PaMe - Paths of Memory

Sport is a vocation to well-being and health, but it also means social inclusion and brotherhood, and therefore it can turn into an opportunity to reflect on why we, Europeans, are together. The "Paths of Memory" project, which aims to involve sport enthusiasts, especially young people, consists of a series of sporting events to be shared as a lighthearted collective experience in places bearing significant memory: - CORSA PER L'EUROPA, Gorizia-Nova Gorica: 6 km and 12 km foot race in the city of the wall that separates Italy from Slovenia. - NATALONGA PER L'EUROPA, Ventotene: A 1700 meters swim in open water, from the island of Santo Stefano to the beach of Calanave. - COURSE POUR L’EUROPE, Strasboutg-Kehl: 3 km and 10 km foot race along the French and German banks of the Rhine. These three events are open to all. Participants will enjoy both competitive spirit and a healthy and emotional group activity. In order to achieve a result, sport always requires great motivation, combined with commitment and sacrifice. Sport promotes a sense of belonging and solidarity, provides the drive to overcome one’s own limits, or the ones represented by geographical borders. With the listed initiatives, EuropaNow!, together with “UISP-Gorizia” and “Unis Vers le Sport”, intends to couple the named core sport values with the historic significance attributed to the venues. Gorizia is the city where the "last" fallen wall of Europe still separate the Italian side from the Slovenian one; Ventotene is the island where the Italian Fascist regime confined Altiero Spinelli, the author of the "Manifesto Towards a Free and United Europe"; finally, Strasbourg and Kehl, represent a symbol of French-German reconciliation, putting an end to centuries of conflicts. Places of our memory, where we will run and swim to remember and reflect together, till we reach the finish line of greater awareness. So that we can create, through sport, the Europe we want.