Around 15% of the population of Europe has a disability. The DKF carried out the Erasmus KA1 project "Enabled Media" last year examining how to communicate with people with disabilities and how to enable media such as websites, photos, videos and written media so that disabled people could effectively use them. The media was produced in conjunction with disabled people, communications experts and disability experts. The media and communications were produced for two martial arts competitions, the 1st Ikkaido European Open for Disabled People and the 1st Ikkaido European Open for Disabled People. The project was very successful with many interesting outcomes that required further investigation and study. One of the outcomes we noted was that there was a significant difference in the strength of the sense of community in the northern European compared to the southern European groups of disabled people. The southern Europeans appeared to have a far stronger sense of community but also appeared to face greater barriers to participation in society. The northern Europeans sense of community was very weak even though barriers to participation in society had largely been removed and this was evidenced when many British parents, carers and disabled athletes did not join the celebration meal and after party which had been arranged for them.Disabled people have been marginalised within traditional communities and they are now being marginalised in the new communities of social media. We want to look into the reasons why this has occurred and what can be done to create a community of disabled people and additionally create inclusion in both the traditional and the new modern communities of the social media.Network of Inclusive Communities in Europe (NICE) will bring together 8 disabled young people from Spain and 8 from the UK along with their carers, young non-disabled people, disability experts, media and communications experts and social media experts to explore the barriers to disabled people's participation in traditional communities and in the new communities of modern social media and consider practical ways to remove those barriers. Young disabled and non-disabled people will learn about how technology can be used in a safe and accessible way to create networks of friends all over the world and the advantages and disadvantages of social media. They will work together to create Twitter, facebook and Snapchat accounts for the young disabled people. They will learn to create and use a WKI which is a special type of website designed for people with a disability and learn to use photographic and video media with all forms of social media to create safe new friendships and communities.NICE will also compare the differences between Spanish and British culture to examine the nature of traditional local communities and the inclusion of disabled people. The project will highlight the differences between Spanish and British culture to see how they might contribute to inclusive communities.NICE will additionally examine how sport and games not only create inclusion but also aid the inclusion of disabled people locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Physical activity will be used to examine the nature of friendships and the part they play in creating communities.We expect non-disabled and disabled people to form new long-lasting and growing networks of friends locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. We expect the results of this project to have a profound effect on the way in which disabled people perceive themselves and the way are perceived by others and as disabled people become more visible in society this will further assist the normalisation and inclusion of disabled people internationally.In effect we will have created a Network of Inclusive Communities in Europe - NICE!