{"id":867796,"date":"2025-08-24T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/new-european-network-to-foster-youth-participation-in-sport-governance\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:14:05","slug":"new-european-network-to-foster-youth-participation-in-sport-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/new-european-network-to-foster-youth-participation-in-sport-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"New European Network to foster youth participation in sport governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Eurochild member ENGSO Youth launches an initiative to give youth a platform to lead, influence, and transform the sports landscape<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>This initiative, part of the EUYOUSPORT project, foresees the establishment of representation mechanisms within governance structures and decision-making processes, raising awareness and building the capacity of sport organisations to implement effective youth participation strategies through activities such as <strong>youth programmes, volunteering, peer education<\/strong>, and non-formal education through sport.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to <strong>address the underrepresentation of young people in leadership and decision-making roles <\/strong>within sport organisations. While youth are among the most active in the sports community, their voices often go unheard when it comes to governance and decision-making in sport. This new network aims to change that. It also created an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engso-education.eu\/euyousport\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>educational course<\/strong><\/a> designed to deepen young people\u2019s understanding of the European Union\u2019s institutional framework, including training on the EU Institutions, EU Sport Policy and EU Youth Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Network will <strong>operate mostly online <\/strong>via a LinkedIn group and will be guided by <strong>five core objectives<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote youth participation in sport governance at all levels;<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity through leadership training and resources;<\/li>\n<li>Encourage collaboration by sharing best practices and innovative models for youth participation;<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for inclusive policies at both national and European levels;<\/li>\n<li>Bridge the Youth-Sport gap: connect youth and sport organisations, mainstreaming youth into the sport sector and sport into the youth sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The participants of the Network should be <strong>youth and sports organisations<\/strong> interested in and committed to working on and developing youth participation in sport. In order to join the network, organisations should make an agreement in the form of a pledge where they commit to further promote and develop youth participation in sport governance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are interested in joining the network, email <a href=\"http:\/\/eurochild.org\/mailto:di******@********th.eu\" data-original-string=\"\/FiPMmaGrugSNzgGPKI5lA==7f4o9vc88ZMvbTKR+e7gBTjJdpSxgXA6rgWf+PxR9meS3Q=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"http:\/\/eurochild.org\/mailto:di******@********th.eu\" data-original-string=\"r4NTDrpLjdRbYv7K\/xBvww==7f4DvlMmw0WKnbfVtvioloURQEAqd4G0ZJm2RpF2gPXR14=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\">Tiago Guilherme<\/a>, ENGSO Youth Managing Director<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/engsoyouth.eu\/euyousport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">project website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p> Davide Rambaldi<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eurochild.org\/news\/new-european-youth-and-sport-network-to-foster-child-participation-in-sport-governance\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurochild member ENGSO Youth launches an initiative to give youth a platform to lead, influence, and transform the sports landscape. This initiative, part of the EUYOUSPORT project, foresees the establishment of representation mechanisms within governance structures and decision-making processes, raising awareness and building the capacity of sport organisations to implement effective youth participation strategies through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25023,1413],"tags":[7942,12546],"class_list":{"0":"post-867796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european","8":"category-network","9":"tag-european","10":"tag-network"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}