The Queens Rugby7 Festival

The association Alice Milliat has the aim to promote women sports by organizing concrete actions such as sports events. To promote rugby 7 that has become a discipline in the summer Olympic games since 2016. The association Alice Milliat has decided to create The Queens Rugby7 Festival, the first event that will be organized in Europe dedicated to non-professional women playing Rugby 7. The festival will take place in June 2020 in the Parisian area in France and will receive 72 teams from diverse European countries. The festival will welcome 4 categories of women to reach a wide public: - Scholar category: girls in middle or high school, between 13 and 17 years old - University category: women aged at least of 18 years old, enrolled in a team university - Federal category: women enrolled in a rugby club (non-professional) which is part of a federation - Children category (between 9 and 12 years old) This week of festival will be the opportunity to promote and disseminate Rugby 7. It entails tournaments and many activities such as conferences, exhibitions, and training sessions. The festival will be the tribune to discuss and highlight social inclusion, equality gender and leadership (SCORE© program). A web platform will be created dedicated for the festival where the teams will have access to all the details of the event and best practices on Rugby. A continuous benchmark will be realized to increment new best practices all along the years to come. In order to guaranty the success of this event, a large communication and dissemination plan will be implemented before during and after the festival via digital dissemination supports and traditional medias. The Association Alice Milliat aims to create sustainable European events to make concrete actions in order to promote women sports and gender equality. The festival in 2020 is the first edition starting a long series that will happen every year.