Hosted by the Budapest University Athletics Club (BEAC), the partners of the Empowered Nation (ENACT) project met in the Hungarian capital city on Monday, December 9, for the final meeting.

The meeting was aimed to recap the activities of the project and to prepare the information package that will be distributed, raising more awareness about gender equality and helping entities and individuals in their efforts towards social inclusion and equal opportunities in sport. Apart from representatives of all partner organisations, the meeting was also attended by representatives from the Hungarian University Sports Federation (HUSF). In addition to concluding the meeting objectives, participants were also able to practically engage in the sports activity of cheerleading, which is a gender-mixed sport.



The project, supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, focused on searching for long term and sustainable strategic plans to enforce a gender balanced sport society at all levels, supporting women through non-formal education and engaging them into the European sport sector, fostering international cooperation and sharing good practices in university sport at different levels for gender balanced leadership and fighting against the lack of access and opportunities at higher levels in sport for women.

Over the duration of the 2-year project, which will conclude at the end of 2019, the partners were able to organise a site visit at the 4th European Universities Games (EUG2018) in Coimbra, data was gathered about the gender situation of EUSA sport events, a voluntary pledge board to support gender equality in sport and leadership at all levels was established, several local activities were carried out by the partners, and sustainable ideas and future cooperation between target groups were proposed with the aim to build sustainable, gender balanced sport events from the point of view of athletes and volunteers ahead of EUSA's next big event - the 5th European Universities Games (EUG2020) in Belgrade.



The project was led by the EUSA Institute (SLO), partnering up with the Portuguese University Sports Association - FADU (POR), Uludag University (TUR) and Budapest University Athletics Club - BEAC (HUN).

For more information about the project, please see the official website at enact.eusa.eu.

ENACT PLEDGE BOARD

EUSA stands up for gender equality in university sport and invite all its members, partner federations, universities and its sport clubs, sponsors, university sport event Organizing Committees to join to this movement!

We believe that:
• Creating gender statistics are important in order to be aware of gender issues in sports
• Empowering women to take part at the different segments of sport is our tasks too
• Good governance is key, therefore we wish to see both genders in the decision-making processes

Join us and show your support!
 
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