ISCA Annual Report 2021

ISCA ANNUAL REPORT

ANNUAL REPORT

2021

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OUR VISION

A world of physically active citizens in vibrant civil societies OUR MISSION

We empower organisations worldwide to enable citizens to enjoy their human right to move

The International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) is a global platform open to organisations working within the field of sport for all, recreational sports and physical activity.

Created in 1995, ISCA cooperates with its 287 member organisations, international NGOs, and public and private sector stakeholders. It has 40 million individual members from 89 countries which represent a diverse group of people active within youth, sport and cultural activities.

‘Strandvejen’, organised by Gentofte

ISCA ANNUAL REPORT 3Greater Running Club and DGI Copenhagen in support of the European Mile and European Week of Sport in Denmark, invited families and physical activity enthusiasts alike to #BeActive and participate in a 5K or a one-mile race. (see pp. 38-39).

CONTENTS 04 President’s Introduction

28 Campaigns

05 ISCA in Numbers

30 MOVE Week

06 Collection of ISCA Numbers 2021

31 MOVE Week Latin America

08 ISCA General Assembly

32 No Elevators Day

10 Advocacy

34 European Mile

12 Debunking the ‘Sport Model’ myth

36 European School Sport Day

13 HealthyLifestyle4All Pledge

38 European Week of Sport Denmark

14 Thematic Projects

40 Members’ and Partners’ Projects

16 Physical Literacy for Life

42 ISCA’s European Volunteers

18 MOVE for Fun

44 ISCA Executive Commitee

20 MOVE Transfer Europe-China

45 ISCA Staff

22 IRTS Networking Platform

46 Finances

24 MOVE Congress 2021

47 ISCA Membership

26 Learn.isca.org

48 Become a Member

ISCA Annual Report 2021 COPYRIGHT International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) LAYOUT ISCA Secretariat / Kristine Onarheim

EDITOR Rachel Payne, ISCA

PUBLISHER CATEGORY

DATE AND PLACE

COVER IMAGE Freestyle footballer Maymi Asgari shows the MOVE Congress audience her football tricks (photo credit: Simon Pugh).

23 March 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark LANGUAGE English

Non-Governmental Organisation

DISCLAIMER ISCA has recieved EU support for many of the activities in this report. However this publication reflects the views only of the author, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any of the information contained therein.

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Reconnect, rebuild

AND RESTART Two years of restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have led to a significant decrease in sport participation across the world. In several countries it has prevented sports clubs from operating – some have even stopped existing – resulting in fewer volunteer trainers and coaches being able to help others play the sports they enjoy.

Many organisations, even those driven by voluntary support, remain persistent and have the ability to overcome these difficulties. However, after not only one, but two years of being severely limited in their delivery of recreational sport and physical activity, their situation is clearly critical, too.

1, 2, 3 – GO! We are gradually moving away from how sport and physical activity were delivered in the past, so it is no longer a question of simply restarting what we did before Covid-19.

It is more a question of making a new start – a start that includes many new people, both in terms of the organisers and the participants.

In November 2021 we hosted the 10th edition of the MOVE Congress in Brussels, Belgium. We were determined to create a unique event for leaders and ‘doers’ from the recreational sport and physical activity sector. We wanted to make this MOVE Congress a physical gathering of those who are devoted to MOVING PEOPLE, just as we have with our previous congresses – but naturally respecting the current restrictions.

President’s introduction MOGENS KIRKEBY | ISCA President

The reward was greatly encouraging for us. The 250 people who attended in person, representing 130 entities from 40 countries, made me happy, humble and proud. Thank you to the ISCA members, partners and supporters who joined in the MOVE Congress 2021 for actively underlining the importance of the congress title: to RECONNECT, REBUILD and RESTART. MORE ATTENTION AND SUPPORT, PLEASE! The engagement from the people and organisations we met during the MOVE Congress and our other activities in 2021 strongly highlights their shared passion and readiness to RECONNECT, REBUILD and RESTART. But we kindly ask for more engagement, attention and support from sectors beyond our own.

The benefits are clear. The grassroots sport and physical activity sector helps people to build their social, mental and physical resilience, and it doesn’t cost much to do so – even when a pandemic hits the world. It also adds more happiness to our lives, from our childhoods to when we become seniors.

We have the readiness and ability to RESTART now and we have to act fast. But we rely on dedicated supporters to avoid prolonged negative consequences from two years of restrictions. So we encourage our members and partners to reach out, share your passion, stories and solutions to attract more attention from financial and political decision-makers.

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in numbers

287 89 FROM

DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

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MOVE CONGRESSES

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40 REPRESENTING

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS

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EU GRANTS

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STAFF MEMBERS

towards one goal:

COUNTRIES

YEARS OF THE NOWWEMOVE CAMPAIGN

MILLION PEOPLE

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ONLINE LEARNING COURSES

9,417 WORKING MORE THAN

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NowWeMOVE Events

546,245

2,198,000 school children on the move

miles donated European Mile

• 590,000 participants • 546,245 miles donated (we can also find total amount of money donated? Irina may know - €10,000 plus €1000, €750 and individual countries’ donation amounts?)

• 1742 events • Cost of #MovingPeople: 83 euro cents per person

European School Sport Day • 2,198,000 school children • 10,714 schools • Cost of #MovingPeople: 14 euro cents per person

55 countries No Elevators Day, European Mile, MOVE Week & MOVE Week Latin America, European School Sport Day • 55 countries (total) • 5 continents

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in-person MOVE Congress participants MOVE Congress • 250 in-person participants • 40 countries • 64 speakers

Other

500,000 participants

European Week of Sport Denmark/Danmarks Motionsuge • 500,000 participants • 8000 events

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social media followers Social media followers • Facebook ISCA Page: 7171 followers

• Twitter @ISCA_Tweet: 4009 followers • LinkedIn: 2993 followers • Instagram @isca.official: 508 followers • Facebook NowWeMOVE: 40,677 followers • Twitter @NowWeMove: 1605 followers • Instagram @nowwemove_: 1020 followers

438,500 impressions Media • 183 articles published on ISCA-run websites (1 every 2 days!)

• 81 videos published on ISCA YouTube channels • 15 newsletters • 10 webinars • 6 infographics • 2 podcasts • 438,500 impressions on ISCA owned social media channels (total)

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online project meetings Other • Number of in-person project meetings in 2021: 24 • Number of online project meetings in 2021: 109 • Milestone: Launch of iscaorg in November 2021

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ISCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND ELECTIONS 2021 New ISCA Vice President and Executive Committee members elected Come and take a cosy seat in the Cinema auditorium at Maison de la Poste in Brussels, snuggle in and read this short story about the ISCA General Assembly 2021, where we welcomed 27 new ISCA members and three new Executive Committee Members: Vice President Helen Vost from Youth Sport Trust International, UK, Daniela Conti from UISP, Italy, and Patrice Roder from UFOLEP, France.

After the 10th MOVE Congress in Brussels, Belgium, ISCA members from across the world gathered for the biennial General Assembly on 20 November to make some key decisions about ISCA’s future. As the democratic foundation of the organisation, the delegates elected the new ISCA Executive Committee for the next two years.

They also discussed and adopted a new strategy for 2022-2025, which emphasises ISCA’s drive to succeed as a member-based umbrella and prioritises digital development, convening power and partnerships as ISCA’s strategic enablers. The MOVE Congress was adopted as a stand-alone operational pillar, complementing ISCA Projects, the NowWeMOVE Campaign, and Advocacy as the key ISCA intervention areas.

Of course, we didn’t spend the whole time snuggled into our seats – we also paused for some active breaks and getto-know-you games led by Youth Officer Shubham Mane.

NEW MEMBERSHIP OFFER AND WEBSITE REVEALED “ISCA is its members – its members are ISCA” is a mantra often heard in ISCA circles, and the General Assembly formally adopted 27 new members as part of our global network of grassroots sport promoters. It also reviewed and adopted a new membership offer and fee structure (see back page), which were revealed along with ISCA’s long-awaited new website isca.org.

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ISCA Executive Committee 2021-2023 PRESIDENT Mr Mogens Kirkeby

(Nominated by DGI, Denmark)

VICE PRESIDENTS Ms Maria Luiza Souza Dias

Ms Helen Vost NEW

Ms Daniela Conti NEW

Prof Dr Michael Tiemann

(Nominated by SESC – Serviço Social do Comércio, Brazil)

(Nominated by Youth Sport Trust International, UK)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ms Liliana Ortiz De La Cruz

(Nominated by Fundación Pro Deporte y Recreaction para todos, Colombia)

Mr Patrice Roder NEW

(Nominated by UFOLEP, France)

(Nominated by UISP, Italy) – new

Mr Jakub Kalinowski

(Nominated by V4SPORT Foundation, Poland)

(Nominated by DTB, Germany)

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A critical and constructive voice for our sector ISCA advocates the value that our network of member organisations and stakeholders possesses at a societal level by highlighting compelling evidence, role models, change-makers and strong, evidence- and value-based opinions. We assist ISCA members in their advocacy efforts at national and local levels and promote joint international advocacy efforts. We believe in the power of the doers, and we demonstrate our values and opinions through our thematic projects, the NowWeMOVE Campaign and the MOVE Congress.

Guided by our Executive Committee, we want to be a critical and constructive voice that is not afraid to speak up, also when it comes to controversial matters.

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Elite Sport

ELITE SPORT

Competitive Sport

HIGH LEVEL COMPETITIVE SPORT

Recreational Sport The Pyramid Model of Sport

COMPETITIVE SPORT

PARTICIPATION SPORT

The Church Model of Sport: Our illustration is based on the Church Model developed by Scheerder (2007) to provide a more realistic representation of sport participation than the Pyramid Model.

THE PYRAMID MODEL OF SPORT Debunking the myths Over the past two years, ISCA has been strongly involved in describing the reality of how sport is organised in Europe.

One could ask: How hard can it be to describe this reality?

It should not be difficult to conclude that European sport is organised by a wide variety of organisations and with a huge diversity of stakeholders, ranging from civil society to public and commercial sectors. This diversity extends our reach and the positive impact of our collective efforts assists more people to become MOVING PEOPLE. But some organisations see it differently. Very differently.

Led by Olympic Committees and some sports federations, it is claimed that sport in Europe is organised within a so-called Pyramid Model. This model has one federation per sport and one multisport organisation per country that is recognised by public authorities. The assumption is that this pyramid model provides a huge amount of resources from elite to grassroots sport.

But this assumption is essentially a myth. Funding for grassroots sport, health and participation-oriented sport comes primarily from the participants themselves,

including via public sector, mostly municipal, support.

And the majority of countries have diverse organisational structures, of course including single sport federations.

The diverse national organisations are typically oriented towards grassroots sport participation, including school sport, company sport, senior sport as well as club sport.

The promotion of the incorrect narrative about a unitary, pyramidal model of sport in Europe is contested by ISCA and other organisations, as well as sports researchers like Scheerder (2007), who propose that a Church Model is a more accurate way to represent elite and highlevel competitive sport participation (in the spire) and community-level competitive sport and participation (in the main structure). We need a narrative of sport that reflects the reality and the principle of Freedom of Association, not a narrative of an outdated pyramid model that actually excludes most sports organisations.

That is the message we have promoted in sessions with the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.

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HealthyLifestyle4All Launch

ISCA JOINS PLEDGE ISCA was invited by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport, Mariya Gabriel, and 16 international and European sports bodies to launch the European Commission’s new HealthyLifestyle4All initiative in Bled prior to the official opening of the European Week of Sport on 23 September 2021.

During the ceremony, ISCA submitted a joint pledge with the Youth Health Community, JOGG and Schuttelaar & Partners to organise a policy building event at European Parliament to gather stakeholder engagement for the new initiative. The pledge, presented in support of the collaborative theme ‘Teaming up for a holistic approach to food, health, well-being and sport’, proposes that ISCA will: • Work with pledge partners Youth Health Community, JOGG and Schuttelaar & Partners to deliver a dedicated HealthyLifestyle4All policy and coalition building event in the European Parliament as soon as Covid-19 restrictions allow.

• Invite a broad section of stakeholders to partner and contribute to the event and commit to joining forces for healthy lifestyle policy collaboration in the next two years.

• Monitor and report on the commitments from the event during 2022 and 2023.

• Facilitate that MEPs, European Commission DG representatives and key European stakeholders for healthy lifestyle promotion discuss policy opportunities.

• Launch our own healthy lifestyle commitments together with Youth Health Communities, JOGG and Schuttelaar & Partners.

Then, on 23 November, the European Parliament adopted a long awaited report on sport based on an extensive study requested by its CULT Committee. The report was tabled

by MEP Tomasz Frankowski, who accepted substantial input from ISCA in preparation of the final version, which emphasises “enhancing the principles of a European sports model” (see opposite page) and “acknowledg(ing) the diversity of approaches across sports and countries”.

The HealthyLifestyle4All initiative is supported by: International Sport Bodies and Partners

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC), International School Sport Federation (ISF), International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), World Health Organisation (WHO)

European Sport Movement

EU Athletes, EuropeActive, European Olympic Committees (EOC), European University Sports Association (EUSA), European Volleyball Confederation (CEV), European NonGovernmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO), European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation Youth (ENGSO Youth), Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

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Cross-cutting topics develop expertise beyond sport ISCA wants to demonstrate the value of grassroots sport and physical activity in achieving wider societal goals, including the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

We believe that bringing ISCA members and specialist organisations together to work on thematic projects ensures that all partners develop their expertise, make progress and create resources based on diverse international experience.

We identify global trends and listen to our members’ needs to explore the sector from innovative angles, so the themes we address are typically cross-cutting topics of broader societal relevance (rather than activity- or sport-specific).

Our projects are designed to benefit the participating partners as well as our wider network by providing tools, evidence, inspiration and learning opportunities, including on our online learning platform learn.isca.org.

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PHYSICAL LITERACY FOR LIFE Variety of resources now available

In recent years, the concept of physical literacy has been noted to have influenced practice and policy in education, sport, recreation, health and the environment. The term is now included in the Council of Europe’s European Sport Charter and it is also used by UNESCO and the World Health Organisation.

The importance of physical literacy becomes evident as individuals engage with the world and learn how to move their bodies for social, aesthetic, competitive, and even survival reasons. This process is a lifelong journey where every individual engages in physical activity based on their disposition and learning, and gains pleasure from being active, which in turn motivates them to stay active.

During the two-year project, ISCA led a consortium of 11 partners from grassroots sport, education and health, who created brand new resources for teachers, club staff and the general public to promote physical literacy. We launched a website dedicated to physical literacy, which features everything from a one-minute introductory video to training tools and podcasts.

These resources are aimed to help stakeholders gain a more consistent understanding of what physical literacy means and why the concept should be promoted widely in their activities.

They were tested by 50 teachers and club-based trainers in Bulgaria, France, Slovenia and Spain over ten months and launched at multiplier events in Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain in 2021.

PROJECT PARTNERS International Sport and Culture Association (lead), European Physical Education Association (Switzerland), International Physical Literacy Association (UK), Macquarie University (Australia), Human Kinetics Faculty of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Strasbourg (France), Steno Health Promotion Research and Capital Region of Denmark Center for Clinical Research and Prevention (Denmark), BG Be Active (Bulgaria), DGI (Denmark), Sports Union of Slovenia, and UBAE (Spain). physical-literacy.isca.org

Key facts • Project period: January 2020-December 2021 • Co-funded by: European Commission (Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships) • Grant amount: €383,603

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Physical Literacy Resources Definition and position statements: The project partners’ definition of physical literacy pays particular attention to the four domains through which physical literacy is acquired and demonstrated (cognitive, emotional, physical and social).

Self-assessment tool: Questionnaires for citizens, teachers and trainers to reflect on their own physical literacy and how they can it apply to their work.

Advocacy toolkit: Two motion graphic videos and a guide on how to start working with the concept and how to promote environments for effective teaching and acquisition of physical literacy.

Training tool: An online resource for PE teachers, trainers and coaches to understand the concept and reflect on how they provide environments that foster physical literacy within their communities.

Podcasts: Two in-depth interviews with physical literacy experts including Margaret Whitehead and Nigel Green from the International Physical Literacy Association (UK), Dean Dudley from Macquarie University (Australia), and Rose-Marie Repond from EUPEA (Switzerland).

Scan the QR-code To access these resources and more information about physical literacy

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MOVE FOR FUN Pilots aim to get disadvantaged children moving

In 2021, two ISCA members began rolling out a successful Danish initiative for vulnerable children in Poland and the UK in an international partnership called Move For Fun, led by ISCA, our Danish member DGI and Novo Nordisk.

Move For Fun is based on a concept developed by DGI called Jump4Fun, which started in 2013 as a special initiative for vulnerable children who did not usually participate in traditional sporting activities. V4Sport (Poland) and Youth Sport Trust’s (UK) 18-month pilots aim to engage 10,000 children aged 6-12 from disadvantaged communities in Move For Fun exercises delivered in schools as part of the lessons or as an extra-curricular activity.

DGI President Charlotte Bach Thomassen notes that 92% of children who have taken part in the programme in Denmark say they are happier when they move, and that this is a strong sign of the potential to test the initiative in other countries.

“At DGI we have extensive experience and knowledge of what motivates children to be active. The Jump4Fun activities are designed for inactive and vulnerable children to take part in social sporting activities in their leisure time. We are thrilled that in this collaboration with Novo Nordisk and ISCA we can export the programme to other countries and customise it to their local needs,” she says.

ISCA and the project partners see this as only the start of the initiative’s expansion, and are looking at further opportunities to test the model in other countries after the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We hope that this partnership between DGI, ISCA and the local organisations will become a sustainable model for encouraging more children in disadvantaged communities to be active. Physical inactivity and health inequalities are global problems that demand new solutions by working across sectors,” Niels Lund, Novo Nordisk Vice President for Global Prevention and Health Promotion, adds. dgi.dk/moveforfun

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New project: Future MOVE At the end of 2021, ISCA received funding from the Danish Civil Society in Development Fund (CISU) to develop a Danish conceptual framework and curriculum for Sport for Development projects and test it at the Gerlev Sports Academy in Demark. Future MOVE will map 30 projects across the world that use sport for all to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and empower 540 Gerlev students to engage directly with at least one of them during and beyond their 4-month stay.

The students will experience different levels of hands-on involvement in the projects and will be encouraged to continue their engagement as endorsers, contributors, owners and leaders.

Project period: 8 December 2021-7 June 2024 • Co-funded by: Civil Society Fund and the Civic Engagement Fund (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Grant amount: €134,000

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MOVE TRANSFER EUROPE-CHINA International dialogue is the way forward Over 30 months, ISCA’s MOVE Transfer EuropeChina project connected organisations from Europe, China, Hong Kong and Macao who work in the field of grassroots sport. The transfer of knowledge and inspiration focused on three universal themes within the sector: Active Schools, Outdoor Activities and Active Ageing. The overall task was to build bridges between the different cultures and traditional sport practices.

The emerging Covid-19 restrictions naturally challenged the collaboration, but it did not stop the international and intercultural dialogue. To keep everyone connected, the project’s meetings and final conference took place in three formats (online, offline and hybrid) and in four different “bubbles” (Europe, Hong Kong/Macao, Nanjing and Beijing). While participants from Europe, Latin America, United States, Hong Kong and other regions

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Sport is an important means of communication and cultural exchange between countries.

PROFESSOR YIYI JIANG | Beijing Sport University

joined the event online, the partners in Nanjing and Beijing had the opportunity to meet face-to-face and even organise study tours in China.

The final conference was held in connection with the World Leisure Congress on 15-21 April 2021, where the project partners had 13 presentations accepted as part of the programme. In addition to the official conference programme, five workshops were held on 19-21 April and the 80 participants, who represented 40 organisations from 20 countries, took part in break-out discussions on the following topics: • Magic Formula for Active Communities • (After Covid-19) Re-START • Grassroots Sport Diplomacy and Intercultural Dialogue (featuring Prof Dr Thierry Zintz from the University of Louvain and Prof Yi Yi Jiang from Beijing Sport University) • The way forward: Proposals from the MOVE Transfer EuropeChina project partners • International dimension of the new Erasmus+ Programme (featuring European Commission speakers Adrian Veale, from the International Cooperation Unit, Floor Van Houdt, Head of the Sport Unit, and Naïs Rigollet from the Sport Unit)

Although this was the project’s final event, the cooperation and exchange between the European and Chinese partners will continue. The next step will be to maintain the network of more than 50 sport organisations and institutions and work together on more initiatives under the project’s sub-themes, including in the Moving Schools Alliance. move-transfer.com movingschoolsalliance.isca.org

Key facts • Project period: January 2019-June 2021 (extended due to Covid-19) • Co-funded by: European Commission (Preparatory Action Exchanges and Mobility in Sport) • Grant amount: €240,000

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Integration of Refugees Through Sport

ROLE MODELS SHINE IN THE ‘SPORTLIGHT’ ISCA’s Integration of Refugees Through Sport (IRTS) Network continued to grow in 2021 – not only to encompass more individuals and organisations who work in the field, but also to include and highlight refugee leaders in community sport.

At the MOVE Congress 2021 in Brussels, powerful and inspiring keynotes from Girl Power founder and former Afghan women’s national football captain Khalida Popal and Save the Children migration expert Adnan Abdul Ghani set the scene for the conference opening and ISCA Awards ceremony, as well as a unique workshop led entirely by former refugees and migrants who are now sport coaches, coordinators and influencers.

Football freestyler Maymi Asgari lit up the stage with the tricks that have made her a social media star, and #BeActive Local Hero nominee and IRTS mentee Nagin Ravand gave valuable insights into including refugees in decision- and policy-making during the MOVE Congress panel discussion ‘Rebuild: Inclusion in the Sportlight’. The

key message: involving refugees in designing inclusion projects and initiatives is a MUST as community sport rebuilds after the pandemic.

AWARDS SCHEME The ISCA Awards in 2021 recognised IRTS best practices and role models. The shortlisted nominees gathered at the MOVE Congress opening for the awards ceremony, and the winners were revealed by four of the jury members who had determined the final selection in three of the categories. The winner of the fourth category, the IRTS Role Model, was selected through an online public vote.

As well as receiving a trip to Brussels to take part in the whole of ISCA’s MOVE Congress on 17-19 November 2021, the winners each received a cash prize of 3000 euro and will be invited to participate in ISCA’s IRTS international conference with expenses paid in 2022.

MENTORING PROGRAMME The second round of the IRTS Mentoring Programme kicked off in October-November 2021 as 11 new mentees

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ISCA Awards 2021 Nominees IRTS CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP • Run Free (Belgium) WINNER • CAP Ciudad de Murcia (Spain) • Kraainem Football Club (Belgium) INTEGRATION OF WOMEN AND GIRL REFUGEES THROUGH SPORT • JUNO - a voice for refugee women (Germany) WINNER

• Bike Bridge e.V. (Germany) • Girl Power (Denmark) IRTS INNOVATION DURING COVID-19 • Futbol Más (France) WINNER • Netball America Inc. (USA) • Youth Sport Trust International (UK) IRTS ROLE MODEL • Gerald Mballe, Special Olympics (Italy) WINNER • Khalida Popal, Girl Power (Denmark) • Gibril Deen, Mahatma Gandhi Human Rights Organisation (Hungary)

began a year of intensive peer-to-peer learning matched with experts from their field. As this round gains momentum, the mentors and mentees will participate in monthly oneon-one meetings and check-ins with the whole group, and participate in the IRTS conference in 2022.

ONLINE LEARNING ISCA is also using its online learning channels to showcase the IRTS Networking Platform partners’ experiences in working with refugees in community sport. We hosted five IRTS webinars in 2021, featuring speakers from the International Olympic Truce Centre, Save the Children, FC Barcelona Foundation and many more (see page 26).

NEW NORDIC-BALTIC PROJECT With a new Nordplus project grant, ISCA is teaming up with Monaliiku, Finland, and Viken Idrettskrets (VIK)/Viken Sport Region, Norway, to build on our existing IRTS network in the Nordic and Baltic region and launch a 5-module online course in 2022. irts.isca.org

I want everyone to participate and have their own light… If you want to support [refugees], let’s share the light.”

KHALIDA POPAL Girl Power Founder

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MOVE Congress 2021

RECONNECT. REBUILD. RESTART. After two years of meeting via computer and mobile screens across countries and continents, 300 physical activity promoters from 40 countries reconnected in person from 17-19 November 2021 at the MOVE Congress in Brussels. The opening of the MOVE Congress at Tour & Taxis’ Maison de la Poste venue kicked off two days of active networking and expert-led presentations, panels and workshops. Here are a few of the many highlights.

#NowWeJuggle!

“Nothing about us without us”

How to restart friendlier

Will Borrell from Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles led a mini-workshop for the audience at the opening, throwing one, two, three... SEVEN juggling balls into the air! Then a cricket bat, football and tennis racquet?! Everything is possible, he said – and if you drop one, you just RESTART.

The Day 2 plenary featured a discussion panel of experts voicing the points of view of people who are typically – and often systemically – excluded from sport and physical activity. We put inclusion in the “sportlight” and asked why sport has failed to provide safe and inclusive spaces for girls and women, refugees and migrants, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ participants.

“Part of the theme here is Restart – but how?”

Lars AP, the founder of the Danish F***ing Friendly movement asked the audience.

“When you use your playfulness, your sport and your interest for it, you bring people together and you move people. And when [you’re] moving people, they don’t only move physically, but they get moved emotionally and that’s just spectacular.”

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Re-live all the highlights Read recaps of all MOVE Congress 2021 sessions at the official website and watch selected presentations and interviews on our YouTube channel. We hope you’ll be inspired to join us at the MOVE Congress 2023!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE

YOUTUBE

How to reconnect in an active way

How to keep going

Did you know?

The MOVE Congress is one of the most active conferences in the world, and our six interactive workshops got the participants on their feet to reconnect with their colleagues, meet new people and have fun. Active breaks led by our workshop moderators and volunteers sparked some energy and plenty of laughs into the room.

And teamwork was needed to solve a factcollecting treasure hunt (above), where standard “Powerpoint information” was repackaged into creative conversation-starters.

“Four thousand people have been on top of Everest,” said Guin Batten, member of the world’s first all-female crew to row across the Atlantic Ocean from west to east. “700 have rowed an ocean, only 61 rowed this particular bit that we took, which is the wrong way, three of those people were women, six have died trying.

Only 38% of rowers who leave from the US or Canada actually make it across the ocean.”

The final number of speakers, including workshop moderators and ISCA Awards presenters, was 66 – and an equal number of women (33) and men (33) took to the stage.

This was a MOVE Congress first!

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LEARN.ISCA.ORG A feast of courses, webinars and podcasts is served on ISCA’s online learning channels ISCA served up a feast of courses, webinars and podcasts for sport and physical activity professionals throughout 2021 and all are available to complete, watch or listen ondemand.

In April and May alone, we offered five webinars to tempt the appetite of physical activity promoters with a craving to learn more about placemaking, organising running events in pandemic times, Erasmus+, physical literacy and social inclusion.

We also shared exclusive insights into physical literacy from one of the pioneers of the concept, Margaret Whitehead, and experts Dean Dudley, Nigel Green and Rose-Marie Repond from ISCA’s Physical Literacy for

Life project. On request from the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union conference, ‘Can sport diplomacy contribute to building a stronger Europe in the world?’, we also launched our Grassroots Sport Diplomacy introductory course in Portuguese.

Throughout the year, ISCA Project Coordinator Monika Resetar hosted a series of Integration of Refugees Through Sport networking webinars featuring speakers from the Barca Foundation, Save the Children, the German Olympic Sports Confederation and more.

We can’t wait to serve more learning opportunities on our platforms in 2022!

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EUROPEAN MILE WEBINAR How do you get every child to move every day?

IRTS NETWORKING PLATFORM WEBINAR Covid-19 – or when control and planning are overrated

IRTS NETWORKING PLATFORM WEBINAR Never Stop Learning!

Planning and having things under control during a pandemic can be very hard, but with flexibility, creativity and cooperation, we can adapt.

This interactive workshop featured the German Olympic Sports Confederation, RF/SISU and StreetGames Gothenburg, and Croatian Taekwondo club Jastreb.

PHYSICAL LITERACY FOR LIFE PODCAST A conversation with International Physical Literacy Association and Macquarie University

PHYSICAL LITERACY FOR LIFE PODCAST New perspectives on physical literacy with Dean Dudley Experts Dean Dudley and Rose-Marie Repond take an in-depth look at physical literacy from fresh angles, including how it can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Planning and having things under control during a pandemic can be very hard, but with flexibility, creativity and cooperation, we can adapt.

Why is physical literacy gaining interest and traction around the world with academics, practitioners and policy makers? We find out from Margaret Whitehead, Nigel Green and Dean Dudley.

IRTS NETWORKING PLATFORM WEBINAR Step up with refugees!

EUROPEAN MILE WEBINAR Organising running events for a charitable cause

Active Stairs Design for No Elevators Day

Derby County Community Trust developed its fundraising portfolio not only to raise unrestricted funds, but to support other charities with donations of up to £33,000 a year. We discovered how.

Featuring Placemaking Europe, the US Center for Active Design and Canadian consultant Attivo Designs, we shared practical tips on how to use staircases for placemaking and physical activity.

IRTS NETWORKING PLATFORM WEBINAR Include everyone!

IRTS NETWORKING PLATFORM WEBINAR Work together for a bigger impact!

LEARN.ISCA.ORG Grassroots Sport Diplomacy Course

This webinar features examples from Austria and Romania of empowering refugee and migrant women and girls to lead community sport initiatives for adults and children.

Lucy Mills and Laura Sentis from Barca Foundation (the official foundation of FC Barcelona) give exclusive insights into how they establish partnerships with various international stakeholders.

A Portuguese version of our Grassroots Sport Diplomacy introductory course is now online and we will launch more courses on learn.isca.org in 2022.

Adnan Abdul Ghani from Save the Children, a migration expert and a refugee from Syria who started a movement to train refugees to lead community activities, shares his insights and expertise.

NO ELEVATORS DAY WEBINAR

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Growing our international physical activity movement NowWeMOVE is ISCA’s “skin in the game”. It is our handson contribution that enables ISCA members and MOVE Agents to stage physical activity events under a shared international brand. In 2021 we continued to deploy and evolve our flagship NowWeMOVE events, MOVE Week and No Elevators Day, and tested a new event concept called the European Mile. We also continued our support for the European Week of Sport as part of our campaign efforts and as the National Coordinating Body for Denmark, and helped to coordinate the joint NowWeMOVE and #BeActive flagship event European School Sport Day. We aim to ensure the reach and relevance of the NowWeMOVE campaign on all continents.

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MOVE Week

TURNS 10!

Launched in 2012, ISCA’s MOVE Week turned 10 in 2021 and was celebrated with physical events and online MOVE Week Gym sessions on five continents from 31 May to 6 June, featuring the new European Mile on 5 June.

MOVE Agents in 23 countries delivered activities during the European MOVE Week in May and nine countries participated in the Latin American MOVE Week (Semana Move and Semana Muévela) in September. Wherever possible, they organised traditional offline MOVE Week events – from gentle stretching to full body workouts, and from special activities for children, students and the elderly to all-inclusive sessions.

MOVE Week 2021 in numbers • 29 countries (total MOVE Week & Semana Muévela) • 4 continents • 639 events on moveweek.eu • 20 MOVE Week Gym online workouts

The biggest numbers of activities took place in Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria and a total of 639 events were registered on the moveweek.eu website. Our online MOVE Week Gym hosted 20 sessions with trainers of diverse profiles delivering workout sessions from 13 countries. These daily workouts, streamed on YouTube and Facebook, turned out to be popular among viewers all over the world: from Costa Rica to Turkey, Russia to Australia, Poland to Brazil.

On and around 5 June, MOVE Agents celebrated the European Mile – even in Brazil where SESC broadcast a live session on its channels and held in-person events.

The European Mile Live virtual tour of Europe celebrated people moving together with a fun animated sightseeing walk streamed by V4Sport from Poland.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2021: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey. moveweek.eu

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Passing the flag

FROM EUROPE TO LATIN AMERICA In a fun animated video created by our MOVE Week lead coordinator in Latin America, SESC São Paulo, the NowWeMOVE mascot carried the MOVE Week flag from Europe to Latin America to warm up for the 9th Semana Move and Semana Muévela on 18-26 September 2021. ISCA Vice President Maria Luiza Souza Dias explains the inspiration behind the animation: “Considering MOVE Week as a global event that takes place on 5 continents, in 2021 we put into practice a strategy of connecting the MOVE Week held in May/ June in Europe and on other continents with the MOVE Week held in September in Latin America.

We carried out several initiatives that marked the connection between the events. For example, SESC Interlagos joined the ‘European Digital Mile’ in June, promoting the Meus 20 Minutos (My20minutes), and videos were created by MOVE Week partners in Colombia, Uruguay, Cuba, Costa Rica and Brazil.

In 2020 and 2021, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the partners promoted initiatives in the digital environment through different social media, which brought us many benefits. In particular, it boosted connectivity among the participants and organisations, allowing us to reach different audiences through a variety of formats and in three languages, Spanish, Portuguese and English.”

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2021: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. semanamuevela.com

Scan the QR-code Ready, set, go! The NowWeMOVE mascot passes the MOVE Week flag from Europe to Latin America.

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#USETHESTAIRS The 7th edition of No Elevators Day was celebrated on 28 April, uniting diverse participants from different corners of the world: organisations, individuals and even animals! With an impressive amount of pictures and videos shared with the hashtags #NoElevatorsDay and #UseTheStairs, No Elevators Day was enthusiastically embraced after a challenging year and showed how much people have been missing MOVEment.

Many creative ways to use the stairs for outdoor and indoor physical activities were showcased by sport organisations, banks, medical centres, gyms, educational institutions and individuals in Spain, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria (pictured left and above), Poland, Serbia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Turkey, Albania and even Mexico.

This year also saw a high level of engagement from governmental and international institutions. Thanks to content shared by the EU Sport Unit, the EU Commission’s DG Health & Food Safety (SANTE), Lisbon City Hall, the European Commission in Malta, the International Erasmus Games, Stair Climbing Australia and Placemaking Europe, which co-hosted a webinar with us, our efforts were noticed by more stakeholders and target audiences than ever before.

One of the most impressive efforts to illustrate the link between physical activity and public spaces, the main theme of No Elevators Day 2021, was the BG Be Active initiative to paint orange the stairs of the Alyosha’s monument in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. With this temporary urban intervention, the association managed to promote the need for more daily physical activity and highlight the stairs as a wonderful place for training and movement.

In Romania, a group of athletics enthusiasts from the Suceava High School’s Sports Program climbed the stairs to the Seat Fortress of Suceava – a distance that is equal to the elevation of Mount Fuji in Japan: 3776 metres!

Nicola Vaptsarov school in Botevgrad, Bulgaria, stood out with an amazing collection of photos demonstrating the tremendous efforts of teachers and students in celebrating No Elevators Day with essays and poems, posters and information boards, “sealed”′′ elevators in public and residential buildings in Botevgrad and a sports game event at school – all done to promote the cause of active movement in widely accessible places. no-elevators-day.nowwemove.com

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CELEBRATED WITH 1742 EVENTS IN 32 COUNTRIES

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ISCA’s newest event kicked off at the start of 2021 with an invitation for people to get back into physical activity at their own pace – by running or walking a mile (1.6km) or more. The European Mile campaign was celebrated in 32 countries, promoting the message that every move and every mile counts towards better health and wellbeing, and that it’s easy to find the time and space to #FindYourMile.

Some European Mile events launched the Daily Mile at new schools, meaning that many children will continue with the Daily Mile challenge beyond the event. Being associated with the Daily Mile and European Mile also helped some of the organisers generate more awareness of their national activities through TV and radio coverage and new partnerships.

The target was 1000 events, but the NowWeMOVE National Coordinators and MOVE Agents almost doubled this goal by organising 1742 events, where a total of just under 590,000 participants found their mile by running, walking, skiing and cycling. Many donated their miles towards local causes and/or the campaign’s international charity, the Daily Mile Foundation.

The European Mile reunited MOVE Agents face-to-face with their participants and spectators, and many remarked that the high levels of attendance reflected people’s “hunger” to move again together after the Covid-19 lockdowns.

Participants ranged from pre-school children to seniors, people with disabilities, families, elite athletes, military, prisoners, conference delegates and even dogs! In fact, the Dog Race in Chisinau, Moldova, set a national record for the most dogs (and their owners) starting a race.

The official day for celebrating the European Mile was 5 June, but events were also held to coincide with other occasions, including World Autism Awareness Day in Croatia, Children’s Day in the Czech Republic and Open Ski Festival in Serbia. Virtual events also gathered people online, with Digital Miles streamed by V4Sport in Poland, Athletics Ireland and SESC in Brazil.

IMPACT AND LEGACY Almost 10,000 participants donated a total of 546,245 miles, which were then converted to a cash donation of 10,000 euro to the Daily Mile Foundation. The funds will support the foundation’s initiatives to get more children around Europe moving for at least 15 minutes every day.

Local communities were “delighted and proud to participate in a European project” and many events gained support from municipalities and politicians (including the Norwegian Minister for Culture). Clubs and the NowWeMOVE National Coordinators have expressed their interest in continuing with the initiative in 2022.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, UK and US. europeanmile.com

Key facts • Project period: November 2020-December 2021 • Co-funded by: European Commission (Erasmus+ Sport Not-for-Profit Events) • Grant amount: €488,368.80

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EUROPEAN SCHOOL SPORT DAY Schools return to event in large numbers in 2021

The European Week of Sport’s largest flagship event, European School Sport Day®, demonstrated again on 24 September 2021 the determination of schools around Europe to get their students back “on the MOVE” after Covid-19 restrictions had limited school-based sporting activities.

With a little fewer than 2 million children joining in the event in 2020, European School Sport Day® only experienced a slight decline in participation relative to the severity of the pandemic. But in 2021, the event rebounded significantly, as the number of individual participants increased again by 10% (to 2,198,000) and the total number of schools taking part increased by 20% (from 8,974 to 10,714). Celebrations of the Day also continued across continents, with schools in Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia and Peru organising activities again, and 40 countries in total registered their participation on the official website.

European School Sport Day® is coordinated by the Hungarian School Sport Federation (HSSF) in cooperation with the founding partners, ISCA, the European Physical Education Association, Youth Sport Trust International, BG Be Active and V4Sport, and National Coordinators from around Europe.

Key facts • Coordinator: Hungarian School Sport Federation • Co-funded by: European Commission (Erasmus+ Sport Not-for-Profit Events) • Grant amount: €298,485

REIMAGINING SCHOOL SPACES AS MOVEMENT SPACES The theme of 7th European School Sport Day® was ‘Transform a school space into a MOVEment space’. It was a timely reminder to build on what we learned in 2020: that many public outdoor spaces are safe and accessible places to keep children active during physical education classes, school sport, active breaks, recess, active lessons and other opportunities that can be integrated into the school day.

ISCA and HSSF worked together to produce a toolkit guiding schools how to reimagine their grounds as MOVEment Spaces, a concept that ISCA has coined and developed.

ISCA AS COMMUNICATIONS PARTNER HSSF partnered with ISCA to lead the communications campaign for European School Sport Day® (ESSD) again in 2021. ISCA produced a range of materials, including an updated ESSD and Communications Handbook, promotional videos, an infographic based on HSSF’s research on children’s sedentary behaviour in 2020, social media visuals and designs for physical materials such as banners and beach flags. The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) came on board again as a media partner and collected donations from its members Adidas, Puma, Buff, Trangoworld and Emerid System.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2021 Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. essd.eu

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Moving Schools Alliance: A network, resource and inspiration hub ISCA is the Secretariat of the Moving Schools Alliance, a network of organisations dedicated to promoting physical activity and sport in schools established by the European School Sport Day (ESSD) founders. The new Moving Schools Alliance website features open initiatives, resources and inspiration, including the Moving Schools Award, Healthy and Physically Active Schools (HEPAS) training tools, MOVE Transfer Active Schools Group and ESSD. ISCA Vice President Helen Vost is the current Chairperson of the Alliance. movingschoolsalliance.isca.org

Our philosophy remains simple: to establish the opportunity for all children to participate in sports beyond school PE, and to promote physical activity as a part of their daily routine.

GÁBOR BALOGH

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PHOTO BY Marie Oleinik

EUROPEAN WEEK OF SPORT DENMARK Half a million participants and 8000 events More than half a million people took part in almost 8000 events held in connection with the European Week of Sport in Denmark in 2021. ISCA, as the National Coordinating Body for Denmark, continued its flourishing partnerships with DGI, the Danish Federation for Company Sport, Danish School Sport Federation, Danish Ramblers’ Association, Ollerup Academy for Physical Education, Girl Power, Team Fred and others.

We also joined forces with the Danish Together in Motion (‘Sammen i bevægelse’) campaign and Denmark’s Exercise Week (‘Danmarks Motionsuge’), which took place from 10-17 October.

Federation, Danish School Sports, DIF, DGI and ISCA. Sport organisations, institutions, schools, workplaces and other local associations offered plenty of free MOVEment opportunities around Denmark, such as:

DANMARKS MOTIONSUGE 4500 activities happened in the context of Danmarks Motionsuge, created in a collaboration between the national broadcaster DR, the Danish Company Sports

One of the European Week of Sport highlights was the #BeActive Night, when 7000 participants joined Friday Night Skate events in Aalborg and Copenhagen and Culture Night in Motion (‘Kulturnatten i bevægelse’) at DR Byen.

P ♀ adel Tennis 🏿 Archery 🏿 🏊 S ♀️ wimming 🚴 E 🏼 -cycling 🕺🏼 Dance 🏃🏻 ♂️Running 🧘🏽 ♂️ Yoga🚶🏿 Walking 💃🏻 Zumba S 🤫 ilent Fitness 🏋🏽 ♀️ Circle Training 🏸 Badminton 🐶 Dog Training B 🥊 oxing 🌳 Nature Training 🏞 ⚽️ Football Tennis 🎉 Beach Volleyball and much more!

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European Week of Sport Denmark 2021 in numbers 7,799 events 514,990 participants

SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES: EVERYBODY MOVE! Danish School Sport Day (‘Skolernes motionsdag’) remains one of the most popular physical activity events in the country , with almost 1000 schools and over 300,000 students taking part. A traditional element of the School Sport Day is the warm-up dance video created by Dansk Skoleidræt, which in 2021 was made to the tune of the Junior Senior song Move Your Feet.

Danish Workplace Activity Day (‘Arbejdspladsernes motionsdag’) encouraged workers to #BeActive during business hours, with over 20,000 employees taking part in activities at their workplaces and another 20,000 joining the ‘Tæl Skridt’ – Count the Steps – challenge motivating participants to walk at least 10,000 steps every day.

PHOTO BY Marie Oleinik

WALKERS AND RUNNERS FIND THEIR MILE We Walk (a DGI and Danish Athletics Federation initiative) continued with almost 700 walks in 2021, some of them with a specific goal: to clean up around local beaches. We Walk became also part of the European Mile, resulting in 24,410 miles collected during ISCA’s campaign. The Danish Ramblers Association also organised a series of #BeActive walks, uniting hikers and nature lovers in Denmark, and joined the European Ramblers Association’s ‘E-paths’ initiative.

‘Strandvejen’ event, organised by Gentofte Running Club and DGI Greater Copenhagen in support of the European Mile, invited families and physical activity enthusiasts alike to #BeActive and participate in a 5K or a one-mile race and kickstarted with an energising dance led by the ISCA team.

6000 people of all ages – among whom 500 participants were either under 18 or over 60 years old! – participated in an intercity cycling race. The Aarhus-Odense-Copenhagen race is the longest recreational cycling race in Denmark with three available distances of 57, 193 and 378 kilometres.

Together with the distance covered during the race and in preparation for it, the participants cycled 25,220,000 kilometres – or more than 600 times around the world! #BEACTIVE AWARDS As in 2020, Denmark was again represented by two finalists in the annual #BeActive Awards, which support projects and individuals that are dedicated to promoting sport and physical activity across Europe. Nagin Ravand was a finalist in the Local Hero category and Dansk Boldspil Union (Danish Football Association) was shortlisted as the finalist in the Education category for their project ‘11 for Health’. europeanweekofsport.dk

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Projects led by our

MEMBERS AND PARTNERS NEW

GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE AND MOBILITY IN SPORT: EMPOWERING YOUTH SPORT PROFESSIONALS

V4V: ANALYSING AND MAKING VISIBLE THE SKILLS ACQUIRED THROUGH VOLUNTEERING IN SPORT IN EUROPE Volunteers are vital to the EU sport sector, but their numbers are declining.

The V4V project aims to analyse the sport volunteer workforce, improve recruitment and retention and create an innovative online tool that showcases their skills and competences to potential employers and education providers. A feature of the project will be the first ever European Sport Volunteering Skills Summit.

Coordinator: European Observatoire of Sport and Employment (EOSE), France • January 2021 December 2023 • Grant €399,010 • Website: projects.eose.org/project/v4v

SENTRY SPORT PROJECT Inspired by UISP’s SportAntenne experience, the SENTRY Sport Project aims to develop a common methodology for identifying, preventing and mitigating discriminatory phenomena in sport and beyond. The method will be based on the role grassroots sport can play in tackling discrimination and supporting victims of prejudice.

Coordinator: UISP, Italy • January 2021 - June 2023 • Grant €392,585 • Website: sentrysport.org

ACTIVE AGEING FESTIVAL

PLACEMAKING FOR ACTIVE RECREATION KIT

This new project, following ISCA’s MOVE Transfer approach, aims to find common ground between five EU and five Western Balkan countries that can help drive sport participation.

The 31 physical activity and sport experts involved in the mobilities and knowledge transfer will share good practices that can empower youth sport professionals in the Western Balkans and secure long-term cooperation between the partners.

Coordinator: Hungarian School Sport Federation • January 2021 - December 2022 • Grant €191,209 • Website: gem.move-transfer.com

Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit (PARK) seeks to conduct research on, establish and advocate for the “placemaking for physical activity” concept. The direct target group of the project is local and national authority representatives, grassroots sport and placemaking experts, and local community NGOs. The ultimate target group is European citizens, whose wellbeing will benefit from the PARK approach to urban spaces.

Coordinator: BG Be Active, Bulgaria • January 2021 - December 2022 • Grant €312,900 • Website: park.bgbeactive.org/

PHOTO BY Ursa Cuk

This Small Collaborative Partnership developed an event manual for an Active Ageing Festival based on the results of pilot events in Slovenia and Romania. The festival and its connected Photo: Ursa Cuk social media campaign encourage participation in health enhancing physical activity with special focus on older populations and strengthening cooperation between sport organisations, senior organisations and health stakeholders.

Coordinator: Sports Union of Slovenia • January 2020 - December 2021 / Grant €56,290 • Twitter: @activeageingfes

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SCULT POINT: EASY ACCESS TO SPORTS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY SCULT Point aims to increase access to social and guided outdoor exercise, and to make sports coaching and mentoring (volunteering) independent from particular sports clubs or locations. This will be done through a creative matchmaking solution, SCULT Points, which are virtual bulletin boards related to specific geographic locations where people would like to start training outdoors.

Coordinator: SCULT International Sport Volunteers Movement, Estonia • January 2021 - December 2023 • Grant €399,335 • Website: scult.org/en/about/scultpoint

CHANGE PROJECT The CHANGE project has, for the first time at the EU level, defined the skills and competences of professionals working in sport for development.

The project developed an online a training programme for sport for development coordinators and activators following the 7-Step model, which was previously used to create training courses for community sport administrators, referees and club staff.

Coordinator: EOSE, France • January 2019 December 2021 • Grant €383,779 • Website: change-sport.eu

TOWARDS AN EU SPORT DIPLOMACY

NEXT NEIGHBOURHOOD SPORT – GET HEALTHY, GET CLOSER The NEXT project aims to tackle sedentary habits among people by bringing movement to the places where less active people live, rather than trying to promote places where they should go to be active. The project is testing pilot approaches in residential areas of selected European cities, including public gardens, streets and squares.

Continuous Implementation of the Sports Club for Health Guidelines This project is rolling out the Sports Club for Health (SCforH) movement by training the EU Physical Activity Focal Points to become SCforH contact points in their countries, and by encouraging tertiary course coordinators to include the project’s online learning tool in their curricula for health promoters, physical educators, and sport and exercise practitioners. The project launched a 30-minute online course in 25 languages in 2021.

Coordinator: University of Zagreb Faculty of Kinesiology, Croatia • January 2020- December 2022 • Grant €398,845 • Website: scforh.info

HEPAS - HEALTHY AND PHYSICALLY ACTIVE SCHOOLS IN EUROPE

The HEPAS project created a free open educational resource for school staff and other school-related stakeholders to enhance schoolbased physical activity and healthy lifestyle programmes for children and adolescents. The project mapped theory and practice categorised under the following areas: physical activity, physical education, school sport and healthy lifestyle, in support of the Moving Schools Award.

Coordinator: University of Luxembourg • December 2019- November 2021 • Grant €221,976 • Website: movingschoolsaward.com/hepas

INTER-ACTIVE LIVING FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Coordinator: UISP, Italy • January 2020 December 2021 • Grant €351,291 • Website: www.movethehood.com

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The TES-D: Towards an EU Sport Diplomacy project aims to produce concrete recommendations that build a shared framework of EU sport diplomacy, to map organisations in Europe that are working on sport diplomacy and to facilitate networking, cooperation and exchange of good practices. The project’s first reports were published in 2021.

The Inter-Active Living for Mental Health project focused on creating advocacy tools for the promotion of physical activity in the context of mental health. This included developing recommendations for specific EU Guidelines on the utilisation of sport and physical activity for mental health and an Interactive European Platform for Physical Education practices on Mental Health.

Coordinator: European Network of Active Living for Mental Health, Belgium • January 2020 - June 2021 • Grant €398,675

Coordinator: IRIS Association, France • January 2021 - December 2022 • Grant €340,951 • Website: tes-diplomacy.org

A glimpse into 12 Erasmus+ projects ISCA is involved in diverse projects led by our members and partners, which from 2020-2023 range from placemaking to sports diplomacy, youth to active ageing, sport for development to mental health, club-based sport to community-organised physical activity. Here we feature the Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships and Key Actions in which ISCA is a partner.

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20 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS

EVS, ESC and ISCA

2021 marked the 25th anniversary of the European Voluntary Service (EVS) for youth, now called the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). Erasmus+ ESC and Traineeships/Internships give young people (aged 1830) an opportunity to take part in projects that benefit communities, live abroad, meet each other and gain work experience in a variety of organisations.

Scan the QR-code Find out what volunteering means to current and former ISCA volunteers

ISCA has been an EVS/ESC host organisation since 2001 and has hosted 75 volunteers and trainees from more than 20 countries.

This year we celebrated this long-term bond between ISCA and ESC by featuring a small challenge for the ISCA team members, most of whom have volunteering backgrounds. We asked our colleagues to share in a few words what volunteering means for them and posted their video responses on our social media channels (watch by scanning the QR code).

We also asked all volunteers who were part of the team in 2021 to share their thoughts on their experience at ISCA – you can read their quotes on the opposite page.

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Our volunteering experience at ISCA

ALMINA GERMANAVIČIŪTĖ | Lithuania

It is powerful to see the creative results you can achieve when diversity unites towards the same goal. I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work in such a multicultural, supportive and professional team, which has showed that using clear communication, being open-minded and dedicated leads to many successful achievements!

JANA MILOŠEVIĆ | Croatia

Volunteering at ISCA has given me the experience, both professional and personal, to develop myself in the best way.

ISCA is such a positive and motivational environment, creating a meaningful impact and changing the lives of people across the world through physical activity. What better opportunity can you find out there?

SHUBHAM MANE | India/Germany

ISCA has been an eye-opening experience – an environment that actually makes you comfortable by challenging yourself. Two months in and I already want to slow down time, for it has flown by, and cherish what an experience I’m making for myself at ISCA with the amazing people that I get to work with, the community impact projects that I have the chance to involve myself in and the personal and professional growth that I see within myself.

SABINA MAMMADZADA | Azerbaijan

I have great memories of my European Solidarity Corps volunteering experience.

I had the opportunity to work on several European projects, meet interesting people, discover Denmark and its culture, and gain a meaningful experience for my future career.

KRISTINA PEKACH | Belarus

I’m so glad to join the ISCA team for my seven-month internship because my life values match a lot of what ISCA does. It has given me a clearer understanding of how we can move people – literally. And, of course, first we need to keep ‘moving ourselves’ to be able to help others. Working here is such a unique experience that I can share with talented, ambitious, open people from different backgrounds.

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ISCA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2019-2021

President

MOGENS KIRKEBY

DGI, Denmark

Vice President, ISCA Latin America Chair

Vice President

MARIA LUIZA SOUZA DIAS

Fundació UBAE, Catalonia, Spain

Executive Committee Member

Serviço Social do Comércio (SESC), Brazil

Executive Committee Member

ARNAUD JEAN

CARLO BALESTRI

TONI LLOP

Executive Committee Member

ISCA Asia Chair

ISCA North America Chair

JAKUB KALINOWSKI

Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong, China

V4Sport, Poland

ISCA Africa Chair

Honorary Committee Member

Honorary Committee Member

RUGGERO ALCANTERINI

Federazione Italiana Sport per Tutti (FIST), Italy

MICHAEL TIEMANN

Deutscher Turner-bund (German Gymnastics Federation), Germany

UISP, Italy

Egyptian Sports Culture Association, Egypt

LILIANA ORTIZ DE LA CRUZ

Executive Committee Member

Fundacion pro Deporte y Recreation para todos, Colombia

Union Française des Oeuvres Laïques d’Education Physique (UFOLEP), France

ASHRAF MAHMOUD

Executive Committee Member

N. SHANMUGARAJAH

Southeast Asian Gymnastics Federation (SEAGCON), Malaysia

SIU YIN CHEUNG

DR. JAYNE GREENBERG

US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States

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ISCA STAFF

SASKA BENEDICIC TOMAT

LASKA NENOVA

RACHEL PAYNE

GEORGI STAYKOV

Secretary General

Head of Projects sbt@isca-web.org

Communications Manager

Head of Digital

js@isca-web.org

Head of Membership and Campaigns ln@isca-web.org

rpa@isca-web.org

JACOB SCHOUENBORG

gs@isca-web.org

MONIKA REŠETAR

LAURA-MARIA TIIDLA

ELENA GARCIA MORALES

IRINA COREACHINA

KRISTINE ONARHEIM

Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator

Financial Coordinator

Project Coordinator

mr@isca-web.org

lmt@isca-web.org

egm@isca-web.org

ic@isca-web.org

Visual Communications Specialist ko@isca-web.org

MARIA MALYSHKINA

HILAL ERKOCA

LIINA SEPP

Communications Officer

Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator

he@isca-web.org

ls@isca-web.org

PAULINA GODLEWSKA

Membership Administration and Communication

CORYNNE CERDAS Youth Officer cc@isca-web.org

pg@isca-web.org

mm@isca-web.org

JANA MILOSEVIC

ALMINA GERMANAVICIUTE

SABINA MAMMADZADA

SHUBHAM MANE

KRISTINA PEKACH

Youth Officer

Youth Officer

Youth Officer

Youth Officer

jm@isca-web.org

ag@isca-web.org

Youth Officer

ssm@isca-web.org

kp@isca-web.org

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KAI TROLL

ANDERS BECH THARSGAARD

TATIANA CAMARGO

Development Director

Senior Consultant

kt@isca-web.org

abt@isca-web.org

ISCA Latin America Secretariat tatianacamargo@sescsp.org.br

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FINANCES ISCA INCOME

2021 (€)

2020 (€)

2019 (€)

2018 (€)

General support and payments

467,350

459,888

471,983

460,920

Project related support

1,708,613

999,012

1,259,267

1,259,543

Others

6,672

15,865

7,248

10,392

Total

2,182,635

1,474,765

1,738,498

1,730,855

Project and activities

1,903,419

1,148,219

1,431,928

1,451,333

Organisational development

9,960

1,079

17,072

15,553

Secretariat

247,941

265,625

198,672

218,751

Others (Depreciation, etc)

0

0

0

0

Total

2,161,320

1,414,923

1,647,672

1,685,637

RESULT

21,315

59,842

90,826

45,218

ISCA EXPENDITURES

13.2% 12.0% 30.3%

Erasmus + Sport projects (EU) (1,125,105 €) Erasmus + Sport partners’ projects (EU) (375,440 €) 11.3%

DGI (181,208 €) European Week of Sport (EWOS) (171,534€) Bilateral membership agreements (134,228 €) Ministry of Culture Denmark (124,128 €) Other projects (NovoNordisk, Nordplus, CISU) (120,313 €)

8.9%

European Solidarity Corps (EU) (57,812€) MOVE Congress (29,944 €) Membership fees (27,787 €) Other income (6,672 €)

1.0%

2021 total income (estimated) € 2,182,635

1.3% 1.8%

8.8% 3.3%

8.2%

ISCA ANNUAL REPORT

ISCA IS ITS MEMBERS, ITS MEMBERS ARE ISCA Why become part of ISCA’s community of Members, MOVE Agents and Movers?

• Have a stronger voice locally, nationally and internationally through affiliation with ISCA’s international political statements and advocacy for grassroots sport • Have the opportunity to participate in various ISCA-led projects • Have the opportunity to receive specialised and personalised consultations from ISCA’s expert staff • Access sector-oriented online learning courses that provide practical advice and answer key questions based on real-life experiences • Participate in webinars and events on trending topics with thought leaders and experts

• Have the opportunity to present and learn from innovative projects and ideas during the MOVE Congress • Learn from best practice examples in campaign and event management, social inclusion, sport for development, inspirational examples of other sport programmes, advocacy, diplomacy, education through sport • Gain access to ISCA’s extensive network of members and partners, “The Moving People Community”, where ideas, know-how and knowledge are shared on a peer-to-peer basis.

Jump to the back cover of this report to find the membership level that suits you. Find more information at isca.org

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BECOME A MEMBER MOVER

MOVE AGENT

FULL MEMBER

PREMIUM MEMBER

FREE

€ 6 MONTH / € 49 YEAR

€ 250/ € 500 YEAR*

€ 1500 YEAR

ENGAGED

CUSTOMISED

INVOLVED INFORMED

Movers get regular access to information about new trends and opportunities and expert know-how from ISCA’s network.

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MOVE Agents have the chance to be involved in ISCA’s most successful initiative, NowWeMOVE, get a MOVE Agent Badge and access to ISCA’s learning and development accelerator.

ISCA members are involved in funded projects, networks, advocacy and cooperation. Members receive a Members’ Badge and the right to be appointed as NowWeMOVE coordinators. *500 euro/year for group 1 – High-Income countries. *250 euro/year for group 2 – upper-middle; lowermiddle and low income countries.

The Premium Member package offers all the benefits of the first three tiers, plus access to customised support, opportunities to scale up initiatives through ISCA’s MOVE Transfer programme, expert know-how and mentoring from our broader network.

* UN GNI index categorisation

Become an ISCA member to be part of “The Moving People Community”, an extensive network of physical activity professionals and a dynamic hub where ideas, know-how and opportunities meet. ISCA membership is available to any individual or non-profit organisation working in grassroots sport and recreation, sport for all and physical activity promotion.

Choose the right tier for you according to the goals and capacity of your organisation.

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ISCA’s membership offer is currently evolving and you can see more details and options at isca.org