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Croatia presented its roadmap for effective child safeguarding in sport policies
Croatia presented its roadmap developed within the joint EU – CoE project “Child Safeguarding in Sport” (CSiS). The event was organised by the Ministry of Tourism and Sport on 12 July 2022 in Zagreb, and online for the international speakers. It gathered about 60 participants. Ms Nikolina Brnjac,...
“Child Safeguarding in Sport” comes to an end: time focus on its achievements
The results of the EU-CoE joint project “Child Safeguarding in Sport” (CSiS) were presented at the closing event which took place on 23 June 2022 in hybrid format from Strasbourg. They include the development of country-specific roadmaps for effective child safeguarding in sport policies in the...
CSiS closing event
The closing event of "Child Safeguarding in Sport" will gather representatives of the CSiS partner countries, international experts and representatives of good practices to present the project results, discuss implementation of child safeguarding policies and share the lessons learned. Members of...
Launch of the Belgian FWB roadmap for Child Safeguarding in Sport
ADEPS – Sport Administration of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (FWB) Ministry, as the coordinator for the “Child Safeguarding in Sport” (CSiS) project in FWB, organised an event to present their roadmap for effective child safeguarding in sport policies. The event was held on 8 June 2022 in...
The first meeting of the Pool of international experts on safe sport
The first meeting of the Pool of international experts on safe sport, established through the joint EU-CoE project “Child Safeguarding in Sport”, took place on 4 May 2022 in an online format. Policy-makers, researchers and academics, specialists supporting people with lived experience of...
Safe sport pool of experts
The pool of international experts on safe sport has been established as a means for peer-learning, capacity building and fostering exchanges between all of those who have a role to play in preventing and combating any form of violence and abuse against children in the field of sport. The pool...
Portugal: “Safeguarding children and young people: ensuring a healthy, safe, and positive sports environment”
A high-level event organised by the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth - the Portuguese national coordinator for the “Child Safeguarding in Sport” (CSIS) project - took place on 10 February 2022. The event was organised in hybrid format (Lisbon/online) and brought together over 170...
Portugal organised a national event to present and promote its Child Safeguarding in Sport (CSiS) roadmap
On 10 February 2022, the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth organised a national event to present and promote its country-specific roadmap for effective child protection in sport policies. The event, which was held in a hybrid format (at the Lisbon Youth Centre and online), brought together...
The cycle of second round tables in the CSiS partner countries is completed
The cycle of second round tables in CSiS partner countries was completed at the end of 2021, with the ones organised with Croatia (15 October), Israel (21 October) and Norway (30 November). The draft country-specific roadmaps for effective child safeguarding in sport policies were presented and...
Call for applications: Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport
This call for applications is launched to invite interested and qualified candidates to submit their applications to become a member of the Pool of International Experts on Safe Sport. Applications forms are to be sent by the 27 October to [email protected] and [email protected] by...
Round tables ongoing in Child Safeguarding in Sport (CSiS) partner countries
Round tables continue to be organised in CSiS partner countries. These are important encounters for preparing country-specific roadmaps to develop effective policies on child safeguarding in sport. Portugal is the first partner country to prepare its draft roadmap, which was presented to the...
The collection of practices and resources has been launched!
We are pleased to inform you that a collection of practices and resources on child safeguarding in sport has been launched. We are looking for resources, projects, educational materials, awareness-raising initiatives etc. about safeguarding children in sport from all kinds of violence and abuse....
A sixth partner country
Croatia has just joined the CSiS project bringing the number of partner countries to 6. Welcome on board Croatia!
Webinar series “Up your game, strengthen your squad!”
A webinar series “Up your game, strengthen your squad!” was organised from 13 January to 4 February 2021, as part of the EU-COE “Child Safeguarding in Sport” joint project. Five successfully implemented systems of Child Safeguarding OfficersWERE showcased. The presenters of each scheme passed on...
First round tables in Austria, Belgium, Israel and Portugal
A first session of individual round tables using virtual meeting technology took place in Austria (15 July), Belgium (23 July), Portugal (20 July) and Israel (22 October) to start the process of providing them with concrete, practical and tailor-made roadmaps to implement effective child...
Launch of the EU-CoE project Child safeguarding in sport (CSiS)
Welcome on board! “Child safeguarding in sport (CSiS)” was officially launched through two joint events: 10 June 2020: kick-off videoconference, where the project was presented and discussed in detail, along with the methodology used when designing the country-specific roadmaps. 18 June 2020:...
Child sexual abuse in sport
Meet our experts: Kari Fasting and Havard Ovregard
Kari Fasting, Professor Emerita at the Norwegian school of sport and Havard Ovregard, Adviser, NIF (Norwegian Olympic & Paralympic committee and Confederation of sports) talking about prevalence of child sexual abuse in sport, reducing the taboo and actions to be undertaken to better prevent...
Our pool of experts!
The Pro Safe Sport+ pool of European experts on sexual violence in sport is now online! The training kit brings together policy-makers, practitioners, researchers/academics and victim support specialists, selected through a restricted call for applications. It is a means for peer-learning,...
Our resource centre is online!
The Pro Safe Sport+ resource centre is now online! This resource centre is a one stop-shop for the development of preventive and protective policies and measures in Europe. It is a tool to support public authorities, sport organisations and other interested stakeholders in their efforts to stop...
Our new training kit!
We are pleased to inform you that the training kit to prevent and react to situations of potential sexual violence against children and young people in sport, is available now! This training kit provides information and training content to help those in positions of influence in the field of...
