On Tuesday, 16 February 2021, ENGSO Honorary President Birgitta Kervinen and Equality Within Sport (EWS) Committee member and a General Secretary of our associated member, EGLSF, Sarah Townsend participated in the first meeting of European Commission’s High Level Group on Gender Equality in Sport....
In Sweden, sport clubs have experienced both: the closures and the reopening allowed only under strict restrictions. Organised sport activities decreased tremendously in 2020. The government allocated 150 million Euros to the sport sector to prevent the financial ruin of sport clubs and sport associations....
On Thursday, 28 January 2021, ENGSO Policy Director Laurent Briel participated in the 6th meeting of the European contact group on the International Partnership against Corruption in Sport – IPACS. The event gathered 21 participants; representatives of the governments, sport federations and other organisations....
In Italy, grassroots sport clubs are struggling and some of them were forced to make radical choices such as a total closure of the club. ...
On Friday, 15 January 2021, ENGSO Secretary General Sara Massini participated in the 16th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for sport (Ministerial roundtable) and presented the position of ENGSO on the future of the European Sports Charter and Human Rights in sport....
In December 2020, ENGSO President Stefan Bergh, ENGSO Secretary-General Sara Massini and ENGSO Youth chair Ugne Chmeliauskaitė signed the Sports For Climate Action Framework, initiated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). ...