ENGSO & ENGSO YOUTH
From 13-15 October 2022, ENGSO members, National Olympic Committees,
National Sports Confederations, and representatives of the sport
movement gathered in Arnhem, The Netherlands, for the 5th edition of
ENGSO’s flagship event – the 2022 European Sport Platform (ESP).
Under the theme of “The
Inclusive Paradox”, the 2022
European Sport Platform was
hosted by the ENGSO member
Dutch Olympic CommitteeDutch
Sports Federation (NOCNSF)
in the sports capital of The
Netherlands – Arnhem and
the Olympic Training Centre
Papendal.
The two-day event offered
a learning and networking
experience with interactive and
intergenerational workshops
for participants from all over
Europe. United through values-
based sport that strengthens
communities, they joined ENGSO
and NOC*NSF to improve their
work, approaches and strategies
in the field of sports for all,
learn how the European sport
organisations and clubs can
approach the marginalised
groups such as LGBTQI+
community, people with
disabilities or refugees in sport,
and exchange experiences about
the positive change inclusion
of those groups bring to sport
federations, communities, cities
and nations across Europe.Stefan Bergh, ENGSO President,
officially opened the event
on Friday, 14 October 2022,
highlighting the urgent need
to make the European sport
structure inclusive and open to
everyone. With his welcoming
message, he specifically called
upon the sports movement to
focus on those left behind.The program of the first day of
the European Sport Platform
included speeches on the topic
Sports4all, personal viewpoints,
a great panel session combined
with a presentation of even
greater inclusive “One Love
Campaign”, updates on policy
development as well as sharing
inspirational stories, all involving
great results and strong impact
on the topic of inclusion.This intellectually busy day
was then wrapped up with theParallel Workshops, where
the present representatives
could choose to participate
in workshops on the topic of:
LGBTQI+ in sport, New ways of
attracting young people in sport,
Social Return on investment
and The Power of Youth
Involvement.On day two, the program was
opened by the very inspiring
keynote speaker Mr Rolf
Schrama, Paralympics athlete,
who took the participants
through his journey as a
disabled person, sharing that
disability is not a problem but
it is a chance and how when he
started to accept his disability,
new doors opened, and one of
them was sport.This inspirational presentation
was followed by another set of
parallel workshops, this time
on Youth in Sport, with focus
on good practices, covering
topics such as: Human Rights
and youth in sport, YouthSport model in Norway and
Good Practice Exchanges: The
ICOACHKIDS Pledge.The event was wrapped by the
final session on Inclusion in
sport, with focus on knowledge
and best practice sharing,
moderated by Ms Sallie Barker,
having the Communications
Officer of the European
University Sports Association,
Ms Hristina Hristova presenting
the project Inclusion in Sport
(iSport) and Ms Jennifer
Browning, International
Relations Advisor at UK Sport
and EWS Committee member
sharing her personal examples
as a former Paralympic
athlete, competing in women’s
Wheelchair Basketball and as
a vocal advocate for disability
equality and gender equality in
sport and society.The next edition of the European
Sports Platform will be held
in October 2023 in Lisbon,
Portugal.PLEASE SEE
http://www.engso.eu
for more informationEUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION YEAR MAGAZINE 2022-23^150
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