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On October 11, 2022, the Partners of the PARA-LIMITS participated in a transnational blended meeting in Bucharest, Romania, to discuss the progresses of the previous phases of the project and to plan the following ones (https://paralimits.eu). The Para-Limits project is co-funded by the European Erasmus+ Sport programme and focuses on high-level athletes, Paralympians included, who seek to break down barriers and cultivate their talent with no limits.

The Europe-wide Para-limits strategic partnership encompassing universities, sports bodies, innovative organization, and EAS, the European Dual Career network, intends to achieve greater social inclusion through sport and higher education, by enabling high-level athletes to achieve their sporting and educational careers, regardless of their disability. In administering a 84-item questionnaire to 160 student-athletes, equally representing student-athletes with and without disability, Para-limits uncovered the differences of dual career barriers between these groups. To achieve an effective integration of paralympic student-athletes at university level, Para-Limits intends to propose a series of recommendations to try overcoming these barriers and to foresee low-cost dual career solutions to be adopted in different Member States, thus contributing to the European policies on social inclusion of high-performance athletes with disabilities. Furthermore, the Para-limits platform is expected to be available in the first months of 2023.