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 […]
Ways in which sports organisations and event hosts can embed decarbonisation practices in governance and operations was the key topic at the #MakingSportSustainable Conference in Oslo. Hosted at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH) on 29 February 2024, the event served as the mid-term conference for the Erasmus+ funded GAMES project, which is exploring […]
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 […]
Sustainability was a key aspect of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest earlier this year, and was encapsulated by the Green Zone activation that occurred throughout the event. Our voxpop video, featuring athletes at the event, takes you behind the scenes.
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 […]
The World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 is taking a significant step forward in recognising the importance of sustainability in event delivery. Collaborating closely with the event’s organisers, World Athletics – a GAMES project sport partner – has introduced a series of initiatives aimed at minimising the environmental impact of the championship while also contributing positively […]
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 […]