PREVENTION OF SEXUALISED
VIOLENCE IN SPORTS
The Prevention of Sexualised Violence in Sports project, which ran from the start
of 2012 to the end of 2013, looked to raise awareness over the problem and
sensitising of sexualised violence at all levels of the European sport structure
while creating a sound foundation for the methodical elicitation of relevant
data to capture the dimension of sexual harassment and abuse in sports.
Project partners were able to create a
transnational network of experts and or-
ganisations on the topic of the prevention
of sexualised violence in sports; com-
pile the status quo in several European
countries and a catalogue of good prac-
tices campaigning for an open dialogue
regarding the topic, gather impulses for a
European sports policy; stage a European
conference and draft and disseminaterecommendations to policy-makers in
order to multiply the preventive measures.Partially funded by the Sport Unit of the
European Commission, the project was
coordinated by German Sports Youth in
the German Olympic Sports Confedera-
tion (GER) and included eleven partner
organisations including the Institute for
Social Work and Social Education, theYouth organisation of the European Non-
Governmental Sports Organisation (HUN),
European Paralympics Committee (AUT),
European Basketball Federation (GER) and
European University Sports Association
(SLO), as well as scientific advisors from
ten European countries.