Sport for Unity, Resilience and Empowerment (SURE)

This project aims at enhancing and testing a model of cooperation to build the resilience of the organized sport movement and ensure the societal role of sport for stronger communities, focusing on the access to sport for the most vulnerable socio-economic groups, with the aim to be better equipped to face crisis (energy, displacement, pandemic). This project is based on the alarming numbers from the recently published Special Eurobarometer on Sport and Physical Activity (European Commission, 2022) regarding the “socio-demographic variations in physical activity and exercise participation” and on the findings from past projects coordinated by ENGSO (SPIRIT, EQUIP, CHAMP, ASPIRE). SURE will gather a competent and motivated consortium of 11 partners and 5 associated partners from 13 countries, coming from private and public fields, from within and outside the organised sport movement to provide elements of answers to the following questions: -How could the grassroots sport movement be more accessible specifically to the most vulnerable socio-economic groups? -How can sports be more affordable? -How can sport prevent and face the dropout in times of crisis? Trying to answer those questions, this project will pay specific attention to the most vulnerable socio-economic groups that are underrepresented in sport and physical activity, voicing their experiences in the construction of the deliverables and bearing in mind the intersectionality of discriminations.