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♿️ Accessibility is a cornerstone of innovation in the stadium industry, and we’re proud to have tackled this critical topic during the ESSMA Summit in Madrid. 💡 During the Mastermind Accessibility session, Olivier Jarosz from AccessibAll spotlighted the transformative power of making sports and event venues inclusive for all. His session offered actionable strategies—covering audits, staff training, and digital accessibility improvements—that can help venues create welcoming spaces for everyone, regardless of ability.  🔗 Discover key takeaways and practical insights from the session here: https://lnkd.in/epJixmRv ✨ The conversation doesn’t stop here!  Tomorrow, we’ll share an in-depth report featuring groundbreaking accessibility initiatives showcased at ESSMA in 2024. Stay tuned for more inspiration and ideas to drive inclusion in our industry. #ESSMASummit #Accessibility #Innovation #Inclusion #StadiumExperience 

📢 OUR CALL FOR ACTION IS LIVE 📢 We are thrilled to announce the publication of our joint Call for Action on "Enabling Cross-Sectoral Approaches for Healthy Lifestyles in Europe" as part of the HL4EU Erasmus+ project! 🇪🇺🤸♀️ As partner of Healthy Lifestyles for Europe project (HL4EU), we firmly believe that promoting healthy lifestyles is not just a responsibility, but a collective mission that requires collaboration across sectors and borders. Our Call for Action underscores this belief and outlines key strategies to foster healthier lifestyles across Europe. 🤝 🤸♀️ A healthier future evidently requires collective action. We, therefore, invite all committed stakeholders to endorse this Call for Action and join us in calling on the European Union to enable and foster greater cross-sectoral approaches to healthy lifestyles across Europe. 👐🤸🏻♀️ 🇪🇺Increase EU funding and initiatives, and their accessibility, that support multisectoral collaboration and coordination platforms dedicated to healthy lifestyle promotion; ⚕️Integrate physical activity promotion into clinical practice through screening, counselling, and referral programs. 🔍Conduct research to identify effective strategies for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour at the population level. 🚲Implement policies to create supportive environments for physical activity, such as urban planning initiatives, transportation policies, and school-based programmes. ⛹️Mobilise communities to provide accessible and safe spaces for physical activity, including parks, active mobility infrastructures, and recreational facilities (both private and public). Read and endorse our Call for Action 👉 https://lnkd.in/ee4w4N9P Thank you to all our partners in this project🤝 EPIONI | ΕΠΙΟΝΗ European Initiative for Exercise in Medicine e.V. (EIEIM) European Liver Patients' Association - ELPA EUROPEAN NETWORK OF OUTDOOR SPORTS It's Great Out There Coalition Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry POLIS Network #HL4EU #HealthyLifestyles #Europe #CrossSectorCollaboration #ErasmusPlus #HealthPromotion #PublicHealth #CallForAction #PressRelease #Collaboration #TogetherWeCan 

The Get Active- The Sport Strategy conference was a great success, with each presentation and discussion offering diverse perspectives and insight. ⚽ The panel session "Improving Access and Participation in Sport for All" was particularly enlightening, covering a range of important topics that underscore the significance of open dialogues and collaborative efforts in shaping the future of sport. The session featured insightful contributions from: ⭐ Juliette Inverdale , Head of Sport Participation, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, National Physical Activity Taskforce ⭐ Hitesh Patel, CEO, Sport for Development Coalition ⭐ Helen Rowbotham, CEO Access Sport, NED and Trustee, British Paralympic Association ⭐ Viveen Taylor, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Sport England Our panellists emphasised the need to tackle inequality in activity levels and highlighted the importance of targeted strategies to ensure equal opportunities for all. The panel also discussed leveraging sports for community development, emphasising its role in fostering cohesion and promoting positive societal outcomes. Collaboration was a key theme, with the importance of partnering across sectors to fund grassroots efforts being highlighted. 🤝 Lastly, understanding barriers to participation was identified as crucial. The panel stressed the need for research to identify factors deterring engagement in sports, enabling stakeholders to develop targeted interventions and unlock the potential of active lifestyles for everyone. We're excited to share an exclusive snippet of Hitesh Patel's compelling talk below. Thank you to our speakers and everyone who attended and participated in the event. Your engagement and enthusiasm truly made it a memorable experience. What are your thoughts on the key topics discussed today? 🤔 #GetActive #SportStrategyWM #Conference #LeadershipInSport #SportsForAll #community #AccessAndParticipation

Starting out at the European Parliament 🇪🇺 We are presenting our project to #towns, #cities, and #regions across Europe at the ACES Europe Gala, in Brussels. As municipalities are recognised for their commitment to sport, we invite them to join EUAPPTIVE—encouraging their senior populations to stay active and lead healthier lives. #EUAPPTIVE's tool for healthy and active ageing will be available in June 2025, in a digital challenge format, where citizens will be able to monitor their activity and compete at a European level. ➡️ Learn more at www.euapptive.eu and stay tuned for more information. The Sport Innovation Hub Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark European Network for Innovation and Knowledge Cuicui Studios ACES Europe Município de Vila Nova de Poiares

SHARE 2.0 is a European Commission initiative that succeeds #SHARE, which ran from 2018 to 2023, and of which we are a part! 👏 What is it ❓ It is a group of different stakeholders to strengthen collaboration and knowledge exchange on key topics in the field of sport: access to EU funding, health, innovation and sustainability. The aim is to 🇪🇺 Strengthen stakeholders' capacity to identify and use EU funding to encourage sport and physical activity 🗣️ Promote and replicate promising practices in the areas of health, innovation and green sport to learn from experience and respond and adapt to potentially emerging needs. 🔜 https://lnkd.in/e53w3abX #EuropeanCommission #Europe #Sport #SHARE2 #partner

🏆Over the course of the past two weeks, we’ve witnessed the best and most competitive athletes shine on the global stage during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Throughout, I’ve spotlighted solutions from just a few Olympic countries that deserve their own medals for creative, inspiring ways to advance health equity. Many and more of these spotlights are included in RWJF’s Global Trends in Health Equity report. Check them all out here: https://rwjf.ws/3vNWO3H  And there was no shortage in lessons to be learned from this year’s groundbreaking games and the global camaraderie we’ve seen throughout. A few of my key takeaways focus on: 🌍Sustainability: the IOC and their French hosts collaborated to make this year’s Olympiad the greenest in history. While there are still adjustments and progress to be made to bring the Olympics closer to true sustainability, we can look to their efforts as examples for reducing the carbon footprints of U.S. cities.   📰News coverage: I was struck by how U.S.-centric Olympic coverage on our prime-time channels has been compared to streaming platforms, which provided a much broader and more accessible way to learn about Olympians from other nations. It reminds me that being intentional in our efforts to learn from around the world also means looking beyond just U.S.-based outlets. ⚖️Equity: it’s interesting to learn that the 2024 Olympics were the first to have as many female athletes as male athletes. Equity in representation is crucial to ensuring that everyone has the same chance to achieve success. And whether it be Allyson Felix creating the first-ever nursery in the Olympic village or watching three Black female athletes lift each other up on the gymnastics podium, these images will remain in my mind for years to come and give me hope for a brighter future. While I’ll miss tuning in to watch the Olympic events, I’m coming away from this reinvigorated in my commitment to learn from the efforts of other nations to address barriers to health equity, just like the Olympians from around the world learn from one another to improve in their sports. #HealthEquity #Olympics #2024Olympics

🏅 Meet the Grassroots365 grantees! Olympism365 Innovation Hub, a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee – IOC, Beyond Sport and Women Win, has announced its first cohort of Grassroots365 innovators, consisting of community-based groups and individuals. 🌱 With a total of USD 170,000 in funding received from the Hub, the grantees are beginning to develop, test and expand their innovations, leveraging sport for social impact to tackle societal issues within their own communities. 🔗 Read about all the grantees and their innovations here: https://lnkd.in/ev4ZQeDx

🏅 Empowering Women in Elite Sports   Sport Ireland was honoured to contribute to the Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance International Conference "Women and Performance" this November. We are proud to have shared insights from Ireland's efforts in shaping the future of women’s sport:   📢 Nora Stapleton, Director of Strategic National Governing Body Programmes & Women in Sport Lead, presented on Sport Ireland’s vision for women through the transformative Women in Sport Programme.   📢 Dr SarahJane Cullen, Senior Physiologist at Sport Ireland Institute, presented on the development of a Body Composition Position Statement Process, illustrating how evidence-based policies drive impactful support for high-performance female athletes.   The conference, hosted as part of the Erasmus+ Ex-Aequo Project in partnership with global leaders such as Australian Institute Of Sport, CAR Sant Cugat, and Japan Sport Council. It was an inspiring platform for collaboration, learning, and advancing shared goals of equity and excellence in elite sport discussing critical topics, including RED-S syndrome, leadership, stress urinary incontinence, and innovative athlete support systems. #believeperformachieve #WIS

On 2 July, EuropeActive had the pleasure of attending the conference on the ‘Power of Dialogue to Foster Cross-Sectoral Collaboration - Results from the Dialogical Work Erasmus+ project’ at the European Committee of the Regions. Amidst the fast-paced transformations of our societies and increasing interdependencies among sectors, authorities face challenges in ensuring the inclusivity, efficiency, and sustainability of their interventions. Enhanced cooperation and breaking down silos are crucial to addressing these issues.    Hosted by Birgitta Sacrédeus, Member of the Committee of the Region, and Maurizia Rolli, Director of Innovation in Social and Health services of the Emilia Romagna Region, the meeting gathered representatives of local authorities, professionals, civil society organisations and educational experts to discuss how to equip health, social, and other professionals with the necessary skills to foster dialogue among stakeholders and bridge communication gaps.   The discussions provided valuable insights for EuropeActive’s own work on the Erasmus+ funded project Healthy Lifestyles for Europe project (HL4EU). During the project’s 30-month duration, EuropeActive and partners will explore and promote cross-sectoral approaches to healthy lifestyles through physical activity. The consortium of leading NGOs is united to collaborate on healthy lifestyle promotion across policies and sectors with the view of tackling NCDs, of improving quality of life and well-being and, of building healthier and more sustainable societies and economies.     ✅ Follow HL4EU on LinkedIn for more updates: https://lnkd.in/ejBPEaX2 ✍️ Endorse HL4EU Call for Action on Enabling Cross-Sectoral Approaches to Healthy Lifestyles in Europe: https://lnkd.in/ee4w4N9P

Our CEO Hayley Lever was in London earlier this week with Active Partnerships and national organisations from across the movement, physical activity and sport sector. You can read her reflections here: https://lnkd.in/ds2tqJZE Over 40 MPs were in attendance in Parliament to discuss how we all have a role to play in creating the conditions for a happier, healthier and more active nation through movement, physical activity and sport. Minister for Sport, Steph Peacock MP, said: “I’m not going to underplay the challenges we face. "We are committed to rebuilding the foundations of our country and I am going to ensure that sport and physical activity is at the heart of that.  “The Government’s focus is on its five manifesto missions, and these include improving public health and building an NHS fit for the future and breaking down the barriers across our society. "Sport and physical activity are essential to preventative health and the biggest health gain comes from supporting those who are inactive to move more.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eiGFHm2j