At the U19 Women’s World Floorball Championships in Lahti, Finland, we captured the importance of sustainability at the event through interviews with tournament organisers and local officials. Check out our voxpop. Photo credit: M.Hanhisuanto
In this webinar, representatives from the International Floorball Federation and the World Floorball Championships in both 2022 and 2024 explored how sponsors have supported their sustainability journeys, from financing public transport and producing more sustainable clothing, to enabling the repurposing of branding material. Watch the full webinar below:
Sustainability is a key theme for the Women’s U19 World Floorball Championships 2024 in Lahti, Finland. On May 8, the opening day of the tournament, the International Floorball Federation (IFF) will partner with the City of Lahti to host a sustainability seminar. This event will highlight the GAMES project group’s efforts, where the IFF serves […]
Over the next few months, GAMES project partners will collaborate to host a selection of webinars to explore sports event decarbonisation from different perspectives. You can read about them and register below: Webinar 3: How to include sponsors in your event sustainability strategy: The case of the World Floorball Championships In this webinar, representatives from […]
The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH) in Oslo will be the venue for the mid-term conference of the GAMES project, co-funded by the European Union #MakingSportSustainable will reflect on the findings of the project, which has been investigating good practices for decarbonising events in the sports of athletics, biathlon and floorball, since June 2022. […]
Our first GAMES webinar, hosted on Monday 6 November 2023, explored environmental standards and certifications in sport. Bob Ramsak, Head of Sustainability at World Athletics, and Tiberio Daddi, Associate Professor at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, presented their knowledge and experience in this field. Attendees learned: – How World Athletics is developing its own […]
During the 2023 World Athletics Championships, World Athletics hosted the ‘Building Collaborations for Sustainable Events’ panel discussion at the ASICS house in Budapest on Friday 25 August. The session focused on three areas: Reviewing and examining the ambitions of World Athletics and the Budapest LOC around delivering an event in alignment with the World Athletics […]
One of the key tasks of the GAMES project foresees the calculation of the Environmental Footprint (EF) of the main activities conducted in the framework of a large sporting event among athletics, biathlon and floorball. With this aim, researchers from SSSA, with the valuable help of World Athletics, will carry out the study of the […]
GAMES partner World Athletics will integrate their Sustainable Event Management System (SEMS), ‘Athletics for a Better World’, at the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships in August. The validity of this system and World Athletics’ ability to deliver sustainable events was recently recognised by being awarded the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) 20121 standard, a comprehensive […]