During the presentation ceremony, the managing director of the Fundación Jovenes y Deporte, Sonia Bejarano, thanked the involvement of both LaLiga as the main sponsor and the different sports federations in Extremadura that will carry out their different projects that begin this November.
Bejarano also wanted to remember that this program was born from the need to know the participation of women in the framework of sport and physical activity in our region, which already in 2018, with a study by the University of Extremadura, led to ‘I+DXT ‘, whose objective is focused on preventing early abandonment of sports practice in women, in addition to empowering, making visible and promoting the practice of physical-sports activities, as well as stimulating and promoting their training in the sports field in areas such as management, technical, refereeing and/or management personnel, among others.
In this sense, the managing director of the FJyD emphasized the transversal importance of this type of initiative when it comes to achieving effective equality between women and men at all levels, undoubtedly contributing to the empowerment of women in this and any other sector and favoring their access to management and leadership positions so that sport in Extremadura continues to be written in feminine terms and recalled, in the same way, that it is necessary for all agents to be involved in achieving this objective, as well as in the implementation of awareness, education and visibility campaigns so that new generations understand that women can and should occupy these positions on an equal footing.
Participating Federations
In order to develop the I+DXT 2022 project, the Extremadura Sports Federations that submitted their applications to the open call months ago, were able to choose between launching projects in the Event modalities, Theoretical-practical Multidays or the creation of an Equality Plan for the entity, with 4,500 euros being the amount allocated to each of the selected projects. In the same way, and as an essential requirement, the participating Federations must have a Sports Director to carry out their duties within the framework of the program (with the necessary qualifications and training), in addition to complying with current regulations and legislation in various areas.
selected
At the presentation ceremony it was announced that, after the evaluations of the projects received, in this year the selected ones are the projects of the Extremeñas Federations of Rescue and First Aid, Swimming, Table Tennis, Archery, Cycling and Athletics.
The Extremeña Archery Federation, as explained by its president, Raquel de San Macario Sánchez, has opted for the Multiday line, organizing a ‘RFETA 1 Judge Course’, training that will be given online and in person at the acts of the National Center for Sports Modernization Ciudad Deportiva de Cáceres.
The Extremaduran Table Tennis Federation also opts for a calendar with several dates, debuting in this year, which opts for the Event format, with the aim of making its sport known and opening the possibility for new women to start be part of it, as explained by Verónica Pablos Román, Technical Manager of the R&DXT program of said federation. Thus, the ‘Women’s Table Tennis Open – Women and Sports’ will be held on November 19 and 20 at the Covered Fronton of the Ciudad Deportiva de Cáceres.
Another federation that makes its debut in the program is the Extremeña Federation of Rescue and First Aid, also leaning towards the Event format, will organize the ‘I Days of rescue and first aid in women’ in the Sports City of Cáceres. Training and competition will be the two sections that will be the protagonists of these conferences, as explained by Aroa Mirón Rodríguez, general secretary of the Federation.
Likewise, the Extremaduran Swimming Federation will once again unite training and competition in the ‘III Women’s Swimming Clinic – Complete Swimmer’, which will take place on November 26 and 27, at the Ciudad Deportiva de Cáceres National Sports Technification Center, complementing the tests in the heated pool with talks and workshops aimed at improving the theoretical-practical knowledge of the participants as announced by Ana María Falcón Álvarez, Sports Director of the I+DXT program in her Federation.
Finally, the president of the Extremadura Athletics Federation, Antonio Campos Casares, and the person in charge of Technification of the Extremadura Cycling Federation, Carlos Cobos Márquez, announced that their respective federations are taking advantage of the ‘Development of an Equality Plan’ , with the main objective of taking into account the needs of women and men to organize and design the operation of the entire federative structure, thus achieving a more plural, inclusive and diverse entity.
All the information in this regard and the calendar of activities can be found on the website http://www.fundacionjd.com/idxt/.
