Our organizations

Since 2003 we have been helping disabled children to play sports

Emil was established in 2003 as a project of the Czech Paralympic Committee. After a successful start, in 2009 it officially became a foundation that provides direct financial assistance to children and young people with disabilities. To date, the Emil Foundation has supported over 8,000 individual athletes and sports teams.

We help, inspire, cheer

In 2018, Emil founded the association, which began to actively engage in sports and physical activities for young people with disabilities. This divided its activities into charity and sports parts. This significantly expanded its activities.

Your event, our story

We organize our own events and we want to organize yours too! We also reach out to our disabled friends for cooperation. Thanks to our own production activities we raise additional funds for the foundation and the development of our activities.

Education, interaction, entertainment

The lack of opportunities in education for coaches, athletes, volunteers, the public and others, as well as the limited range of educational programs, led us to establish this educational institution. The founder and chairman of the board of directors is the icon of disabled sports Prof. Hana Válková.

Our projects

European Disabled Youth Games

Our traditional and biggest sporting event is the Emil Open Summer Games. Every year it attract hundreds of young aspiring athletes as well as children who have never played sports before.

Winter Games for Disabled Youth

With a pilot project from the Visegrad Fund programme, we have given the South Bohemian Region the opportunity to create a new tradition of the Emil Open Winter Games.

Emil Open Ambassadors Club

The project of the Emil Open Ambassadors Club was created to support the European Games for the disabled youth. With the membership of the Club we reach out to personalities who help us to manage the growing interest in this event every year and to find systemic solutions to support unorganized sports activities of children and youth.

Boccia league of nations

The project focuses on the development of youth athletes in the sport of Boccia. The outcome of this project should be to increase the awareness of Boccia, the creation of an international methodology for the development of youth sport in Boccia as such, the reduction of discrimination against athletes with disabilities and the overall inclusion of athletes in everyday life, the increase of knowledge and understanding of the mental and psychological health of the athlete, and last but not least the application of innovative approaches in sport.

Roadshow, rentals, databases

A Czech-Austrian project through which we set up sports equipment rental shops in border regions, created a database of sports clubs and venues and presented disability sports during a roadshow.

IWAS U23 WORLD GAMES Prague 2016

Our biggest reference so far is the organisation of the World Games for disabled youth in Prague. Over three hundred athletes from all over the world took advantage of one of the last opportunities to be nominated for the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.