companion:
“The additional effort to allow the participation of individuals with mental disabilities from the Volunteer Group in Cologne could be very fascinating. I’m very comfortable to help the inclusive Volunteer Programme by being a Tandem companion.”
Inspiration for the initiative got here throughout the Particular Olympics World Video games Berlin 2023, the biggest inclusive sporting occasion on this planet. The Host City Program throughout that occasion, which welcomed the athletes to 200 places throughout Germany, was the biggest communal inclusion challenge in Germany’s historical past, and motivated EURO 2024 organisers in Cologne to comply with this instance of inclusivity.
