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Rodríguez Uribes participates in the presentation of the project “Public Policy of Equality in Sport”

Rodríguez Uribes participates in the presentation of the project “Public Policy of Equality in Sport”

A pioneering initiative promoted by the Institute of Women, the University of Córdoba and FECYT

  • The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) has highlighted the importance of a pioneering project, which seeks to boost the cooperation of eleven ministries and RTVE to advance gender equality in sport.

 

Madrid, September 10, 2025.- The President of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, spoke on Wednesday at the presentation of the project “Public policy of equality in sport”, held at the Ministry of Equality.

This is a pioneering initiative that seeks to promote the cooperation of eleven ministries and the RTVE corporation to guarantee gender equality in sport, promoted by the Institute of Women - an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Equality - together with the University of Córdoba. The project is also funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and directed by Professor David Moscoso Sánchez and Professor María Martín Rodríguez.

The initiative aims to build a framework of inter-ministerial collaboration that will allow, over the next two years, to innovate in 50 public measures and consolidate high-level women's sport as a social reference in the promotion and advancement of women's rights. In line with the Law of Science and with the spirit of the call for innovation of public policies of the FECYT, the project aims to strengthen a culture of strategic alliances between administrations and universities, from which the Network of Administrations for Equality in Sport will emerge.

For the president of the CSD, this is a project of public policy in sport “very important, comprehensive and integral, which calls on eleven ministries, together with universities and experts, to continue advancing in equality”.

Rodríguez Uribes also recalled that equality “is a constitutional mandate” and that institutions have the obligation to “remove obstacles so that equality and freedom are real and effective.” A clear commitment in the Law of Sport approved in 2022, one of “the most advanced in the world” and which has among its pillars sport as a right, equality and the promotion of sport practiced by women.

“We have made a lot of progress in recent years, but there is still a lot to be done,” said the president of the CSD. “We have great female references in sport, the number of women with a federative license has increased greatly, above the million; but there is still a lack of visibility and improved institutional representation, among other things,” he added.

Rodríguez Uribes also said that, “in a world with reactionary temptations, the value of equality must be the fundamental axis to overcome them.” “Together and together we can continue to conquer spaces that are an expression of justice,” he stressed.

The institutional opening was also attended by the Secretary of State for Equality, María Guijarro Ceballos; the Director-General of FECYT, Izaskun Lacunza Aguirrebengoa; and the Vice-Rector for Equality of the University of Córdoba, Sara Pinzi.

Subsequently, a technical panel was held, moderated by María Martín Rodríguez, from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in which Ana Varela, deputy director of programs of the Institute of Women, David Aganzo, president of the AFE, and David Moscoso Sánchez, principal researcher of the project, contributed their visions.

The meeting ended with a professional table moderated by journalist Paloma del Río, in which former futsal player Natalia Orive, sports leader Marisol Casado, Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marín and RTVE journalist Beatriz Aparicio participated. All of them have contributed their experiences and reflections on the challenges of equality in sport.

The project, with a duration of two years, includes three main lines of action: informative meetings to publicize progress and results; departmental meetings with teams of the General Administration of the State and coordination with Autonomous Communities; and workshops with agents of the sports system and the media, promoting co-responsibility in the implementation of equality measures.