"Active and Equal: Women's health in sport across generations" is the first Europe-wide initiative dedicated to advancing women’s health and equality in sport. Co-financed by the European Union and the Council of Europe, the project addresses long-ignored barriers that limit girls' and women's participation. Its goal is to create safe, stigma-free sport environments where women thrive at every stage of life.

The overarching goal of All In Plus is to highlight the benefits of greater gender equality in sport. The key objectives are to ensure that the relative invisibility of women in sport and the ongoing lack of awareness about gender imbalance in sport and related issues are brought clearly to the forefront. 

The project is structured around three pillars:

1. Data collection and analysis in six key areas (leadership, coaching, participation, media/communication, gender-based violence in sport, gender equality policies and programmes);
2. Creation of an online resource centre containing best practice examples;
3. Work with and through the media to ensure greater awareness-raising about gender inequalities in sport. 

This 20-month project aimed at implementing a broad data collection campaign on gender equality in sport based on a set of generally agreed indicators in five strategic fields (leadership, coaching, participation, media / communication and gender-based violence), and producing concrete tools to help public authorities and sport organisations when developing policies and strategic actions aimed at tackling gender inequalities in sport, and adopting a gender mainstreaming approach. 18 countries took part in the data collection process, which started in early 2019.

Outcomes

 Interactive dashboard 

 Analytical report

 16 country-specific leaflets

 Toolkit 

 Online library 

 Action page 

“Balance in sport" was the first European Union and Council of Europe’s joint initiative in the field of gender equality in sport, run in 2016.

Its aim was to identify and test generally agreed gender equality indicators which allow for a uniform approach when collecting relevant data and mapping the situation of women’s participation in the sport world in Europe.

Outcomes

A pilot data collection campaign was run, involving four European countries: Finland, France, Romania and Spain.

Some capacity-building materials and activities were developed:

 5 training factsheets

 A pilot training seminar on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in sport