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Empowering Youth Workers Through Erasmus+ Mobility in 2025

In 2025, EGLSF implemented two Erasmus+ mobility projects, “Mindful Steps to Inclusion” in Spain and “Bridging, Breaking Barriers” in Morocco, involving nearly 60 youth workers from Europe and beyond. Both initiatives addressed growing challenges around exclusion, gender inequality, and hate speech, with a shared goal of strengthening youth workers’ capacity to support marginalised young people and foster inclusive communities. Mindful Steps to Inclusion 1–9 October 2025 | Galicia, Spain “Mindful Steps to Inclusion” was a training course for youth workers built around a shared journey on the Camino de Santiago. Thirty participants walked a 100 km [...]

Luca Arfini2025-12-19T10:02:31+01:00Friday, December 19th, 2025 @ 10:02|Categories: 2025, News, Projects|Tags: EGLSF, Erasmus+ Sport|0 Comments

Reflecting on the outcomes of the PLUSS Webinars

As part of the Erasmus+ project ‘PLUSS: LGBTQI+ Policy and Leadership in Sport and Society’, led by EGLSF, two online webinars were recently held to facilitate knowledge sharing and discussions on LGBTQI+ inclusion in sport. These sessions brought together sports practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and members of LGBTQI+ sports communities from across Europe, showcasing key project results and emphasising practical steps for progress at the community and institutional levels. You can watch both webinars on our YouTube channel. Webinar 1: Launch of Community Guidelines for Inclusive Sports Clubs The first webinar introduced the new Community Guidelines, a [...]

Luca Arfini2025-12-15T23:15:21+01:00Monday, December 15th, 2025 @ 23:15|Categories: 2025, News, Projects|Tags: EGLSF, PLUSS|0 Comments

The EuroGames: Reflecting on Three Unforgettable Years

Our introduction to the EuroGames in 2023 wasn’t the most straightforward. We’d both been selected to play for Scotland in floorball, we were training hard and counting down the days until we would fly out to Bern with our team. Names: Amanda Fleet & Rebecca Bond Pronouns: she/her & she/her How many years have you been involved in LGBTIQ+ sports: We’ve both played sports all of our lives but have been involved specifically with LGBTIQ+ clubs for about four years. In which roles: We play for the Perth Parrots Floorball Club, we occasionally play [...]

Erika Patrikainen2025-11-23T14:38:11+01:00Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 14:38|Categories: 2025, Blog, News|Tags: EGLSF, FLINTA|0 Comments

Just Gender: Community Wellbeing final conference

Photo credits: Giulia Zazzi The EGLSF-led project on Just Gender: Community Wellbeing is reaching its end, and held a final interactive network conference of the project at the Federal Foundation for Gender Equality in Berlin on 10th October 2025. The project is a small collaborative partnership in the field of sport, funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme. The conference is the culmination of a two-year exploration of the pressing questions of justice, inequality, discrimination, and isolation in sport, and the experiences of access and participation of women and FLINTA+ persons in all their diversity in sport and [...]

Victoria Ash2025-11-03T08:20:12+01:00Monday, November 3rd, 2025 @ 8:20|Categories: News, Projects|0 Comments

WSRO project results presented at the Gay Games AGA

The data analysis results of the European Erasmus+ project “LBTI women in Sport - Research & Outcomes” (WSRO) were presented for the first time at the Annual General Assembly of the Federation of Gay Games in Valencia on 25th October. In addition we got together with the LBTI*Women*Active project in a meeting and FLINTA EcoActivity sport day! The responses to the project survey were gathered through online and in-person data collection from March 2024 to April 2025. We managed to collect over 1000 responses, [...]

Erika Patrikainen2025-10-30T16:36:38+01:00Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 @ 18:31|Categories: 2025, News, Projects, WSRO|Tags: Erasmus+ Sport, FLINTA|0 Comments