The “Keeping Girls in Sport” webinar focuses on strategies to keep girls engaged in sports.
Organized on November 28, 2024, by Sport and Citizenship, UFEC and ENGSO within the Erasmus Plus project GAP Women, led by UFEC, this event aimed to promote girls’ participation in sport and reflect on such important subjects for the sporting community, such as:
- what are the barriers of girls’ participation in sport,
- what kind of strategies and actions sport community can take to keep girls in sport,
- importance of role models to prevent girls’ abandonment from sport in their teens.
Several role models, experts in the field of sport and partners of the Gap Women project shared their experiences and good practices on promoting gender equality in sport and their common actions taken within European Week of Sport 2024.
This webinar was also the opportunity to discuss the solutions for sustaining girls’ participation in sports, such as Gap Women’s online course developed for grassroots sport organizations.
If you missed the event, watch the recording here!
PROGRAMME
10:00 – 10:05 Welcoming and Introduction
- Polona Fonda, Communication officer in European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO).
10:05 – 10:25 Presentation of the current challenges on gender equality in sport
- Alla Krinitsyna, Project manager in Social projects and International Department of the Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia (UFEC).
- Emine Bozkurt, Senior Coordinating Adviser in National Bureau against Discrimination and Racism, Netherlands. Former member of the European Parliament. Ex-chairperson in the EU High Level Group on Gender Equality in Sport (2020-2022).
10:25 – 10:30 – Structural violence as a barrier to women’s participation in sport: Insights from the Sport GVP project
Eleni Trichina, Administration Coordinator of the Distance Learning Unit of the University of Nicosia
10:30 – 10:50 Role models testimonials – How can we encourage girls to practice sport?
- Galia Dvorak, Deputy Secretary General in European Table Tennis Union (ETTU), former olympic athlete.
- Jennifer Browning, Sport Advisor and International Relations specialist at UK Sport.
- Aggeliki Gerolimou, Olympian and World Champion in women’s water polo.
10:50 – 11:00 Questions
11:00 – 11:10 Conclusions
- Polona Fonda, Communication officer in European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO).
