EDUball educational balls were created in 2002 at the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences. They were co-created by: Prof. Andrzej Rokita, Tadeusz Rzepa, PhD and Marek Nowicki (entrepreneur), and the idea was developed not only by the co-founders but also by current employees of the Team Sports Games Department – Assoc. prof. Ireneusz Cichy and Sara Wawrzyniak, PhD.
The concept of Eduball educational balls was positively received and accepted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Parliamentary Committee for Physical Culture and Sport (meeting of November 25th, 2003, bulletin no. 2552/IV). A set of educational balls is included in the list of teaching aids recommended for school use, intended for general education and integrated education at the primary school level (Paragraph 16, Section 1, Point 7 of the Regulation of the Minister of National Education and Sport of April 24th, 2002, on the conditions and procedure for admitting curricula, pre-school education programs, and textbooks for school use and recommending teaching resources, Journal of Laws No. 69, item 635). In 2004, the Department of Team Sports Games at the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences obtained funding for three years of research on “Integrated Education Using Educational Balls ‘edubal'” (grant KBN No. 2 P05D 058 26). This enabled the monitoring of educational effects using the educational balls, which, after many years, resulted in the commercialization of the results.
For 22 years, the effects of education using EDUballs have been evaluated in grades I–III of primary school and kindergartens. To date, many pedagogical experiments have been carried out in schools and kindergartens (12), many publications have been written on the use of EDUballs in the education of children in grades I – III of primary school (over 60), 6 doctoral theses, 3 books and 4 didactic notebooks with a set activities and games with EDUball/BRAINball educational balls (including two in English and one in Vietnamese).
By conducting scientific research using EDUballs in preschool and early school education, it was proven that EDUball educational balls support the motor and intellectual development of children (they read faster, understand the read text better, solve mathematical tasks better, learn English faster, and have coordination skills at a higher level – graphomotor skills, spatial orientation).
Since the academic year 2010/2011, prof. Andrzej Rokita and Assoc. prof. Ireneusz Cichy conducted classes on the subject “The Educational Balls “Edubal” for students at the German Sport University Cologne.
Since the academic year 2012/2013, the University of Physical Education in Wrocław has been conducting classes for students using Eduball educational balls, entitled: “Theory and methodology of Eduball educational balls”.
In 2018, the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences signed a licensing agreement for the sale and distribution of educational balls in the USA and Canada. At that time, a set of educational balls was prepared specifically for the English-speaking market, and they were named BRAINball (Rokita, Wawrzyniak, Cichy).
In 2024, the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences signed a license agreement for the sale and distribution of educational balls in the European Union.
In the years 2020-2023, A. Rokita, I. Cichy and S. Wawrzyniak established close cooperation with the Poznan University of Physical Education, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University of Warsaw and the Maria Grzegorzewska University. The cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Academy of Physical Education E. Piasecki in Poznań employees resulted in the concept of miniaturization of a set of educational balls, EDUball
In 2022, mini educational balls called mini-EDUball were created, co-created by Prof. A. Rokita, Assoc. prof. I. Cichy and S. Wawrzyniak. PhD from Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences and Prof. Michał Bronikowski from Poznan University of Physical Education, Assoc. prof. Michał Klichowski and Agnieszka Kruszwicka, PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Mini-EDUball is a new methodological proposal that allows you to transfer physically active classes to the classroom. Mini-EDUballs (like EDUballs) will also be distributed in the USA, Canada and the European Union.