On Tuesday 26 November, the gala evening of the ‘beactive awards’ took place in
the presence of Mrs Ahrenkilde Hansen,director General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture European Commission and Mrs Floor Van Houdt , Head of EAC Unit Sport.
Paul Standaert, was present at the gala evening and the debriefing as representative of the International Board and President Chinellato.
Four awards were presented during the gala evening.
Prof Em Thierry Zintz, past member of Panathlon’ s scientific commission was member of the jury that granted an award to:
- Sport Union Austria, Education award
- Metropole de Lyon France, Workplace award
- Fundacj Rozwoju Sportu Poland, Across Generation award
- Allessio Bernabò Italy, Local Hero award
The evening was followed by a interesting keynote address by former Olympic Gold Fencing, Dr Diana Bianchedi, Chief Strategy Planning &Legacy Milano Cortina 2026.
As always, this event was a fine opportunity to connect with sport enthusiasts from EU countries.
The following morning was the debriefing of the 2024 European Week of Sport. This year was the participation record was again broken.
In 24 countries, 15 million persons have participated at one of the 50.000 Events.
Panathlon International is partner of EWOS since 2015. Since 2020 the PI clubs have accelerated their participation, and the Italian Panathlon Clubs are in the lead. More than 20 Italian clubs organized an event in participation of EWOS.
Paul Standaert is grateful to all the clubs and their presidents in joining this European initiative.
The workplan for 2024-2027 was presented with a focus on three domains:
-integrity and values in sport
-social economic and sustainable dimension of sport
-participation in sport and healthy enhancing physical activity
In 2025 EU will celebrate the 10th anniversary of this great initiative.
As this will be a special year for EWOS, Panathlon could develop an one common initiative that unites clubs all over Europe in EWOS 2025.