Project 2: Sports&Diabetes – Diabetes Digital Peer S(up)port

Start date 01-11-2023
End date 31-04-2026

EU Grant: 400.000,00 €

The main
objective of project

Idea of this project is to create a digital solution where knowledge and experiences of doing sport with diabetes can be found and shared. Athletes living with diabetes more often than other athletes find themselves in situations where they can potentially give up on sport. Practicing a sport and managing everyday life can be hard on everybody but people living with T1D have to make approximately 180 more decisions daily then other people.

This digital community would help with making some of these decisions and be a place where people with diabetes, coaches, parents, and experts from the fields of diabetes, sport, medicine, nutrition… could offer peer support: meet, share and get knowledge, experience, tips&tricks, help with problems and answer specific questions to help with encouraging and keeping people living with diabetes in sport.

The goal is to offer a tool where they can seek the knowledge on their own finding the basic and additional resources on doing sport with diabetes, but also share the knowledge in between.

These types of project have the power to bring together fields that don’t often mix. This is the biggest benefit of interfiled projects that gather experts for a specific reason to create something grate that otherwise wouldn’t be possible without a specific initiative that benefits all fields but has to be strongly driven and lead by a wish for change and development.

Professor Felice Strollo, M.D. endocrinologist and diabetologist, an expert working on the Sports&Diabetes – Tackling diabetes with sport project

The focus of the project

is to educate and raise awareness of the stakeholders about diabetes and doing sport.

The main goal

is to address the fact that persons with diabetes type 1 can participate in sports just as any other person who does not have diabetes.

Project partners

European countries to outreach

Different sport sections

61.000.000

million people are living with diabetes in Europe

The main steps of the project

Connecting to the target groups
Using existing connections, the partners will select participants for the first phase in the development of the digital solution
Research
Capturing information from the target groups for digital solution development
Knowledge collection
Broadening and digitalisation of the materials on the topic of sports and diabetes
Developing the digital solution
Design and prototyping preparation for testing
Testing, evaluating and updating of the digital solution
Testing the usability of the digital solution
Dissemination events
Spreading the digital solution among the stakeholders, promoting engagement and usage
Finalising the toolkit
Based on the results of the pilot, a toolkit that provides guidance and resources on a variety of user-centered design techniques