ISCA Annual Report 2022 by International Sport and Culture Association

ISCA ANNUAL REPORT

ANNUAL REPORT

2022

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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

Created in 1995, ISCA cooperates with its 74 Full and Premium Members, active community of 3669 Movers, MOVE Agents, newsletter subscribers and online learning users, international NGOs, public and private stakeholders.

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CONTENTS 04 President’s Introduction

28 Campaigns

05 ISCA in Numbers

30 MOVE Week Latin America

06 Impact, Engagement and Reach in 2022

31 MOVE Week

08 ISCA.org, ISCA Health and Online Learning

32 MOVEment Pills

10 Advocacy

34 No Elevators Day

12 HealthyLifestyle4All

36 European School Sport Day

14 Thematic Projects

38 European Week of Sport Denmark

16 Integration of Refugees Through Sport

40 Members' and Partners' Projects

18 Sport for Ukraine

42 ISCA’s European Volunteers

20 MOVE for Fun

44 ISCA Executive Commitee

21 Future MOVE

45 ISCA Staff

22 New Projects in 2022

46 Finances

24 MOVING People - MOVING Europe

47 ISCA Membership

26 MOVE Congress Latin America

48 Become a Member

ISCA Annual Report 2022 COPYRIGHT International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) LAYOUT ISCA Secretariat / Kristine Onarheim

EDITOR Rachel Payne, ISCA

PUBLISHER CATEGORY

DATE AND PLACE

COVER IMAGE ISCA Project Coordinator Hilal Erkoca Mølgaard takes an active break in the ISCA office (Photo: Kristine Onarheim).

29 March 2023, 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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MOVING PEOPLE

CAN CHANGE THE WORLD It is often said that sport can change the world. I think it is more precise and correct to say that ‘the people of sport can change the world’ – AND if we do it right, we can enjoy healthier and happier lives in a better, peaceful and more sustainable world. It is ambitious, but I believe it should be our common goal. There are no short-cuts or quick fixes. It is about being persistent together and taking it step-by-step. Finding ways to obtain a healthy lifestyle for all was a central topic of our initiatives and events throughout 2022. In 2022 we connected our members and partners, both online and in-person, who are MOVING People in different countries and continents and thrive on the inspiration and practical ideas they share when they meet.

MEETING OF MOVING PEOPLE In September we could gather 820 people (300 in-person and 520 watching online) from 23 countries to the first edition of the MOVE Congress Latin America (Congresso MOVE América Latina 2022). With a kick-off event in São Paulo and a three-day conference in Rio de Janeiro, the MOVE Congress Latin America: Sport 4.0 was kindly hosted by SESC Rio de Janeiro and SESC São Paulo. In November we invited 180 members and partners from 125 different associations to join the MOVING People MOVING Europe conference in Brussels. The main theme was how we, as a sector, as organisations and as people, can help create positive, healthy environments in which more

President’s introduction MOGENS KIRKEBY | ISCA President

people can be active and enjoy better wellbeing as a result – by participating in ‘Healthy Clubs’, finding dynamic public spaces around them, being included regardless of their cultural backgrounds, and being more attentive to health and wellbeing in their work.

PEACE Unfortunately, in 2022 we also experienced another human conflict with huge human consequences and costs. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the following war has led to destruction and claimed lives, and many have had to flee their homes. In 2022 the number of refugees and displaced people escalated to 100 million globally. Refugees from any conflict are in a vulnerable situation and have a need for assistance in the countries to which they flee. Sport organisations assist with practical solutions to make life a bit better for refugees and their tools for including refugees in their communities are recreational sport and physical activity. The Integration of Refugees through Sport Networking Platform consists of more than 100 organisations who have demonstrated a strong engagement and fast mobilisation to assist refugees from Ukraine. The collective and individual actions of these MOVING People have changed the lives of their fellow citizens in a crisis situation. Thank you for your commitment.

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in numbers

3669 107 ISCA HAS AN ACTIVE COMMUNITY OF

MOVE AGENTS, MOVERS AND ISCA USERS

FROM

EU GRANTS

towards one goal:

YEARS OF THE NOWWEMOVE CAMPAIGN

MILLION PEOPLE

ONLINE LEARNING COURSES

9,782 WORKING MORE THAN

FROM

STAFF MEMBERS

FULL AND PREMIUM MEMBERS

REPRESENTING

DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

MOVE CONGRESSES

74 20

BASED ON A DEMOCRACTIC BACKBONE OF

COUNTRIES

DAYS

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#MOVINGPEOPLE 24,000+

3,944,834+

Led by MOVE Agents on 5 continents

In NowWeMOVE and #BeActive DK events

• 159 No Elevators Day • 919 MOVE Week (May) • 4479 MOVE Week Latin America (September) • 5000 European Week of Sport Denmark • 13,631 European School Sport Day

• 607,648 MOVE Week Latin America (September) • 600,000 European Week of Sport Denmark • 2,574,681 European School Sport Day • 162,505 MOVE Week (May)

community events

participants

1000+

international conference participants MOVE Congress Latin America • 300 in-person • 520 online

MOVING People – MOVING Europe • 180 in-person

143

In-person/Online

Combined number of countries involved in NowWeMOVE and European Week of Sport Denmark events

project meetings • 99 online project meetings • 44 in-person project meetings

countries

• 5 continents

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59,761

social media followers

773,531

ISCA social media profiles • 7612 Facebook @ISCApage • 4179 Twitter @ISCA_Tweet • 3474 LinkedIn @international-sport-and-culture-association • 1133 Instagram @isca.official • 40,712 Facebook @NowWeMove • 1599 Twitter @NowWeMove • 1052 Instagram @nowwemove_

social media impressions

And more communication numbers from 2022 • 43 ISCA-run websites • 131 articles on ISCA websites • 146,338 webpage views • 483 social media posts • 300 Instagram stories

• 125 videos on YouTube and other channels • 14 newsletters • 8 podcasts on Podbean • 6 webinars

signatures From organisations in support of our Call for European Action for a HealthyLifestyle4All

IMPACT, ENGAGEMENT AND REACH IN 2022

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ON THE WEB…

ISCA.org, ISCA Health and Online Learning If you visited our homepage in 2022 you might have noticed that it has had a makeover! We are so excited to introduce to you the new-look isca.org. Find out more about us, our history, our areas of work, all the latest news from our projects, events and advocacy efforts. You can also sign up as an ISCA member or newsletter subscriber to benefit from our network and the latest opportunities in our sector. We’ll be adding more features to the website in 2023, so stay tuned! isca.org

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ISCA Health One of the brand new features of isca.org is our ISCA Health section, where we showcase all of the resources we created with support from an EU Operational Grant in the field of Health in 2022 and introduce you to a group of health experts who contributed to our webinars, in-person seminars and conferences and ISCA HEPA & HealthyLifestyle4All online course. isca.org/health

ISCA Online Learning Our selection of online courses for recreational sport and physical activity promoters continues to grow, and we added three new courses in 2022: the ISCA HEPA & HealthyLifestyle4All course, Integration of Refugees Through Sport: Learning from Experts and Good Examples and the Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit (PARK) course. learn.isca.org

Towards an EU Sport Diplomacy Training Tool We also created an online training tool for the Towards an EU Sport Diplomacy project, where the partners build on ISCA’s Grassroots Sport Diplomacy learning course by mapping different levels of sport diplomacy being carried out by all EU 27 countries. This learning tool is the first of its kind and ISCA is proud to be one of the frontrunners defining aspects of sport diplomacy from the community level to the international level. tes-diplomacy.org

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MOVING our sector forward Being a successful advocate for the value of physical activity is an increasing challenge when economic, national security, environmental and health crises hit the news headlines every day. The pressure this puts on policy-makers is impossible to ignore. So as advocates we have to keep moving with the times and be relevant to the current political agendas. At ISCA, we know that an inactive population is an unhealthy one – and that physical inactivity is a ticking time bomb that costs billions. So we keep moving forward to ensure physical activity stays on the political agenda and in 2022 we did this by establishing ISCA Health.

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ISCA HEALTH – OUR BIGGEST AGENDA IN 2022?

ISCA members have done amazing health promotion work over the last 15 years, gaining experience and building the evidence base for our cost-effective solutions. In 2022, we managed to support and expand on that work through our collective international efforts, ensuring more of our members engage and that the value of physical activity is recognised among stakeholders, health professionals and political decisionmakers alike. And more is to come! JACOB SCHOUENBORG | ISCA Secretary General

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Every grassroots sport advocate knows it: sport and physical activity are good for mental and physical health. But if we are honest about it, not too many public health professionals, nor many politicians believe us and are willing to shift their priorities and investments. In 2022, ISCA set out to change this with the biggest healthfocused effort in our history.

EUROPEAN ACTION FOR A HEALTHYLIFESTYLE4ALL Covid-19 had meant a literal standstill in many communities and for many individuals. Movement was restricted, worsening already too low levels of physical activity. At the European Parliament, no physical events

were allowed due to Covid-19 until well into 2022. But when the parliament finally re-opened, ISCA was ready! We organised one of the first major events there on 27 June together with JOGG/Youth Health Communities and Schuttelaar & Partners. And we prepared a Call for European Action jointly with 13 other organisations, including the UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education, European Association for the Study of Obesity, European Cyclists’ Federation, UNICEF (NL) and many more. The call to action was focused on achieving a #HealthyLifestyle4All in recognition of the fact that ISCA cannot attract cross-sector attention if we only talk about grassroots sport. After the event, we invited other stakeholders to co-sign the call to action – and an amazing 70 organisations and entities did! With this success, we could confidently share the call and list of signatories with more than 20 MEPs, with health officials from the Commission and with the Committee of the Regions. We crowned these efforts with a personal meeting with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, who acknowledged our initiative and the overall interest in this agenda. We also supported WHO Europe in their efforts to promote Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) through policy dialogues at the HEPA Europe conference, and in the HEPA Europe working groups.

FIRST SPORT ORGANISATION TO RECEIVE AN EU HEALTH OPERATING GRANT Most importantly, we engaged our members in our health agenda-setting with a HEPA masterclass in Brussels, a HEPA online course for our network, and we provided advice and guidance through our brand new HEPA Expert Group, as well as through massive amounts of resources on our new website isca.org/health. And of course we wanted to extend the health focus to our NowWeMOVE campaign. So we delivered toolkits on physical activity and mental wellbeing at the workplace for No Elevators Day, the history of MOVEment Pills and exercise on prescription for MOVE Week, and promoting healthy lifestyle messages to children for European School Sport Day. Our efforts in 2022 were supported by an operating grant in the field of health from the European Commission; it is the first time ever that a sport organisation has achieved this, and it is a testament to the growing value attributed to grassroots sport by health professionals. We will build on the success of our health advocacy actions in 2023, including through a renewed focus on mental health through physical activity, with a starting point in the new Icehearts Europe project, which focuses on supporting socially disadvantaged children and youth (see p. 22-23). isca.org/health

HEPA by ISCA • Operating grant period: March-December 2022 • Funded by: European Health and Digital Executive Agency • Grant amount: €395,180

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Tackling societal issues from the bottom up We receive support from the EU, Nordplus Adult, Novo Nordisk and CISU/Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver thematic projects that help civil society organisations tackle societal issues such as refugee inclusion, sustainability and the environment, noncommunicable disease prevention and general wellbeing. In 2022, our Integration of Refugees Through Sport project allowed us to respond quickly to the need among local organisations to help Ukrainian families through inclusive school sport and play. Our future projects will focus even more on children’s mental health, as we continue to partner with experts in our own and our partners’ projects on a wide range of cutting edge topics in our sector.

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INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES THROUGH SPORT Showcasing the initiatives and leaders who put inclusion first The Integration of Refugees Through Sport (IRTS) Networking Platform held its closing conference over two days as part of the Moving People – Moving Europe main conference programme on 23 November and parallel seminars on 24 November at Maison de la Poste in Brussels, but the event was by no means the close of the network or the end of the initiatives that are part of it. Rather, it handed the stage over to 14 project leaders to showcase their work and what they have learned in the process. Guest speakers including MOVE Congress 2021 keynote Khalida Popal and moderator Nick Sore from UNHCR, Floor Lochten and Elin Hofman from TeamUp in the Netherlands, Jacob Kalinowski from V4Sport in Poland, Mihai Androhovici, from Sport for All Suceava in Romania, and Daniela Conti from UISP took to the main stage as part of the conference and workshop. They were joined by Katerina Salta from the International Olympic Truce Centre in Greece, who shared her impressive journey from mentee to mentor through ISCA’s IRTS Mentoring Programme. AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM On the second day in Brussels, eight EU-supported projects accepted our invitation to present their results to other members of the IRTS Networking Platform and the EU Sport Unit. At the same time, the IRTS Mentoring Programme wrapped up its second round of mentor-mentee pairs, who completed their professional development experience as part of the IRTS Networking Platform project.

Key facts • Project title: IRTS Networking Platform • Project period: January 2020-December 2022 • Co-funded by: EAC Sport as a Tool for Integration • Grant amount: €600,000 • Project title: IRTS Online Course • Project period: May 2021-April 2022 • Co-funded by: Nordplus Adult • Grant amount: €38,065

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Marcello Corrado from the EU Sport Unit recapped how far the EU’s support for refugee inclusion through sport projects had come since its first call for smaller proposals in 2016, a year after Europe’s refugee arrival crisis. The IRTS Networking Platform, for example, received a larger threeyear project grant as part of the EAC Sport as a Tool for Integration funding scheme in 2020. The sustainability of funding for projects and exchanges in this field will rely both on the results of these early initiatives and how visible they are to funders like the European Commission, as he noted in his opening speech. “Organisations are achieving good results at the local level. That’s why this platform is important – to find out more about the smaller projects. Very good work is being done by smaller organisations to support inclusion.” STRONGER TOGETHER Wim Poelmans, the manager of the Belgian athletics programme for refugees, Run Free, which won an IRTS Networking Platform Award in 2021, said in the closing seminar that motivating organisations to go the extra mile to help refugees is often about discovering “how to find pleasure in seeking imaginative solutions to different

problems.” It’s also about “think[ing] in terms of ‘us’ – work together, collaborate, team up.” This is what the IRTS project has strived to do, by producing online courses, hosting webinars and podcasts, and bringing people together physically at conferences and meetings around Europe. We hope this will help people working in similar fields – often in different sectors – to share inspiration, connect, work together and become stronger together. In 2022, we launched a new course on learn.isca.org called Learning from Experts and Good Examples, supported by the European Commission and Nordplus Adult, and we partnered in a new project called We Play Together, led by SPIN in Estonia. ISCA will continue sharing good practices on our IRTS Networking Platform and Sport for Ukraine websites, especially as we continue working in this space with an IRTS Nordic programme and Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Children Through Sport (IRTS Ukraine), a project led by V4Sport in Poland, in 2023 (see following page). irts.isca.org

As a community, as an ecosystem, we want to find out how to engage the sport sector more broadly, and to enhance organisations’ abilities to react to more situations. NICK SORE | UNHCR

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SPORT FOR UKRAINE New website, projects and awards

At the Moving People – Moving Europe conference in Brussels, ISCA Executive Committee Member Jacob Kalinowski from the V4Sport Foundation in Poland gave a powerful first-hand account of his work in Ukraine and Poland in 2022, which involved travelling to war-torn Ukraine and helping families directly as well as supporting families who fled to Poland. From the start of the war in February, he dedicated his year to offering aid, assistance and the development of physical activity resources and initiatives to accommodate teachers and refugee children in Polish schools. His experience interacting with entire families (both refugees and those trying to stay) underlined how important it is to pay attention to nurturing children and adults when they are experiencing displacement, crisis and trauma.

Visit the Sport for Ukraine platform Sport for Ukraine is a web platform showcasing organisations, resources and specific initiatives that are supporting Ukrainian refugees through sport and play. Use the platform to learn, find partners and get inspiration for your own initiatives! sportforukraine.org

“[Nurturing] mental health is not only about the kids; it’s also the parents,” he said. “The challenges are overwhelming and there is not one single kid or adult that does not have trauma from this situation.”

SPORT FOR UKRAINE WEBSITE ISCA established the Sport for Ukraine website as a platform to highlight initiatives such as V4Sport’s. Together with the IRTS Network, including UNHCR, we responded quickly to set up the online hub to host useful resources and facilitate a network of grassroots sport organisations who want to help Ukrainian refugees directly. We will continue to add resources to the website in 2023. AWARDS FOR ISCA MEMBERS Kalinowski and V4Sport’s work in 2022 was also recognised with a #BeActive Education Award, which capped off a tough but impactful year and a successful collaboration with the award recipient, the Krokiet and Lama Academy. Two other ISCA members, UISP in Italy and Sport for All Suceava in Romania, also received accolades for their teamwork in receiving and supporting Ukrainian refugees in the north-east of Romania. ISCA Executive Committee

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I’m thankful to ISCA for being there right from the start of the war, asking what they can do to help. JAKUB KALINOWSKI | V4Sport President, Poland

member Daniela Conti, from UISP, travelled to Suceava to help Mihai Androhovici with the coordination and delivery of aid and sports activities. A documentary filmed about their collaboration received a Matera Sport Film Festival Award in November.

NEW PROJECTS IN 2023 ISCA is also leading one and partnering in two new projects focusing on relief for Ukrainian families through sport. We travelled to Tallinn in October to kick off the We Play Together! project led by Estonian organisation MTÜ SPIN, which aims to enable Baltic grassroots sport organisations to support the social inclusion of displaced children and youth due to the war in Ukraine. In November we started the IRTS Ukraine Nordic project, which will pilot new initiatives and engage more organisations across the Nordic countries in helping to facilitate Ukrainian children’s education and integration through sport. V4Sport also made a successful application for project funding under the Erasmus+ Sport programme with the Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Children Through Sport (IRTS Ukraine) project, which starts in 2023. You can find more information on these projects in the ‘Key facts’ box.

Key facts Project title: IRTS Ukraine Nordic • Project period: November 2022-April 2024 • Co-funded by: Nordic Co-operation • Grant amount: €170,000 • Project lead: ISCA • Partners: Monaliiku (Finland), Viken Idrettskrets (Norway), Dansk Skoleidræt (Denmark), UMFI (Iceland) Project title: Integration of Ukrainian Refugee Children Through Sport • Project period: January 2023-December 2024 • Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnerships • Grant amount: €400,000 • Project lead: V4Sport Foundation, Poland • Partners: ISCA, Suceava Sport for All (Romania), Terre des Hommes (Romania), University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy), Laureus Sport for Good Project title: We Play Together! • Project period: September 2022-June 2024 • Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in the Field of Youth • Grant amount: €250,000 • Project lead: MTÜ SPIN, Estonia • Partners: ISCA, Latvian Sports Federation Council, The Kazickas Family Foundation (Lithuania), V4Sport Foundation (Poland)

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Key facts • 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

FUTURE MOVE Sport for all can help to achieve 4 SDGs Future MOVE is a sustainability-focused project supported by the Danish Civil Society in Development Fund (CISU) to develop a Danish conceptual framework and curriculum for Sport for Development projects. The project is mapping 30 projects across the world that use sport for all to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and empowering 540 Gerlev Sports Academy students to engage directly with at least one of them during and beyond their 4-month stay at the academy. The students are ‘learning by doing’, being encouraged to take initiative to establish purposeful and direct interaction with the 30 mapped Sport for Development projects as well as with Danish NGOs that own or are engaged with these projects. They will be empowered to continue the engagement as ‘endorsers’, ‘contributors’, ‘owners’ and ‘leaders’ after the project. The Future MOVE project also incorporates climate- and environment-specific questions into the students’ learning activities to consider the impact of sport for all on the environment, plus discussions on broader inclusion of diverse groups of young people through sport.

There is consensus that sport for all in particular can make significant contributions to the following SDGs: 3: Good health and well-being by contributing to non-communicable disease prevention and providing positive social interaction that can improve mental health 4: Quality education by advancing nonformal education opportunities, life skill development and physical literacy 5: Gender equality by promoting equal participation in leisure time physical activities and sport 11: Sustainable cities and communities by enhancing social justice and equal access to sport and recreation

sustainability.isca.org/future-move

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MOVE FOR FUN

Bringing the joy of movement to Argentina, Poland and the UK All children have the right to play! And with Move For Fun, ISCA members V4Sport (Poland), Valores y Deporte (Argentina) and Youth Sport Trust (UK) have been delivering on that promise with fun and social pilot activities for more than 3000 children in disadvantaged areas. In 2022, the pilot activities gained momentum (after the obvious Covid-19 challenges) with activities that were tailored to the children’s needs and brought smiles to their faces. The approach builds on ISCA member DGI’s successful Jump4Fun programme, getting children with health, social and overweight challenges into movement in the local communities. Together with DGI and the health care company Novo Nordisk, we developed the methodological framework and worked with the piloting organisations to adapt the programme to their unique contexts. The Move For Fun concept draws on insights from physical literacy. DGI has also developed its understanding of children’s motivation from that concept with the principles GO Fun – GO Together – GO Fit – GO Pro.

TRANSFERRING WHAT WORKS – IN NEW PARTNERSHIPS Move For Fun is a great example of how ISCA works with partners to transfer learnings across borders. Building on what works in other countries, we help organisations develop and adapt models to their own contexts. This is what we call MOVE Transfer. And we also want to bring together different experts and partners to deliver the best impact. Move For Fun has been conceived and supported by a unique consortium of a health care company, a national sport promoter and ISCA as an international umbrella, and delivered on a local level via ISCA members. Partnerships that work! dgi.dk/moveforfun

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NEW ISCA-LED PROJECTS Starting in 2023

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The Erasmus+ Sport 2022 and EU4Health calls for proposals resulted in four new project grants, including the largest grant ever awarded to an ISCA-led project consortium (Icehearts Europe).

ICEHEARTS EUROPE

• Project period: January 2023-December 2024 • Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnerships • Grant amount: €400,000 Full partners: ISCA, PRN SI - National Sport Innovations Resource Center of the French Ministry of Sport (France), DGI Impact (Denmark), European Platform on Sport Innovation (EPSI) (Belgium), University College of Cork (Ireland) and Institute for Sport and Youth (IDPJ) (Portugal). Associated partners: Grand Paris Sport Cluster (France) and UNICAS (Italy).

EUROPEAN GRASSROOTS ESPORTS This project will enable local sport clubs and schools to reach out to young esports practitioners and gamers and include them in value-driven communities that provide them a chance to meet, play and learn how to lead balanced and physically active lifestyles. The project also has an important mission to not leave the young gamers behind, and to not let the stereotypes of gaming and esports stand in the way of including these young people in wider societal activities. The Icehearts Europe project is uniquely positioned to address the intersections of physical activity, mental and physical health by adapting the successful Icehearts Finland approach to supporting vulnerable children through a dedicated sports programme to more countries. ISCA is leading a large consortium of 10 full partners and 14 associated partners to build an Icehearts model that will be pilot tested in Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Slovenia and Spain before being promoted internationally to engage more organisations in delivering the programme.

• Project period: January 2023-December 2024 • Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnerships • Grant amount: €400,000 Project partners: ISCA, H2O esport campus (the Netherlands), Viken Sport Region (Norway), Hungarian Esport Federation (Hungary), DGI (Denmark) and play-eS-HanseSPIEL e. V (Germany).

GENERATIONS UNITING THROUGH MOVEMENT

• Project period: January 2023-December 2025 • Co-funded by: EU4H-2022 Programme • Grant amount: €4,000,000 Full project partners: ISCA, Icehearts (Finland), EuroHealthNet (Belgium), Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) (Finland), University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (UNICAS) (Italy), University College of Cork (Ireland), the Italian Institute of Public Health (ISS) (Italy), DGI (Denmark), SPIN (Estonia), Fútbol Más Espana (Spain), UISP (Italy) and Sports Union of Slovenia. Associated partners: UFOLEP (France), V4Sport (Poland), BG Be Active (Bulgaria), Viken Idrettskrets (Norway), JOGG (the Netherlands), Deutscher Turner-Bund/Deutscher Turner-Jugend (Germany), SOKOL (Czech Republic), Health Life Academy (Croatia), UMFI (Iceland), Latvian Sports Federation Council (Latvia), NEMUNAS (Lithuania), MOVE Malta, Institute for Sport and Youth (IDPJ) (Portugal) and Association Sport for all Suceava (Romania).

#DIGIFIT: FIT FOR THE DIGITAL AGE Fit for the Digital Age will look into how digital transformation and innovation could be harnessed to build resilience and capacity in the grassroots sport and physical activity sector to make it #DigiFit. The main objective of the project is to accelerate digital transformation of the grassroots sport organisations and involved staff through development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity building. The project aims more specifically to breed a culture of innovation in the field of grassroots sport through the selected piloting organisations.

The Generations Uniting Through Movement (GUM) project aims to use traditional games and sports as one way of promoting inter-generational relations and increased physical activity. The concept of the GUM programme is to identify, recruit, train and support a cohort of experienced practitioners who will facilitate local-scale collaboration projects between young people and older people to increase their participation in physical activity and sport. • Project period: January 2023-December 2024 • Co-funded by: Erasmus+ Sport Cooperation Partnerships • Grant amount: €400,000 Project partners: ISCA, Youth Sport Trust (UK), Sports Union of Slovenia, BG Be Active (Bulgaria), Deporte Para La Educacion Y La Salud (DES) (Spain), Stichting Hanzehogeschool Groningen (Hanze) (the Netherlands) and Azur Sport Sante (France).

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MOVING PEOPLE – MOVING EUROPE #HealthyLifestyle4All ambassadors meet

ISCA’s third Moving People – Moving Europe conference gathered 180 of ISCA’s project partners, members and Executive Committee in Brussels on 23 November for an invitation-only event combining EU project closing events and connecting #HealthyLifestyle4All ambassadors from our network. Many of the participants – travelling from 40 different countries – reunited at the Tour & Taxis Maison de la Poste venue, which hosted the MOVE Congress 2021. We recap the themes and projects featured at the conference.

Engaging “all” in healthy lifestyle promotion Stefano Pintus from the EU Sport Unit, as part of our #HealthyLifestyle4All panel, noted that enabling Europeans to live a healthier lifestyle relies on taking the next step from research and policy to collective action: “We have a huge amount of literature that says sport and physical activity have an impact on the body and the mind. [But] if you want to achieve a HealthyLifestyle4All, it has to come from stakeholders all around Europe.”

Making your MOVE to Wellbeing The workshop that followed the plenary session handed over the discussion on healthy lifestyle promotion to the audience, facilitated by Carole Ponchon, with the aim of creating a new concept and model called ISCA’s MOVE to Wellbeing. We invite you to visit our new ISCA Health homepage to discover more about the concept and complete our course on health-enhancing physical activity.

World Café puts experts in the hot seat The Integration of Refugees Through Sport (IRTS) Networking Platform workshop gave the audience a chance to ask the experts their questions in smaller, more intimate groups in a World Café format – and a chance to establish contacts with potential new partners to ensure the network will continue to grow beyond the frame of the EU-supported IRTS Networking Platform project.

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Get a taste of the event We captured some of the highlights of the Moving People – Moving Europe conference in this wrapup video. You can also read more about the sessions on isca.org. We can’t wait to invite you to our next conference – the MOVE Congress 2023!

“Placemaking” public spaces more active

Club sport can also drive health promotion

The Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit (PARK) closing seminar presented the project’s colourful guides that illustrate the concept and highlighted best practices from BG Be Active in Bulgaria and MOVE Malta. Anna Bradley from Placemaking Europe noted why the concept is so suited to active space design: “Placemaking helps people form an attachment to a place and a sense of belonging to that place, making it more likely that they will return to that space.”

The Sports Club for Health project’s closing conference zoomed in on traditional club sport as a driver for health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) promotion. Its theme echoed the plenary panel at the start of the day, which looked at how different sectors can deliver on the EU’s #HealthyLifestyle4All campaign and vision.

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Quote of the day “Physical education is the only subject at school that builds the ‘hardware’ – children’s physical capacities – not the ‘software’. It’s like a computer: if your hardware is old and tired, it won’t work. You need good hardware to run the software. Our bodies are supplying the brain and our brains did not evolve because we were sitting; we were running, climbing and catching our food.” Well said, Gregor Starc (plenary panellist and member of ISCA’s HEPA Expert Group).

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MOVE CONGRESS LATIN AMERICA

Sport 4.0 in a transforming society

Under the headline ‘Sport 4.0’, Sesc Rio de Janeiro and Sesc São Paulo organised a feast of a continental MOVE Congress, complemented with an opening event in connection to the MOVE Week Latin America coordinated by Sesc São Paulo (see p. 35). Sesc Rio de Janeiro’s Fernando Alves da Silva said he was thrilled to bring the event back to Brazil: “Organising the MOVE Congress Latin America was an unforgettable experience! We were so inspired by the MOVE Congress 2021 in Brussels and 2019 Budapest that we had a dream, and dreams are made for come true: To organise a MOVE Congress and give it a special Brazilian and Latin American cultural experience in 2022. Seeing the smiles, the inspiration, the incredible results, the feedback and the active experiences of the multinational audience, we know that we succeeded in delivering on our promise and on the MOVE Congress legacy of international exchange and collaboration.” Unique it was! Hosted in Sesc Rio’s facility in Copacabana, the main stage was built as a “centre court” with the audience seated around the stage. This created

MOVE Congress Latin America 2022 in numbers • 17 hours of content • 28 speakers from 9 Latin American countries • 820 participants (in-person and online) from 23 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) • 120,000+ people reached online • Organisers: Sesc Rio de Janeiro, Sesc São Paulo and Senac Rio de Janeiro; UNESCO, UNHCR, CREF1 Rio de Janeiro and ISCA

an engaging and intimate atmosphere, in spite of the large number of 820 participants who had registered for the in-person and live-streamed event. With inspiring and challenging interventions from the dense 28-speaker programme, the participants were taken on a journey with stops at the following topics: Sport 4.0 – tendencies and relevance of a society in constant transformation. The scientific perspective! Sport challenges as sustainable practice in the area of climate change. The sustainability perspective! Sport and human development. The peace perspective! Sport and all forms of human diversity. The inclusion perspective! Sport and the use of technology. The futuristic (and somewhat scary) perspective!

Sesc São Paulo, which also coordinates MOVE Week Latin America for ISCA and was the host of the MOVE Congress in 2012, staged an opening event in São Paulo on 22 September and Carolina Seixas, Sport Manager from Sesc São Paulo said: “With the MOVE Week and MOVE Congress Latin America 2022, we are happy to lead the way for movement, sport and leisure in the Latin American continent. It was great to work with Sesc Rio de Janeiro and we look forward to the next challenge with ISCA!” The MOVE Congress Latin America was also an occasion for the ISCA Latin American partners to meet and deliberate on the future development of sport and physical activity on the continent. The journey continues – next stop, the MOVE Congress 2023 in Europe. movecongress.com

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NowWeMOVE

CAMP

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Events, howto guides and a growing community The 11th year of the NowWeMOVE campaign celebrated popular events such as No Elevators Day, MOVE Week and European School Sport Day. It also welcomed a new coordinator, Irina Coreachina, featured a series of online meet-ups for National Coordinators, and introduced a new stair-climbing challenge and MOVE challenge. Thanks to our EU operating grant in the field of Health, we could also capture the story behind our MOVEment Pills, and take deep dives into physical activity, mental health and healthy lifestyles in three brand new toolkits.

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LATIN AMERICA MOVE Week made its traditional turn around the globe and landed – with typically amazing results – in Latin America as the 10th Semana MOVE. Five thousand free events attracted over 600,000 participants across the continent from 17-25 September, leading up to a special continental MOVE Congress (see p. 26). 10 was the magic number in 2022! National coordinators from 10 countries activated their local cities, institutions, schools, clubs and other organisers during Semana MOVE. This edition of the campaign had a slogan ‘MOVE Week – Your Way’, which perfectly echoed the international slogan #FindYourMOVE, and offered activities in five different categories: MOVE Zen, MOVE Kids, MOVE Sport, MOVE Water and MOVE Gym, so that each participant could experience different types of activities whilst being part of the campaign as a whole. More than 400 activities in Brazil were organised alone by Sesc São Paulo, the ISCA member that has been the

MOVE Week Latin America 2022 in numbers • 10 countries • 4479 events • 607,648 participants

driving force behind Semana MOVE since 2013. Carol Seixas, Physical and Sports Development Manager at Sesc São Paulo, considers the strategy of this edition as being “an effective way to promote healthy lifestyles and decrease the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles”. Her colleague Leonardo Calix Soares emphasised the successful engagement of hundreds of people in Colombia thanks to efforts of COMPENSAR and the Sports Ministry, as well as in Mexico, pointing out that the promotion of “the Sports Ministry and Mr Juan Manuel Huesca was vital for the success”. Definitely, as more than 180,000 people attended MOVE Week in Mexico! The Latin American MOVE Week also demonstrated great results in media and communication channels all over Latin America. The events got vast coverage in local newspapers and spiked the interest of Brazilian radio and public TV channels. The social media channels were buzzing with likes and comments, too, with more than two hundred thousand accounts reached on social networks and over a thousand of posts with the campaign’s hashtags. PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2022: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. semanamuevela.com

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ITALY | UISP Roma

MOVE WEEK enters its second decade

MALTA | MOVE M

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TURKEY | Muğla Province

The 11th MOVE Week on 23-29 May 2022 not only got Europeans moving, it also reached Asia and Africa, as far as Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and India. It also expanded even further into the digital realm with our social media challenge, launched in May. For the #MOVEChallenge2022, we invited individuals and organisations to share videos that inspire people to be physically active. All of the contest’s participants became MOVEment Ambassadors and our international jury awarded prizes to the Top 3 videos. The three prize-winners were offered the chance to be featured as MOVEment Pills (short exercise) videos on the ISCA and NowWeMOVE’s social media channels. Traditional sporting activities happened all around the world, too! 2022 saw not also a great diversity in activities – the organisers also got creative and even organised activities that considered the mental health of the participants. A natural reserve in the south of Italy became the setting for the hiking event Sound Walk, and the citizens of Muğla Province in Turkey had the opportunity to appreciate the ‘cittaslow’ philosophy of the local SlowSports Fest. Overall, Italy registered the largest number of MOVE Week events. Initiatives addressing global environmental challenges were also combined with those promoting physical activity. For example, MOVE Malta invited people to go for a walk, run or a bike ride and donate their kilometres at the website – with a promise that a tree will be planted for every 50 active kilometres submitted.

BULGARIA | BG

Be Active

MOVE Week 2022 in numbers • 27 countries • 3 continents • 919 events registered (including European Mile) • 100+ #MOVEChallenge2022 video entries

A major milestone for NowWeMOVE involved the senate in the Romanian Parliament amending the national Sports Law to include MOVE Week in its articles of law, meaning that MOVE Week can now be supported by the Romanian Ministry of Sport, National Sports Associations, sports clubs and local communities. PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2022: Albania, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey. moveweek.eu

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MOVEMENT

PILLS The story. The eye-catching boxes. The how-to toolkit.

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Have you ever wondered whether doctors and medical practitioners can prescribe exercise to their patients? The answer is yes – and many are doing so today. And many more could be doing the same, but may not have the time, the skills or (unfortunately) the incentive to do so. Did you also know that physical activity promoters like yourself can nudge medical professionals and pharmacies to give out “exercise on prescription” in the form of MOVEment Pills? These are not pills to make you “go”, but to get up and go! (if you know what we mean ) More and more evidence is emerging about the physical and mental health benefits of exercise and leisure. But time is still one of the biggest barriers preventing people from taking up regular physical activity. The clue to taking the first steps towards an active lifestyle is to break it down into “bite-sized” movements – like pausing quickly to take medicine or (in colloquial terms) to pop a pill. At ISCA, we first developed our eye-catching MOVEment Pills boxes in 2015 (based on a concept created by our Italian member UISP, who has partnered with pharmacies across Italy to distribute its pill boxes). In our new toolkit, supported by an EU operational grant in the field of Health, we share the story behind the idea and how MOVE Agents can use it in their work. OUR CURRENT MOVEMENT PILLS PACKAGE INCLUDES: 1. MOVEment Pills boxes and physical activity inspiration blisters (fake “pills”) 2. A patient information leaflet with “dosage” instructions (in English) 3. YouTube playlists featuring 50+ short exercise videos for the Office, Home and Outdoors 4. A letter template for MOVE Agents to approach potential partners 5. Social media visuals, videos and messages

MOVEment Pills Toolkit Scan the QR code to trace the history of exercise on prescription and how UISP and ISCA's MOVEment Pills boxes evolved from the concept!

6. Webpage under the NowWeMOVE campaign umbrella featuring all resources Browse our how-to toolkit to learn more about this innovative tool, which can open doors to conversations with potential partners, enhance your media coverage, and engage people at your events by showing them the types of exercises that can be done in the same amount of time as it takes to make a coffee or tea.

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No Elevators Day

TAKE A MOMENT TO REFRESH YOUR MIND AND BODY

No Elevators Day is an initiative that helps people, can have a great impact on our society, and also contributes to reducing the carbon footprint of our industry. JOSE GUILLERMO DIAZ | ARTIEM Hotels CEO

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On 27 April, MOVE Agents from 30 countries shared their creative ideas for active ‘brain breaks’ using the stairs. We invited people all over the world in office buildings or apartment blocks, at universities and schools, and people commuting to work via train or metro stations to #UseTheStairs for their health and wellbeing and celebrate the 8th edition of No Elevators Day. These days it is essential to take a break from screens and office chairs to care for ourselves and to refresh our minds and bodies. Every little bit of physical activity can add a boost of endorphins and energy to our days. These were the messages we promoted on social media with a new series of brain breaks and stair-climbing Instagram/ Facebook Reels and YouTube Shorts, as well as a new toolkit called Physical Activity for Mental Wellbeing: A Brain Break Toolkit for Office Workers, supported by an EU operating grant in the field of Health. In 2022 there were 159 No Elevators Day events held in 17 countries, and participants in 13 more countries shared their local actions via social media using the #NoElevatorsDay and #UseTheStairs hashtags. Some schools in Spain even integrated the day into different subject classes, such as maths (counting steps), craft (making No Elevators Day mascot costumes) and art (drawing motivational posters). ARTIEM Hotels is the first major hotel chain to get behind the day, with CEO Jose Guillermo Diaz pledging his support to ISCA member DES’s Spanish campaign. No Elevators Day also featured on Spanish and Bulgarian television, the Sports Union of Slovenia promoted the day as part of its Active Ageing Festival, and schools, colleagues and universities took the stair-climbing challenge in Albania, Bulgaria, Norway and Spain. At the new ISCA office in Denmark, Buen, our youth officer led staff throughout the building through some quick active break games on the stairs. PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2022: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, UK. no-elevators-day.nowwemove.com

Mental Wellbeing Toolkit Scan the QR code to download our guide to active and break breaks including stair-climbing! - to boost office workers' mental wellbeing.

PHOTO: BG Be Active

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EUROPEAN SCHOOL SPORT DAY Moves more than 2.5 million children in 41 countries Did you know that just under 20% of European Week of Sport participants took part in a European School Sport Day® event in 2022? In Europe alone, 2,536,881 children celebrated the Day on 30 September and, worldwide, 2,574,681 students from 13,631 schools in 41 countries joined in. The European Week of Sport, which ran from 23-30 September, had over 13 million participants in 40 countries across Europe. The outstanding engagement in European School Sport Day® across the world underlines why it has been one of the European Week of Sport’s flagship events since 2016. European School Sport Day® is coordinated by the Hungarian School Sport Federation (HSSF) in cooperation with its founding partners, ISCA, the European Physical Education Association (EUPEA), Youth Sport Trust International, BG Be Active and V4Sport, plus National Coordinators from around Europe. New countries taking part in 2022 included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Kosovo, Montenegro and Palestine, which meant that three continents celebrated the Day simultaneously. Once again, the overall participation in the event climbed significantly – by 17% (2,198,000 to 2,574,000) after a 10% recovery in 2021 during the pandemic.

Key facts • Coordinator: Hungarian School Sport Federation • Co-funded by: European Commission (Erasmus+ Sport Not-for-Profit Events) • Grant amount: €300,000

GOING GREEN IN SPORT The theme of 8th European School Sport Day® was ‘Going Green in Sport’, an idea that put school sport and environmental awareness into the same spotlight and inspired some creative activities such as plogging, wastefree games and tree-planting. BG Be Active produced this year’s theme toolkit drawing on experience from ‘sport without waste’ initiatives carried out in 200 Bulgarian schools. DES secured support from the Kilian Jornet and Carano 4 Children Foundations, with their founders, the mountain running champion Kilian Jornet Burgada, and Senior Adviser for the EU Recovery Taskforce Alessandro Carano, getting behind ESSD as going green ambassadors. ISCA AS COMMUNICATIONS PARTNER ISCA has led the European School Sport Day® (ESSD) communications campaign from 2020-2022 together with HSSF and will continue this support in 2023. ISCA produced a range of materials, including social media guides, visuals and videos, plus a brand new toolkit with HSSF expert Dr Viktória Anna Kovács on healthy lifestyle promotion for children, ‘More activity. Less sitting. Better diet. Better sleep’. PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN 2022 Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine and United Kingdom. essd.eu

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This year we are ambassadors, since the main motto is ‘going green in sport’ and we want sport in schools to always have a global and cross-cutting look towards environmental responsibility. KILIAN JORNET BURGADA |

Kilian Jornet Foundation

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EUROPEAN WEEK OF SPORT DENMARK Almost 600,000 people join in Danish Exercise Week When implementing the European Week of Sport in Denmark, the ISCA focuses not only on facilitating a week of events in September, but also on inspiring people to find a physical activity of their liking and to #BeActive all year round. Our collaboration with the Danish Exercise Week (Danmarks Motionsuge) has allowed us to extend the variety of activities offered, as well as the timeline, with the events happening during the months of September and October. Danmarks Motionsuge was established in 2021 by a partnership of the lead actors in Denmark’s sport and physical activity sector including Danish Gymnastics and Sports Association (DGI), the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF), the Danish School Sport Federation, the Danish Federation for Company Sport and ISCA. In its second year more than 5,000 events took place as part of the initiative, activating over half a million of Denmark’s residents and visitors. From large-scale national initiatives such as Danish School Sport Day, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2022, and the Danish Workplace Activity Week, to smaller come-and-try evenings in local sport clubs, walks in the neighbourhoods or playing historical wooden games as part of the #BeActive and Culture Night (Kulturnatten), there was an option for everyone to join in this national celebration of movement. “Being the project leader, it was naturally a busy working period, but I also made sure to participate in different types of events myself,” says Ricco Victor, who coordinates the Danish Exercise Week. “The highlight was taking part in the #BeActive Night Halloween Run together with my 12-year-old daughter Ellen. After running 4 km across a creepy cemetery and garage she asked: ‘Why is it already over?’. I think this is a perfect indication of Danmarks Motionsuge and European Week of Sport Denmark’s success.” europeanweekofsport.dk

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Video highlights from #BeActive Night

Light run (Lysløb)

youtu.be/pKkA-ikqHq8

Halloween Run

youtu.be/FHQgrFcJRvk

Kulturnatten at Realdania

youtu.be/PmoTtmajmpE

European Week of Sport Denmark 2022 in numbers 5,894 events 593,297 participants

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Projects led by our

MEMBERS AND PARTNERS SCHOOLS4HEALTH

A broad partner consortium advocates whole school approaches to healthy lifestyles and health literacy promotion and to address interrelated societal challenges like the impacts of Covid-19, social and health inequalities and environmental degradation. Coordinator: EuroHealthNet, Belgium • September 2022 – August 2025 • Grant €1,372,050.66

GAP WOMEN A campaign to eliminate the gender gap in sport, particularly among women aged 18-50 and groups at risk of social exclusion (immigrants, refugees, physically/intellectually disabled, mentally ill and victims of gender violence). Coordinator: Unió de Federacions de Catalunya • June 2022 – May 2024 • Grant €400,000 • Website: gapwomen.ufec.cat

IDI4SPORT

FITBACK4LITERACY

An ambition to improve accessibility for people with disabilities in and through sport and to include the project in the framework of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A project aiming to facilitate the proper use of the FitBack platform for monitoring physical literacy and fitness among children and adolescents in Europe.

Coordinator: France Education International • January 2023 – December 2025 • Grant €400,000

Coordinator: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Sport, Slovenia • January 2023 – December 2025 • Grant €400,000

MOVING SCHOOLS CHALLENGER

BEYOND HORIZONS

A year-long challenge, led by NowWeMOVE National Coordinators, to teach the value of a healthy lifestyle to children through school-based physical activity. Coordinator: Deporte para la Educacion y la Salud, Spain • January 2023 – December 2025 • Grant €400,000

HOORAY An innovative approach that invites adolescents aged between 13 and 19 years to develop their own educational materials to promote physical activity for better mental health and wellbeing. Coordinator: ENGSO, Sweden • January 2023 – June 2025 • Grant €400,000

The primary aim of the Beyond Horizons projects is to promote integration and physical activity through outdoor sports to young people at risk of social exclusion. Coordinator: European Network of Outdoor Sports, France • January 2023 – December 2025 • Grant €400,000

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SCULT POINT An innovative and socially engaging, technology-based initiative to democratise coaching and sport mentoring (volunteering) by making it independent of a particular sports club or location in Europe. Coordinator: SCULT Foundation, Estonia • January 2021 – December 2023 • Grant €399,335 • Website: scult.org/en/about/ scultpoint

TOWARDS AN EU SPORT DIPLOMACY

MONITORA – MONITORING RACISM Professional capacity building of CSOs, grassroots sport associations, national and local institutions to monitor, document and report discrimination and racism in grassroots sport in four EU countries. Coordinator: Lunaria Associazione di Promozione Sociale • January 2023 – December 2024 • Grant €400,000

GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE AND MOBILITY IN SPORT (GEM)

Learn about a new common approach to sport diplomacy in the European Union with the TES-D learning roadmap, including research papers, videos and examples of diplomatic actions.

In 2022, a V4V project survey revealed that 36% of 2000 sports organisations across Europe noticed their volunteer numbers had decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic, underlining the need to attract people back to sport volunteering.

A directory that provides sports and environmental organisations, local authorities and companies tools to combine sport and physical activity and environmental awareness promotion in cities.

The SPIN Refugees project offered a support grant scheme for refugees and asylum seekers to obtain a training qualification in sport in 2022. Coordinator: Fairplay Initiative, VIDC, Austria • January 2020 – December 2022 • Grant €295,000 • Website: sportinclusion.net/spinrefugees-project

A #WithoutWaste movement for leisure and sport that applies the placemaking methodology and tactical urbanism approach to the coordination of waste-free grassroots sport events.

V4V: VOLUNTEERING IN SPORT IN EUROPE

CITY! GREEN! GO!

SPIN REFUGEES

PHOTO: BG Be Active

Coordinator: BG Be Active, Bulgaria • June 2022 – May 2024 • Grant €400,000

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

Coordinator: Budapest Sport Service Provider Public Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary • January 2023 – December 2024 • Grant €120,000

SPORT WITHOUT WASTE

Coordinator: EOSE, France • January 2021 – December 2023 • Grant €399,010 • Website: projects.eose.org/project/v4v

The GEM project allowed school sport federations to travel to each other’s countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Spain, the UK and Hungary) to visit schools and community sports initiatives there. EUPEA and ISCA took part as international experts. Coordinator: Hungarian School Sport Federation • January 2021 – December 2022 • Grant €191,209 • Website: gem.move-transfer.com/ project

SENTRY SPORT A common methodology to help uncover, prevent and mitigate discrimination in sport settings, emphasising the role that grassroots sport can play in tackling discrimination and supporting victims. Coordinator: UISP, Italy • January 2021 – June 2023 • Grant €392,585 • Website: sentrysport.org

ISCA involved in a record 16 partner projects In addition to the 9 projects run by ISCA in 2022-2023, we are also part of 16 projects coordinated by our members and partners. These projects are supported by the EU’s Erasmus+ programme, Preparatory Actions and Horizon Europe.

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

ESC VOLUNTEERS' "5D EXPERIENCE" AT ISCA “Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that taught me how to make a positive impact” More than twenty years ago ISCA joined the programme European Voluntary Service (EVS) for youth that we now know as the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). Thanks to the opportunities it provides, we are witnessing a growing number of young people who want to spend a year in Copenhagen working at ISCA. The number of applicants reached an absolute record in 2022 with more than 1000 applications received for the four positions in ISCA departments of communications, finance, project management and membership. Why is volunteering at ISCA so attractive? Read on to find out what the Youth Officers who were part of our team in 2022 have to say about it.

in the No Elevators Day campaign. Check them out striking a pose on a photo from that day! The 2022 event featured creative reels made by and with the volunteers, also kicking off our Brain Breaks campaign.

The year was full of activities and events, giving the volunteers a plenty of chance to learn new skills, meet people, travel around Europe, at the same time contributing to the development of the NGO sector through our projects. The volunteers also became social media stars after releasing an instructional video on how to participate

Erasmus+ European Solidarity Corps (ESC) and Traineeships/ Internships provide opportunities for young people to gain work experience, live abroad and enhance solidarity among young European citizens across borders, to provide informal learning and to make concrete contributions to society. ISCA has been an EVS/ESC host organisation since 2001 and has hosted 79 volunteers and trainees from more than 20 countries.

Our readers and followers also enjoyed finding out about the ISCA Alumni – that’s what we call Youth Officers who have already completed their ESC project with ISCA. Five previous volunteers have shared stories on our social media channels about where life took them and how their careers developed after their journey with ISCA. It turns out that it’s not uncommon to write a book!

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Our volunteering experience at ISCA AIZADA BURKHANIDINOVA

Volunteering at ISCA is a 5D experience: working in a multicultural environment across different time zones, bringing innovation, challenging myself, yet taking care of my wellbeing and physical health, and most importantly, knowing the team has got your back by being flexible and supportive. This is a great boot camp to grow professionally, network, upskill in stakeholder engagement and connect with people from all around the world. It is truly fulfilling and I am excited about the future! DILIARA GATIIATULLINA

ISCA for me is a unique place in the multicultural, flexible, open-minded environment with so many international projects, amazing people, and opportunities to challenge yourself. I am so grateful to be part of it and to have this unique chance in my life to grow here both personally and professionally. Even after half of my one-year journey, I can say for sure that this unforgettable experience of working with ISCA in Copenhagen has totally changed me as a person. COSMIN URSEA

JOVANCHE NEDELKOVSKI

Volunteering for ISCA in finances was the perfect introduction to the world of a multinational organisation that coordinates numerous projects – an opportunity I was looking for. I learned lots during my one year, and what makes this experience even more exciting is the first-hand exposure I got to the Danish work culture and language. I wouldn’t have done my ESC volunteering anywhere else.

One year with ISCA has been a great platform for growth and rediscovery, both on professional and personal levels. I'm thankful for the privilege of working with an incredibly dedicated team who shares a passion for physical activity. The experience allowed me to polish my skills and gain valuable experience in the notfor-profit sector, as well as meet and work with people from all over the world, broaden my cultural perspectives, and form longlasting connections. I will always look back with gratitude at this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that taught me how to make a positive impact in my communities.

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ISCA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2021-2023

Vice President, ISCA Latin America Chair

Vice President

MARIA LUIZA SOUZA DIAS

Youth Sport Trust International, UK

Executive Committee Member

PATRICE RODER

DANIELA CONTI

JAKUB KALINOWSKI

President

MOGENS KIRKEBY

DGI, Denmark

Serviço Social do Comércio (SESC), Brazil

HELEN VOST

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

UISP, Italy

V4Sport Foundation, Poland

ISCA North America Chair

ISCA Africa Chair

Honorary Committee Member

DR. JAYNE GREENBERG

Egyptian Sports Culture Association, Egypt

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

ASHRAF MAHMOUD

RUGGERO ALCANTERINI

Federazione Italiana Sport per Tutti (FIST), Italy

Executive Committee Member

LILIANA ORTIZ DE LA CRUZ

Executive Committee Member

MICHAEL TIEMANN

Fundacion pro Deporte y Recreation para todos, Colombia

Deutscher Turner-bund (German Gymnastics Federation), Germany

Executive Committee Member (substitute)

ISCA Asia Chair

BRANCO VUJOVIC

Association Sport for All Serbia

SIU YIN CHEUNG

Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong, China

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ISCA STAFF

SASKA BENEDICIC TOMAT

RACHEL PAYNE

GEORGI STAYKOV

LASKA NENOVA

Secretary General

Head of Projects

Head of Digital

js@isca-web.org

sbt@isca-web.org

Communications Manager

Head of Membership and Campaigns

JACOB SCHOUENBORG

gs@isca-web.org

ln@isca-web.org

rpa@isca-web.org

MONIKA REŠETAR

LAURA-MARIA TIIDLA

ELENA GARCIA MORALES

IRINA COREACHINA

KRISTINE ONARHEIM

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

CAROLE PONCHON

Social Media Specialist

Project Coordinator

mm@isca-web.org

he@isca-web.org

cp@isca-web.org

PAULINA GODLEWSKA

Membership Administration and Communication

ALMINA GERMANAVICIUTE Youth Officer ag@isca-web.org

pg@isca-web.org

SABINA MAMMADZADA

SHUBHAM MANE

KRISTINA PEKACH

COSMIN URSEA

JOVANCHE NEDELKOVSKI

Youth Officer

ssm@isca-web.org

kp@isca-web.org

ccu@isca-web.org

jn@isca-web.org

sm@isca-web.org

DILIARA GATIIATULLINA

AIZADA BURKHANIDINOVA

Youth Officer

dg@isca-web.org

azb@isca-web.org

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

2022 (€) estimated

2021 (€)

2020 (€)

2019 (€)

General support and payments

468,388

464,005

459,888

471,983

Project related support

1,231,928

1,636,785

999,012

1,259,267

Others

5,500

6,670

15,865

7,248

Total

1,705,816

2,107,461

1,474,765

1,738,498

Project and activities

1,468,678

1,763,928

1,148,219

1,431,928

Organisational development

7,500

6,771

1,079

17,072

Secretariat

166,271

190,876

265,625

198,672

Others (Depreciation, etc)

Total

1,642,449

1,961,575

1,414,923

1,647,672

RESULT

63,367

145,886

59,842

90,826

ISCA EXPENDITURES

18.7%

21.8%

Projects funded by EU4Health programme (Hepa by ISCA) (372,469 €) 18.1%

Erasmus + Sport projects (EU) (319,463 €) Erasmus + Sport partners' projects (EU) (309,247 €) DGI (181,208 €) Other projects with financial support (NovoNordisk, Nordplus, CISU) (162,360 €) Bilateral membership agreements (134,228 €)

10.6%

0.3% 1.6%

Ministry of Culture Denmark (124,832 €) European Solidarity Corps (EU) (68,388€) Membership fees (28,120 €)

9.5%

4.0% 7.3%

Other income (5,500 €) 2022 total income (estimated) € 1,705,816

7.9%

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

ISCA ANNUAL REPORT

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. Sign up for free!

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