EFDN launches ‘Tackling Colour Blindness in Sport (TACBIS)’

EFDN launches ‘Tackling Colour Blindness in Sport (TACBIS)’

EFDN is excited to launch its new Pan-European programme ‘Tackling Colour Blindness in Sport (TACBIS)’. The seven programme partners come together for their first international project meeting in Oxford, the UK on the 20th & 21st of January. 

Together with our programme partners Colour Blind Awareness, Oxford Brookes University, Randers FC and the National Football Associations of Iceland, Romania, and Portugal, EFDN will investigate the prevalence of colour blindness in football (fans and players), identify barriers to progression for colour blind players and coping mechanisms employed by colour blind players. Together with our project partners we aim to raise awareness for colour blindness in sport and society and promote surroundings that are colour blind friendly.

EFDN will start an awareness campaign amongst clubs to prevent kit clashes for colour blind people and share the gathered knowledge and practical solutions in a new EFDN Practitioners Guide. We encourage all our member clubs to take first steps like, for example, to make changes on the website to improve the accessibility for colour blind people.

Project meeting in Oxford

The first international project meeting at Oxford Brookes University will see presentations of all partner organisation. After examining the current state of practices in the field, the TACBIS methodology will be discussed. The presentation and following discussions focus on monitoring and evaluation, communication, project planning and finance.