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RiminiWellness is one of the largest events in the European Fitness and Health Industry with more than 250,000 visitors, the largest one of its kind in Southern Europe. In the past, the event focussed mainly on Italy and Italian fitness professionals. But as this is a great event for people from all over Europe (and beyond), RiminiWellness and EuropeActive have teamed up to broaden the horizon, making the event accessible and more interesting for participants from other countries.

Today is March 8: International Women’s Day, a good day to reflect. How are we working towards a balance in female/male representation and equal fitness opportunities in the world?

EREPS Women

Let’s start with some statistics: 41% of the members of our European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) are female. In absolute numbers, Denmark (!) has the most EREPS qualified female fitness professionals, followed by Italy, Sweden, Spain and Germany. The biggest female/male imbalance in the Pilates Qualification-group: 83% is female here.

Saudi Vision 2030

With the SciView project, the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) provides new insight on more effective and efficient actions to tackle challenges related to nutrition and physical activity. The pilot project aims toincrease the evidence-base by providing independent, accurate summaries of recent and relevant information and statistics on determinants of diet and physical activity and their impact on health.

The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) joined forces with the European Parliament to host a special lunch event to present ‘The role of vocational education and training in shaping the future of Europe’. EuropeActive attended the lunch time conference on Wednesday 27^th February in the European Parliament with members of the parliament (MEPs), representatives from further EU institutions and industry stakeholders.

The European Commission is organising the 2019 EU sport Forum in collaboration with the Romanian presidency, on 8^th and 9^th April in Bucharest. The EU Sport Forum is one of the main events for the EU sport stakeholders. During the two-day event, a whole range of topics will be tackled during plenary and breakout sessions.

On Wednesday 20^th February, Parliament's Culture and Education Committee voted to support the next Erasmus+ Programme for 2021-2027 and suggested measures to improve it further. MEPs proposed to triple the budget and ensure there is more co-funding and cooperation with other European programmes.

The Rapporteur suggested to increase the budget for the new Erasmus+ to 45 billion Euros. This amount would allow to develop three big new initiatives: European Universities, Centres of Vocational Excellence and DiscoverEU activities.

It’s our mission to motivate people to embrace a lifelong active and healthy lifestyle at EuropeActive. We aim to achieve this by building and expanding awareness of the health benefits of regular physical activity and the cost and consequences of inactivity, but also by supporting networking in the industry and by facilitating partnerships between the sector, academia, governments and civil society, in order to identify common challenges and opportunities.

B-to-B

On April 3rd, EuropeActive hosts the European Health & Fitness Forum (EHFF), the opening event of FIBO 2019. The full day and evening programme will see 5 key note speakers, 3 case studies and 4 breakout sessions. These are the now-confirmed sessions, speakers and presenters for this premier networking event for the European fitness sector.

!NEW!: 3 Case studies of new club concepts by young entrepreneurs

Within EuropeActive, there is a growing number of Accredited Training Providers: organisations that offer training and courses based on the EuropeActive Standards. These Standards have been agreed as the minimum requirements for an individual to be called an exercise professional, who are then able to apply for registration with the European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) and the National Registers working within its Programme.

The Anti-doping in Football project, supported by UEFA and iNADO, had its kick-off meeting on Thursday 14^th February 2019 in Oslo at the Norwegian Football Association headquarters. Partners discussed the different actions which are going to take place in the next two years in order to have a clearer picture of the doping phenomenon in the European amateur football and to provide local clubs with guidelines on how to combat the issue.