The Filippide Association proposes to organise the European competition for autistic people – ECAP- as the first European not-for-profit event promoting social inclusion of athletes with autistic syndrome. The ECAP event taking place in Rome in September 2017 aims at increasing visibility of sport events promoting inclusion, by targeting participation of disadvantaged groups, training paths and cooperation among public institutions. The ECAP will increase participation in physical activities with a focus on grassroots sports as running and swimming, by supporting the sport for all concept, sport participation, working and volunteering in sports. The applicant selected 12 organisations representing participants from 12 Eu States actively contributing to preparation, implementation and dissemination activities within the project. The ECAP will target several groups: young autistic athletes, participating organisations, families, social workers of the sport sector, external stakeholders as public authorities, civil society organisations and other NGOs. By innovating the sport domain with new sport training practices and by raising awareness on intellectual disabilities at EU level, the project will perform the following activities: - Run for autism: two race variations performed during the ECAP event as open competitions including autistic and neurotypical athletes. - Swimming cup for autistic athletes. - ECAP opening ceremony introducing the event following the model of the Olympic games. - Autism Multisport day training athletes for swimming, running and sailing sport competitions. - Sport training activities: organised twice during the project to draft, develop and test new sport training programmes targeted at the needs of autistic athletes and delivered as on-site and e-learning activities. - Seminar: participating organisations and external stakeholders related to the disability sport sector share their best practices.