EUROPEAN FAIR PLAY MOVEMENT
The European Fair Play Movement (EFPM) is a non-governmental association, with
main aim to promote Fair Play and Tolerance in the broadest sense in sports and
everyday life on European level. The EFPM seeks to achieve this goal by supporting
its members, by helping to promote Fair Play campaigns where sports organizations
take the initiative, by cooperating with the authorities to foster Fair Play themes and
by facilitating regular contacts between the various European sports organizations.
European University Sports
Association (EUSA) and its
Institute have been advocating
for clean sport without doping
and Fair play for several years
already and remains committed
to the cause.
EUSA is an official partner of the
European Fair Play Movement
(EFPM), which is a member
of the International Fair Play
Committee (IFPC). The values
of fair play, equality, ethics, and
clean sport without doping and
without match-fixing are at the
core of EUSA sport and other
events. As a recognition for this,
EUSA also received a special Fair
Play Award by the EFPM in 2014.
On Wednesday, 7 September
2022, World Fair Play Day was
held all around the World,
including in Brussels with a
ceremonial program. World
Fair Play Day is an initiative of
the sporting world that aims
to promote Fair Play and the
ethical values of sport.World Fair Play Day aims to
demonstrate that Fair Play
can be promoted through both
large-scale operations and
simple actions. The aim is to
make this Day an authentic
celebration of Fair Play as a
real component of education in
sport, society and life itself.President of the International
Fair Play Committee, Dr. Jenő
Kamuti, personally attended
the event in Brussels, together
with the Presidents of the other
three founding organizations,
Pierre Zappelli, Panathlon
International, and Philippe
Housiaux, European Fair Play
Movement also Panathlon
Wallonie-Bruxelles.First Fair Play for Peace
Ceremony and annual EFPM
Congress under topic “Gender
Equality in Sport” was held on
November 4, 2022, in Rome City
Hall.The congress was aligned with
the EFPM 2022 Focus area –
Fair Play Education to overcome
Gender Discrimination in Sport
and the EFPM 2022-2025
Strategy: Fair Play Education
encompassing human(istic)
values for better Sport.Through the group discussion,
participants addressed
“Education, press and media,
others” and emphasized that
gender equality guarantees
diversity, which is fundamental
to enrich the society and to
develop its full potential.
When it comes to the existing
barriers, the group insisted onthe importance to change the
language and the mentality, as
communication contributed to
perpetrating stereotype.As sport is a relevant area of
society and can be a powerful
tool to fight against stereotypes
varous recomendations were
made to sport organisations as
to raise awareness on gender
equality, the existence of
stereotypes, their effect and
the role that gender equality
plays, to work on change
related to cultural norms
and specific models, to share
good examples, to implement
concrete actions and to work
through education.PLEASE SEE
http://www.fairplayeur.com
for more information