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EOLHSS – European Observatory on LGBTIQ+ Hate Speech in Sports

  Developing systems to prevent and protect athletes from hate speech across Europe About the Project Hate speech targeting LGBTIQ+ people remains one of the most pervasive and damaging forms of discrimination in sport. It silences athletes, drives people away from participation, and normalises a culture where exclusion and verbal violence are tolerated. EOLHSS is a 36-month Erasmus+ Sport project led by the EGLSF together with universities, sport organisations, and human rights actors across Europe. Our goal is simple and ambitious: to understand, prevent, and combat LGBTIQ+ hate speech in sport — and build the foundations for a lasting European Observatory. [...]

2026-01-21T19:03:06+01:00Saturday, December 20th, 2025 @ 15:09|Categories: 2025, EOLHSS, News, Projects|0 Comments

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 [...]

2025-12-19T10:02:31+01:00Friday, December 19th, 2025 @ 10:02|Categories: 2025, News, Projects|Tags: , |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 [...]

2025-12-15T23:15:21+01:00Monday, December 15th, 2025 @ 23:15|Categories: 2025, News, Projects|Tags: , |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 [...]

2025-11-23T14:38:11+01:00Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 14:38|Categories: 2025, Blog, News|Tags: , |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 [...]

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