EUSA Year Magazine 2022-2023

GREEN SPORTS HUB EUROPE

Making the sport sector sustainable is the main idea behind the Green Sports Hub

Europe (GSHE) project, aiming to be a support system for organisations to share

knowledge and best practices, so that they can learn from each other and develop.

The three-year project aims to
test the potential of the sports
sector as a high-profile & news
agenda-driving industry, to be a
channel for the societal change
needed to make the European
Green Deal a reality by focusing
on good governance so that
leaders have the knowledge and
skills to place environmental
sustainability at the heart of
their strategy.

The project works as a support
system for organisations to share
knowledge and best practices,
so that they can learn from each
other and develop. Making use
of experts, listening to the needs
of the sector and equipping
sports organisations and their
events with the necessary tools,
project partners will look to
translate existing standards on
environmental sustainability into
concrete action, while aiming for
the GSHE approach and tools
to become a central component
of sports organisation good
governance.

The initiative spans beyond the
initial project partners, so sports
organisations, NGOs, academia,
experts, events organisers,

environmental movements,

youth and fans are welcome

to join the partnership of

stakeholders, under the slogan

We Play to Renew.

From the beginning of 2022,

when the partners met online

to discuss and to define the

action plan for the current year,

the project is implementing

in a great way. Following this

meeting, in March, partners

gathered in Paris for a hybrid

project meeting, focusing on

developing a self-assessment

tool and discussion on best ways

of how to convey a specific and

useful content to sport actors.

This tool will aim to help sports

organisations to have a better

vision of their own sustainable

practices and give them adapted

suggestions for improvement

depending on their precise

needs.

In October, the first outcomes

and resources of the project

became available online, having

the project partners currently

working on educational modules

and preparation of the Playbook,

which will help facilitate the

use of existing initiative and

standards.

The two outputs brought

together under this State of

Play were developed during

the first part of the project in

2021. They include collection,
      analysis and sharing of good
      practices. These tools provide a
      mapping of current resources,
      strategies and initiatives on the
      state and status of green sport
      organisations and explores the
      current barriers facing sport to
      implement green sport strategy
      and use existing tools.

In 2023 this project will be

focusing on dissemination of

the evaluation tool and to plan

a series of test events for 2023,

where the theory will be put into

practice.

The project is coordinated by

Surfrider Foundation Europe

(FRA), with project partners

including Association of Cities

and Regions for the Sustainable

Management of Resources

(BEL), Sports Confederation

of Portugal (POR), UKActive

(GBR), Green Cycling Norway

(NOR), Olympic Committee

of Slovenia (SLO), European

Volleyball Confederation (LUX),

Rugby Europe (FRA), European

Athletics Association (SUI)

and the EUSA Institute (SLO).

Green Sports Hub Europe also

supports the EUSA Green

Policy which has been recently

adopted by the European

University Sports Association

(EUSA) and sets a more

strategic sustainable policy for

the organisation.

Co-funded by the

Erasmus+ Programme

of the European Union

PLEASE SEE

http://www.greensportshub.eu

for more information

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2022-23^114

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