This week we are celebrating Women’s Sport Week, a UK initiative of the charity organisation Women in Sport. This organisation is taking big strides to promote opportunities to engage in sport and physical activity – from participating, to volunteering and working in the sport sector. We feature many of their good examples on our Women […]
Lesson from street sport: the best way to do a 30-second elevator pitch is with a video camera
Adapted from an article in Danish by DGI Underground’s project coordinator for street sport Helle Nymann Jensen With over 220 Danish Street Cup final participants, 35 freestylers and 40 panna players packed into Copenhagen’s City Hall Square, Denmark’s street sport festival gave a unique atmosphere to the European Week of Sport on 17 September. The participants joined […]
Walking football is growing!
By Antonio Saccone, MOVE Week National Coordinator for Slovenia In the frame of the Football Against Racism Action Weeks, SD Partizan Skofja Loka organised the first demonstration of “walking football” in Slovenia. The event took place on 17 September in Skofja Loka, a beautiful medieval town 25km from Ljubljana. The local daily centre and the Municipality were partners […]
MOVE Week kicks out poverty in Greece
Greece has brought joy to the less fortunate by participating in the international tournament “Homeless World Cup”, an action that was connected with MOVE Week 2014, but held after the event. Georgios Farfaras, the National Coordinator for Greece, told us how this was possible: “A MOVE Week team in Thessaloniki, Greece, joined the movement “Homeless […]