European Week of Sport 2024 opened on Monday 23 September in Budapest, Hungary, and will run until 30 September. Organised by the European Commission, the event aims to encourage physical activity across Europe under the #BeActive campaign.
The 2024 edition promotes the values of inclusion, well-being and belonging, aligned with the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
According to an infographic published for the occasion by the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat, 47% of Europeans said in 2019 that they did not engage in any physical or sporting activity on a weekly basis.
Furthermore, the sports sector employs 1.55 million people and generates sales worth €60 billion in the European Union.
European Week of Sport is aimed at everyone, regardless of age or physical condition, and features events in some 40 countries: the 27 Member States, 4 countries participating in Erasmus+, the Eastern Partnership countries and the countries of the Western Balkans. By 2023, 11 million participants had gathered at 37,000 events.
Eurostat infographic: https://aeur.eu/f/dje
Events organised this year: https://aeur.eu/f/djd (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)