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European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation Youth

European Sports NGO Youth (ENGSO Youth) is the non-governmental umbrella youth organisation of ENGSO (European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation).[1] It has the aim to represent the young Europeans in sports in 34 countries and to achieve, promote and support the implementation of the ENGSO guidelines for children and youth sport. ENGSO Youth promotes health, sustainable development, sport diplomacy, education and employability, and inclusion through sports.[2] ENGSO Youth is member of the European Youth Forum since 2007.

European Sports NGO Youth
European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation Youth
AbbreviationENGSO Youth
EstablishedApril 12, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-04-12) in Bratislava, Slovakia
TypeNGO
Registration no.802493-0839
Location
Official language
English
Chair
Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė
Vice-Chair
Filip Filipić
Parent organization
ENGSO | The European Sports NGO
Staff3
Volunteers
9
Websitewww.youth-sport.net

History

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At the beginning of 2000, on initiative of the German Sports Youth (Deutsche Sportjugend), eight national sport umbrella organisations from eight European countries started to co-operate in the "Network for the European Youth Work in Sports – Sport Youth goes Europe". These partners have joined forces on European level to engage and lobby for the interests of young people that are organised in sport clubs and federations.

Vision, mission and aims

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According to the official website, ENGSO Youth is driven by the following strategic principles:

Vision Mission Core Values
Establishing and nourishing strong alliances to empower youth's development through sport. To serve as an overarching platform in creating opportunities within the European youth sport sector through advocacy, strategic actions and networking.
  • Integrity
  • Transparency
  • Equality
  • Inclusion

Organisation

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ENGSO Youth operates by relying on advocacy, projects, policy and networking, with special focus on:

  1. Sustainable development in and through sport;
  2. Inclusion in and through sport;
  3. Health enhancing physical activity;
  4. Education and employability in and through sport;
  5. Sports diplomacy;
  6. Internal development and nourishing cooperation with ENGSO and its organisational bodies.

Aims

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  • To be the youth sport organisation in Europe and offer a platform for individuals, organisations, stakeholders and policy makers to connect, debate and collaborate Europe-wide;
  • To continue involving a growing number of young Europeans, especially those with fewer opportunities, and organisations in sport and in the decision-making process of sport's policies;
  • To develop ENGSO Youth capacities in more regions of Europe;
  • To foster cross-sector cooperation, in order to engage a broader network of partners when tackling European, national and local youth issues;
  • To develop projects with long-lasting, multiplying and self-perpetuating effects on current themes in the youth sector to leave a lasting legacy.

Structure

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ENGSO Youth is structured with a Youth Assembly as the highest decision making body. The Youth Assembly meets annually and decides about statutes, the political platform and the work plan, as well as it elects the Committee of ENGSO Youth. The Committee is elected every 2 years. The Committee consists of 9 members and is responsible for leading and representing the organisation between the Youth Assemblies. The Committee and the Secretariat coordinate the daily work of the organisation.

ENGSO Youth has a secretariat based in Vilnius (Lithuania). ENGSO Youth also has three full time staff members: secretariat, projects and policy manager and communications officer. Additional part-time staff members are responsible for the project management.

Chairperson

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Date Chairperson Nationality
2021-2023 Ms. Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė (re-elected)   Lithuania
2019-2021 Ms. Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė   Lithuania
2017-2019 Mr. Michael Leyendecker   Germany
2015-2017 Mr. Paolo Emilio Adami   Italy
2013-2015 Mr. Jan Holze (re-elected)   Germany
2011-2013 Mr. Jan Holze (re-elected)   Germany
2009-2011 Mr. Jan Holze (re-elected)   Germany
2007-2009 Mr. Jan Holze (re-elected)   Germany
2005-2007 Mr. Jan Holze   Germany
2003-2005 Ms. Rosemary Paul-Chopin   France

Committee Members

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Each committee is elected by the entire membership every 2 years at the Youth Assembly, it consists of:

  • the Chair
  • the Vice-Chair
  • 7 Committee Members

Committee Members: Mandate 2021-2023

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Name Position Nationality
Ms. Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė Chair   Lithuania
Mr. Filip Filipić Vice-Chair   Serbia
Ms. Anett Fodor Committee Member   Hungary
Ms. Henrietta Weinberg Committee Member   Germany
Ms. Iva Glibo Committee Member   Croatia
Mr. Pál Vitalis Joensen Oly Committee Member   Faroe Islands
Mr. Rashan McDonald Committee Member   UK
Mr. Ronalds Rets Rezais Committee Member   Latvia
Mr. Sofie Korbee Committee Member   Netherlands

Committee Members: Mandate 2019-2021

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Name Position Nationality
Ms. Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė Chair   Lithuania
Mr. Filip Filipić Vice-Chair   Serbia
Ms. Lovisa Broms Committee Member   Sweden
Ms. Ivana Pranjić Committee Member   Austria
Ms. Erika Juhász Committee Member (till March 2020)   Hungary
Ms. Anett Fodor Committee Member (from November 2020)   Hungary
Ms. Iva Glibo Committee Member   Croatia
Ms. Kirsten Hasenpusch Committee Member   Germany
Ms. Marianna Cardoso Committee Member   Portugal
Mr. Titouan Martin Barré Committee Member   France

Committee Members: Mandate 2017-2019

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Michael Leyendecker Chair   Germany
Ms. Nevena Vukašinović Vice-Chair   Serbia
Ms. Ugnė Chmeliauskaitė Committee Member   Lithuania
Ms. Lovisa Broms Committee Member (from XX)   Sweden
Ms. Fredrika Lindström Committee Member (till XX)   Sweden
Ms. Erika Juhász Committee Member (from XX)   Hungary
Mr. Bence Garamvölgyi Committee Member (till XX)   Hungary
Ms. Rachel May Committee Member   United Kingdom
Ms. Gerda Katschinka Committee Member   Austria
Ms. Filipa Godinho Committee Member   Portugal
Mr. Niels de Fraguier Committee Member   France

Committee Members: Mandate 2015-2017

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Paolo Emilio Adami Chair   Italy
Mr. Romain Fermon Vice-Chair   France
Mr. Filip Filipić Committee Member   Serbia
Ms. Gerda Katschinka Committee Member   Austria
Ms. Filipa Godinho Committee Member   Portugal
Mr. Michael Leyendecker Committee Member   Germany
Ms. Lea van Breukelen Committee Member   Netherlands
Ms. Mariann Bardocz-Bencsik Committee Member   Hungary
Mr. Xicu Colomar Committee Member   Spain

Committee Members: Mandate 2013-2015

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Jan Holze Chair   Germany
Mr. Paolo Emilio Adami Vice-Chair   Italy
Mr. Julien Buhajezuk Committee Member   Sweden
Ms. Nataša Janković Committee Member   Serbia
Ms. Liis Kaibald Committee Member   Estonia
Ms. Francesca Kelly Committee Member   United Kingdom
Mr. Miikka Neuvonen Committee Member   Finland
Mr. Danej Navrboc Committee Member   Slovenia
Mr. Tormod Tvare Committee Member   Norway

Committee Members: Mandate 2011-2013

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Jan Holze Chair   Germany
Ms. Karine Teow Vice-Chair   France
Mr. Paolo Emilio Adami Committee Member   Italy
Ms. Orsolya Tolnay Committee Member   Hungary
Ms. Merete Spangsberg Nielsen Committee Member   Denmark
Ms. Francesca Kelly Committee Member   United Kingdom
Ms. Nataša Janković Committee Member   Serbia
Ms. Liis Kaibald Committee Member   Estonia
Ms. Kristiina Kangas Committee Member   Finland

Committee Members: Mandate 2009-2011

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Jan Holze Chair   Germany
Ms. Anna-Mari Hämäläinen Vice-Chair   Finland
Mr. Paolo Emilio Adami Committee Member   Italy
Ms. Ivana Anicic Committee Member   Croatia
Ms. Louise Gruchy Committee Member   United Kingdom
Ms. Nataša Janković Committee Member   Serbia
Ms. Agnes Kainz (till May 2010) Committee Member   Austria
Mr. Martin Friedrich (from May 2010) Committee Member   Austria
Mr. Kliton Muca Committee Member   Albania
Ms. Karine Teow Committee Member   France

Staff

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Name Position Nationality
Mr. Matej Manevski Policy and Projects Manager   North Macedonia
Ms. Polona Fonda Communication Officer   Slovenia
Lithuanian Union of Sports Federations Secretariat   Lithuania

Secretariat

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Date Organisation Country
2020-2024 Lithuanian Union of Sports Federations   Lithuania
2017-2020 Hungarian Competitive Sport Federation   Hungary
2014-2017 Olympic Committee of Serbia   Serbia
YYYY-2014 German Olympic Sports Confederation   Germany

Working Groups

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ENGSO Youth recognizes the importance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is committed to contributing to their fulfillment. At the same time, we remain determined to use sport as a tool in their achievement, while narrowing our focus to youth in the grassroots sport sector. Therefore, the following UN Sustainable Development Goals have been selected as our primary long term focus.

Name Main aim SDGs
Inclusion To promote the participation of youth in sport regardless of disability, ethnicity/race, gender, socio-economic status, location, or other background characteristics through building a strategic network, creating tangible opportunities, and engaging in key chances for advocacy.      
Education and Employability To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities, as well as to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for youth within the grassroots sport sector.    
Sustainable Development To support sustainability take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts through the use of sports; to support the Working Group in the implementation of the sustainable approaches.  
Sports Diplomacy To promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for youth and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels connected to the Sport for All sector; Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development within the Sport for All sector.    
Health To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for youth within the grassroots sport sector.  

Activities and projects

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ENGSO Youth has realised several project all using physical activity and sport as a tool for a social change. All project have been realized thanks to grants by the European Union or the Council of Europe. In particular through the Youth in Action Program (Youth Unit, DG Education and Culture),[3] Preparatory Actions in the Field of Sport (Sport Unit, DG Education and Culture)[4] and the Youth Department grants of the Council of Europe.[5] ENGSO Youth is cooperating with several European and International Organisations with which shares objectives and aims. More in detail is a partner of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) of the Council of Europe.[6] ENGSO Youth has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Paralympic Committee[7][8] ENGSO Youth is tightly cooperating on several project with the European University Sports Association - EUSA.[9] A mutual and constant cooperation is also active with the European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation - EGLSF since 2012.[10] ENGSO Youth is the creator of the campaign Youth Sport speaks out on TabooPhobia - Developing a youth led campaign to challenge homophobia in and through sport [11] and cooperated in a European funded project (DAPHNE III) against sexual and gender harassment and abuse in sports, Sport Respect Your Rights.[12]

In the mandates of 2015-2019 ENGSO Youth participated in several Erasmus+ funded projects in various areas of sport, inclusion, employment, sexual violence and other: Sport empowers disabled youth (SEDY), Study on the Contribution of Sport to the Employability of Young People in the Context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, Voices for Truth and Dignity, Activity, Sport and Play for the Inclusion of Refugees in Europe – ASPIRE and RISE - Refugees Integration through Sport.[13]

In 2018 ENGSO You signed a memorandum of understanding with Special Olympics Europe Eurasia.

Currently ENGSO Youth leads the SK4YS - Skills for You(th) through Sport project and participates as a partner organisation in: COME IN! - inclusive sports programmes for young people with and without disabilities, SWinG - Supporting Women in achieving their Goals, EYVOL - Empowering Youth Volunteers through Sport and MONITOR - Monitoring and Evaluation Manual for Sport-for-Employability Programmes.[14]

Publications

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  • Roland Naul and Jan Holze. Sports development and young people: The role of international organizations. Routledge Handbook of Sports Development, Routledge International Handbooks, Editors Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green, Publisher Routledge, 2010, pp. 198–212 ISBN 113401970X

References

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  1. ^ Official ENGSO website https://www.engso.eu.
  2. ^ Official ENGSO Youth website https://www.youth-sport.net.
  3. ^ Youth Unit https://ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.htm.
  4. ^ Sport Unit https://ec.europa.eu/sport/.
  5. ^ Youth Department of the CoE https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/.
  6. ^ Official EPAS Partners https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/epas/partners/partnersngos_en.asp.
  7. ^ EPC https://www.europaralympic.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=118 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ^ Memorandum of Understanding https://www.europaralympic.org/images/stories/Memo_of_Understanding.pdf Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ EUSA https://www.eusa.eu/en/projects.
  10. ^ EGLSF https://www.eglsf.info/eglsf-activities.php.
  11. ^ "ENGSO Youth: 07/2012 - Study Session Sport TabooPhobia". Archived from the original on 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  12. ^ "ENGSO Youth: 2014". Archived from the original on 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  13. ^ Filipic, Filip. "Past projects | ENGSO Youth | Giving youth a real say in sports | Budapest, Hungary". engsoyouth. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  14. ^ Filipic, Filip. "Projects | ENGSO Youth | Giving youth a real say in sports". engsoyouth. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
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