EMPOWERED NATION
Based on the EUSA gender equality survey results, EUSA finds it important to
strengthen women’s participation in the field of university sport. The Empowered
Nation (ENACT) project officially kicked off during the European Universities
Games 2018 in Coimbra, and is a two-year project which aims to create a change in
university sport society and raise awareness about the issues for women in sport.
The project is financed by the European
Union as an Erasmus+ small collabora-
tive partnership project, and it reaches
across Europe, with project partners from
Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary and Turkey.
The project has a wide impact not just
geographically but also includes differ-
ent levels of sport governance as partner
organisations include a university, a
university sport club, a national university
sport governing body and an international
Non-Governmental Organisation.
The project encourages current decision-
makers and sport event organisers of uni-
versity sport to join this movement, while
it also calls the attention for opportunities
through volunteering of current university
sport athletes and volunteers. Education
through workshops, engagement of young
volunteers, carrying out local projects,
creation of a voluntary pledge board for
sport organisations, re-launch of the
gender survey, sharing good practices
and writing a long term and sustainable
strategic plan for volunteer programmes
are all activities of the ENACT project.
The expected outcome of the project is
that sport governing bodies will motivate
each other through their good govern-
ance and good practises, while provid-
ing more opportunities and support for
women to enter sport through volunteer-
ing. Furthermore, we wish to empower
female university athletes to stay in the
sport sector even after their athlete’scareers, supporting them to become future
coaches, referees, officials, organisers and
leaders.The project is coordinated by the Euro-
pean University Sports Association and
partners include Uludag University (TUR),
Portuguese University Sport Federation
(POR) and Budapest University Athletics
Club (HUN).EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES