On the invitation of the Gender Equality Commission of the National Olympic Committee of Slovenia (OKS), representatives of the European University Sports Association (EUSA) and the EUSA Institute attended the Commission's meeting in Ljubljana on May 31.

EUSA Education and Development Manager Sara Rozman together with EUSA Communications and Projects Manager Andrej Pisl attended the meeting, briefly presenting the organisation and its main activities. The main part of the contribution was presenting the recent EUSA actions in the field of gender equality and gender equity - especially when it comes to access to sport, education and project, good governance, as well as visibility and media.

In EUSA, all sports are available for men and women, with relatively gender balanced gender representation when it comes to athletes' participation, while the officials' gender representation is still in need of development.

In education part, the conferences, seminars, workshops projects and partnerships were highlighted. Projects, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union were presented as good practice: Inclusion in Sport (iSPORT), Empowered Nation (ENACT), Innovating Football Leadership through Practice and Policy (iFlipp), Promoting Gender Equality in Sports (PROGRES), Gender Equality Toolkit for Generation Z (GETZ) and Strengthening Coaching with the Objective to Raise Equality (SCORE).

In the governance part, the introduced progressive gender quotas were presented, as well as the work and activities of the EUSA Office and the Commissions - especially Inclusion & Diversity Commission.

The last part was focused on the visibility and media, where in EUSA we strive for balanced media representation of women athletes, avoiding stereotypes, paying special attention to the visuals, alternating images, promoting good practices, sharing examples and inspiring role-models (see the recent EUSA Insider editions for examples).