Icam Grand Paris Sud’s Business Services Department Involved in Inclusive Sports Project Awarded by Île-de-France Region

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9 Feb 2026

The Essonne Departmental Table Tennis Committee (CDTT 91) develops table tennis practice for people with disabilities, in close collaboration with the Essonne Handisport and Adapted Sports committees. In this context, a social innovation initiative was launched in 2019 with several partners, including Icam’s Business Services Department, which played a key role in the design, prototyping, and manufacturing of adapted equipment.

Icam’s Business Services Department: An R&D Partnership with CDTT Since 2019

Several collaborative projects conducted between 2019 and 2025 have resulted in the design of innovative rackets (360° racket and push-handle racket), now industrially protected and validated through successful initial testing.

In 2019, a team from Icam Grand Paris Sud’s Business Services Department, the Essonne Departmental Table Tennis Committee, and the Grand Paris Sport Cluster formed a partnership as part of a project supported by CNDS – Heritage & Society Plan (Paris 2024 Olympics). The objective was to design an initial adapted racket prototype to facilitate access to table tennis for people with disabilities, an innovative initiative praised in the press.

In 2025, a new team from the Business Services Department was called upon to design two new models of adapted rackets:

A Project Selected as Winner of the Île-de-France Region’s “Participatory Budget for Disability”

In 2025, CDTT 91 submitted its application to the Île-de-France Region’s “Participatory Budget for Disability” with a project aimed at developing and producing table tennis rackets adapted for people with disabilities.

The Region’s “Participatory Budget for Disability” aims to give all Île-de-France residents the opportunity to become active participants in its policy for the inclusion of people with disabilities.

In December, the results were announced: CDTT 91 was designated a winner of the program, among 130 selected projects.

Thanks to this support, CDTT 91 will be able to launch production of around one hundred adapted rackets in the coming months, including 360° and push-handle models.

These rackets will soon be manufactured by Icam, with the involvement of 5th-year students and production school students, then made freely available to partner organizations (clubs, foundations, medical-social institutions) for a large-scale testing phase.

Following this phase, Icam will continue supporting CDTT 91 in finding a regional industrial partner to enable low-cost production and promote broader, sustainable access to table tennis practice for people with disabilities.

Icam Grand Paris Sud’s Business Services Department is proud to support inclusive sports!