The theme of the MOVE Congress 2025 is #Activating. What are the best strategies to #activate people and communities and promote participation? What are the most inspiring practices of grassroots sports associations, urban planners, municipalities, local communities and other stakeholders? And how can people be best-motivated to engage with their local communities and sport organisations as volunteers?
#Activating People
Regardless of age, gender, or social status, everyone has the potential—and the right—to improve their health and wellbeing through physical activity. The MOVE Congress 2025 will explore innovative methods to inspire and promote physical activity, offering the knowledge and tools to help everyone become more active.
#Activating Participation
For many, group activities are key to enjoying an active lifestyle. However, barriers like social skills, physical limitations, and digital distractions must be overcome. The MOVE Congress 2025 will highlight the best ways to create engagement, encourage volunteering and connect people to local community organisations and most importantly, to one another.
#Activating Communities
When communities get active, the impact can be remarkable! Strong community bonds foster social inclusion and civic engagement. The MOVE Congress 2025 will showcase the best practices for supporting grassroots sport organisations, transforming public space and sporting facilities, and activating local communities.
It’s time for us to step up and share the best ways to get others moving!
Health goes beyond physical health. Recreational physical activity intersects with physical, mental and social health, enhancing people’s wellbeing.
Grassroots sport can foster social inclusion and create welcoming communities for everyone, but it needs to be used intentionally.
An active lifestyle is important throughout life. Recreational physical activity helps older adults maintain mobility, feel connected to the local community, improve independence and quality of life.
Volunteers are the backbone of grassroot sports organisations. Volunteering enriches people’s lives by providing a sense of purpose, new skills and social connections in the local community. How can we motivate and engage volunteers?
Just as we teach reading and writing, we must teach physical and health literacy to equip people to access and maintain an active lifestyle.
Schools and kindergartens play a significant role in creating healthy habits from childhood. Physically active learning increases participation, and overall well-being by embracing movement throughout the school day.
Engaging children and youth in grassroots sport associations empowers them to shape the future of movement, sports, and society. Beyond viewing them as a target group, we need to amplify their voices in all stages of decision-making and programme design.
Local sports associations can be catalysts for climate action through education, mobilisation, and adaptation efforts. They can promote sustainable behaviour by linking physical activity and well-being with environmental sustainability.
Physical inactivity and childhood obesity are deepening crisis, how can we ensure that appropriate political priorities are invested in physical activity and grassroots sport so that everyone has a chance to practice their Human Right to MOVE.
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