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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

LBTQIWomenActive Workshop and EcoActivity Participation in Valencia

Partners of the LBTQI*Women*Active project participated in the final dissemination workshop of the project Women in Sport : Research & Outcomes hosted at the Novotel Conference Centre, Valencia, Spain on 25th October 2025 by the Federation of Gay Games. Both projects are small collaborative partnerships in the field of sport, funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme. Following a presentation of the key quantitative and qualitative results revealed by the project research of Women in Sport : Research & Outcomes from the University of Valencia, represented by Angélica María Sáenz-Macana and Dr. Javier [...]

Erika Patrikainen2025-11-30T15:29:25+01:00Sunday, November 30th, 2025 @ 15:29|Categories: 2025, LBTIWA, Projects|Tags: Erasmus+ Sport, FLINTA|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

Reflecting on the outcomes of the PLUSS Webinars

LBTQI*Women*Active Workshop and EcoActivity Participation in Valencia

The EuroGames: Reflecting on Three Unforgettable Years

Just Gender: Community Wellbeing final conference

WSRO project results presented at the Gay Games AGA

LBTQIWomenActive Workshop and EcoActivity Participation in Valencia