On 23 June, celebrated worldwide as Olympic Day, the European sport community gathered in Brussels for the #BeActive EU Sport Awards Ceremony. The event was hosted by the Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, and officially opened by Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen,...
The Implementation Dialogue on the European Week of Sport with the European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, took place on 23 June 2026 in Brussels, Belgium....
On 23 June, celebrated worldwide as Olympic Day, the European sport community gathered in Brussels for the #BeActive EU Sport Awards Ceremony. The event was hosted by the Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, and officially opened by Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen,...
From 8–9 June 2026, staff members from ENGSO and ENGSO Youth came together in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for their annual staff meeting, hosted and led by ENGSO Secretary General Theo Neyenhuis (NOC*NSF)....
The ENGSO Equality Within Sport (EWS) Committee officially commenced its new 2026-2028 mandate in May 2026. The committee members gathered for their first in-person meeting in Budapest during the ENGSO General Assembly, marking the beginning of a new term and providing an opportunity to set...
On March 31, 2026 (Transgender Day of Visibility), Graz University of Technology hosted the Austria-wide event “Gender Diversity in University and Recreational Sports”. The event focused on creating safer, more inclusive opportunities for trans, non-binary, and genderqueer individuals to participate in university and recreational sports....
Sport plays a central role in Austrian society. With nearly 15,000 sports clubs and around 1.8 million people participating in organized sport, Austria’s sports system is deeply rooted in civil society and volunteer engagement. ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new “Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport”, under which all women and girls are required to undergo a “once-in-a-lifetime” initial sex test, determined by the presence of the SRY gene, before...
On 21 May 2026, a significant milestone for gender equality in sport was reached in Helsinki, Finland, as 27 sport and physical activity organisations signed the Brighton + Helsinki Declaration during a joint signing ceremony at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium....
From 27–28 May 2026, representatives of the European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation participated in the Plenary Meeting of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) and the EPAS Working Group on the Autonomy of Sport and Good Governance, held in Strasbourg....