European Sports Week 2025

European Sports Week (SED), a European Commission initiative, to combat sedentarism, will again be held simultaneously in all EU Member States and others in the rest of the continent that have joined since 2015.

At European level, the 2022 edition featured a particularly large number of events, with more than thirteen million participants in forty countries and regions. In 2023, 36,000 events were held with the participation of almost 11 million people; and, in 2024, the record number of events has been broken again, 50,000 and 15 million participants in the total of 39 countries participating in this last edition.

The objective is to involve all social groups to carry out one or more actions that promote physical activity and good eating habits among the population.

As every year, our goal was to exceed the figures of the previous year and we have to say that, after two editions of slow comeback after the restrictions of participation due to the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, in 2024 we have exceeded all the records of participation that had been obtained in 2019, with 1239 registered activities and more than 600,000 participants.

In the 2025 edition, we continue to maintain the same objective of overcoming the records of participation and activities promoted by sports-related entities in the fight against the scourge of obesity resulting from growing sedentary lifestyle and poor consumption habits, in favour of a healthy life based on physical exercise and adequate food, but also highlighting the positive values that sport can promote in relation to sustainability and the inclusion of vulnerable population groups.

To do this, we would like to have one more year with the agents most involved in sports promotion:

AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES.

MUNICIPALITIES.

EDUCATIONAL CENTERS.

SPORTS CENTERS.

UNIVERSITIES.

WORK CENTERS.

THE MEDIA.

INFLUENCERS

SPORTS FEDERATIONS

Activity Registration Platform
Activity Finder

Links to the graphic resources European Sports Week 2025:

 

 

1. PROPOSAL FOR ACTION TO THE SPORTS MOVEMENT

Registration and realization of participatory sports events. With the aim of monitoring the impact of the SED, as requested by the EU, the CSD has a registration platform where sports events that take place within the framework of the SED can be registered. The registration of an event allows your organizer to receive the official seal #BEACTIVE, the new CSD logo that identifies that action as an SED activity and a personalized diploma[1] of participation issued by the CSD.

[1] Once the registration is completed, after uploading a representative photo of the event, the system automatically issues a certificate of participation in which the registration data appears next to the photo sent. Although the photo will necessarily have to be uploaded after the event, we recommend that the registration of the activity be done in advance so that it can have prior dissemination.

PROPOSALS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SED, BY SECTOR, ARE OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT

2. PROPOSAL FOR ACTION TO THE MUNICIPALITIES

Promoting at the local level participation in the SED in all the relevant municipal areas (Educational Centres and Universities, Work Centres, Sports Centres…), carrying out sports promotion activities, disseminating the participation proposals suggested in the previous point and others that each municipality can devise to achieve the highest possible levels of participation.

AWARD GALA FOR THE CSD-BEACTIVE AWARDS.

The awards will be presented at a Recognition Gala for participation in the SED, which will be attended by the winners, senior CSD authorities, influencers, SED ambassadors and representatives of the collaborating entities whose participation has been key to the successful development of this initiative. This gala will take place at the CSD headquarters in mid-November. Previously there will be a guided visit to the facilities of the CAR of Madrid with the attendees at the Gala who wish it.

Our values: Commitment, respect, inspiration, integrity, effort and exemplarity. 

PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SED FOR EDUCATIONAL CENTERS

The proposal that we launch to the Educational Centers is that they participate in the SED-24:

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    1. Organizing competitions that begin that week and continue for the rest of the course.
    2. Organizing outdoor sports content excursions throughout the week that involve all students.
    3. Addressing the topic of healthy consumption habits and active life, in a transversal way, in all or several of its subjects
    4. Offering a piece of fruit and suppressing industrial pastry to their students every day of that week (and if possible until the end of the year).
    5. Developing some physical activity that involves a large number of students.
    6. In this link you have specific information to develop activities on the European School Sports Day which is always celebrated on the Friday of the European Sports Week of each edition.

Our goal is that each Educational Center uploads to the SED platform at least one of the actions described, indicating their participation.

PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SED FOR UNIVERSITIES

Universities are proposed to participate with the following alternatives:

  1. Organizing sports events, championships, races, seminars.
  2. Offering a piece of fruit and suppressing industrial pastry to their students every day of that week.
  3. Making appointment of Doctor Honoris Causa to a designated athlete.
  4. Opening their sports facilities to all students and offering them free demonstration classes.
  5. Promoting the SED by placing a BEACTIVE banner in a visible place.
  6. Creating new spaces for sports practice, changing rooms with showers…

Our goal is that each university uploads to the platform at least one action of those described, leaving a record of their participation.

PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SED FOR SPORTS CENTERS

The managers of the Sports Centers are proposed to participate with the following alternatives:

a) Taking their activity to the street or showing what they do in their clubs.

b) Organizing Open House Days.

c) Making significant discounts during that week or that month, or free trial sessions.

d) Making it visible that it is attached to the SED with the logo #BEACTIVE that is available on the CSD website “certifying” itself as a health promoting establishment.

e) They can contact their town hall to see if it will participate by promoting activities to celebrate European Sports Week in which their centre can collaborate.

Our goal is that each Sports Center uploads to the SED platform at least one of the actions described, indicating their participation.

PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SED FOR THE FEDERATIONS

The proposal that we launch to the Sports Federations is that they participate in the SED-24:

  1. Giving diffusion of the SED-24 in its media and networks.
  2. Providing support to municipalities that request it to promote their sport during the SED-24.

Our goal is that each Federation uploads to the SED platform at least one of the actions described, indicating their participation.

PROPOSAL OF PARTICIPATION IN THE SED FOR THE WORK CENTERS

The proposal that we launch to companies is that they celebrate the SED-24, from 23 to 30 September, organizing special events within the framework of European Sports Week by uploading them to the registration platform of events of the CSD. In this platform, along with their activity registration data, companies can put a link to their website.

They are suggested to participate with the following alternatives:

a) Showing what they do in their Work Centers.

b) Making it visible that it is attached to the SED with the #BEACTIVE logo that is available on the CSD website “certifying” itself as a health promoting establishment.

(c) To perform a special action:

- Competition of workers who are following the activity programme,

- Clinic with an expert in training/food/health,

- Leaving the environment to perform a healthy activity,

- Hold a collective master class in downtown facilities or an open space (parking…)

Our goal is that each Work Center uploads to the SED platform at least one of the actions described, indicating their participation.

PROPOSAL OF PARTICIPATION IN THE THIRST FOR THE INFLUENCERS OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND HEALTH

The importance of influencers has been increasing during the pandemic and has been one of the keys to keeping the population active, which has been a fundamental physical and mental benefit for many of us. From the CSD, in the face of this situation of new normality, we want to recognize their work and encourage them to continue promoting physical activity and sport through their channels.

We want to encourage you to make a challenge on your social networks with #BEACTIVE, specially designed for European Sports Week, from 23 to 30 September. Those who get the most “likes” on 1 October will receive the CSD_BEACTIVE prize, which will be presented by the CSD President at the Awards Gala, at the end of November, where they will be able to meet other winners, the CSD authorities, the SED-24 ambassadors and they will be able to enjoy a guided visit to the CAR facilities in Madrid. Above all, however, they will have contributed to the promotion of healthy physical activity in this European initiative.

This Gala will be attended by the media.

To participate you must send your challenge proposal to infosed@csd.gob.es with the following content:

  • Name of author/influencer.
  • Social network used.
  • Screenshot with the number of likes as of October 1st.
  • Link to the video for viewing and possible editing for the CSD-BEACTIVE Awards Gala.

Participation in this contest will involve the cession of the use of the winning videos by the CSD to promote the SED-24.

THIRST AMBASSADORS 2024

Juana Camilion

(Mar del Plata, March 22, 1999) Spanish athlete of Argentine origin who competes in basketball in the modality of 3×3

 

Camilión arrived in the 23/24 season to the Moviestar Estudiantes team from the American NCAA, specifically from the Iona Gaels, having become one of its historical players. Prior to his time in the United States, he had played in Women’s League 2 with Picken Claret. She debuted with Movistar Estudiantes in the Endesa Women’s League and Eurocup Women, averaging 5.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 5.6 points in the national league; and 6.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 7.4 points in her first stint in Europe.

He participated in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, obtaining a silver medal in basketball in the 3x3 modality.

Olympic Games          
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:    
2024 Paris (France) SILVER 3x3 3x3    
           

Championship of Europe

Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2023 Vienna SILVER 3x3 3x3

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Enmanuel Reyes Pla

(Havana, December 14, 1992) is a Spanish sportsman of Cuban origin who competes in boxing.

 

The first Olympic boxing medal Paris 2024 came from the hand of Enmanuel Reyes Pla, with a bronze when he lost in the semifinals fight against Loren Alfonso Domínguez (with three dieces in front of two of the Spanish). The boxer of Cuban origin had already secured the metal and becomes the first Spaniard to get a medal for Spain within the boxing, after 24 years.

 

International Awards

Olympic Games      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2024 Paris (France) BRONZE 92 kg
World Championship      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2021 Belgrade (Serbia) BRONZE 92 kg
European Games      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2023 Nowy Targ (Poland) BRONZE 92 kg
European Championship      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2022 Yerevan (Armenia) SILVER 92 kg

 

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Joan Antoni Moreno

(Pollensa, 4 April 2000) Spanish sportsman competing in canoeing in the modality of calm waters

International Awards

Olympic Games      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2024 Paris (France) BRONZE C2 500 m

 

 

World Championship

     
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2022 Halifax (Canada) GOLD C4 500 m

2023

2023

Duisburg (Germany)

Duisburg (Germany)

GOLD

SILVER

C4 500 m

C1 200 m

European Championship      
Year of the year Place of Residence Medal Category:
2021 Poznań (Poland) GOLD C1 200 m
2022 2022 Munich (Germany) SILVER C2 500 m

         

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2024:

In the tenth edition of the European Sports Week (SED), held as every year from 23 to 30 September, we have registered 1032 activities, far exceeding the record reached in 2019, which was 798.

This has been achieved thanks to the close collaboration with our partners, the Olympic athletes who participated in our promotional video of the SED-2024 and having established special synergies with the organizers of the European School Sports Day and those of the European Mobility Week

Vigo hosted the main event of the SED-2024 with a long day of activities that began at 17:00 and culminated with a #BEACTIVE NIGHT at 23:00.All the Autonomous Communities plus the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla participated with activities, which is a milestone of participation that we hope will be maintained in future editions.

 

 

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2023:

Within the framework of the activities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia hosted on September 23 the main events of the European Sports Week of 2023. In this context, the meeting of the European Union Directors-General of Sports and the Conference on Safe Environments in Sport were also held.

 

 

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2022:

Finally, after years of restrictions caused by the pandemic, in 2022 we have been able to organise a European Sports Week without restrictions in terms of special preventive hygiene measures for infections.

In this eighth edition, held as every year from 23 to 30 September, we have registered 773 activities, just 25 of the record reached in 2019, which was 798. We have been supported by entities such as the COE, the COE, the Sanitas Foundation or the ONCE along with other usual partners such as the Active Spain Foundation, the Young Sport Foundation or the Ploggin Tour circuit. All of them have promoted activities within this week promoting healthy living through physical activity, sport and healthy eating habits.

Melilla hosted the main event of the SED-2022 with a long day of activities that culminated with a #BEACTIVE NIGHT. To this event were added other municipalities of Andalusia and the Region of Murcia that received the support of the CSD in the form of dissemination material and monitors for the development of their master classes with a significant influx of public. In total, 9 #BEACTIVE EVENTS were organized with the direct support of the CSD. 13 of the 17 Autonomous Communities that make up our country participated. This means a reduction in participation for autonomies that we will face for the next edition.

 

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2021:

In this seventh edition of the European Sports Week it was decided not to promote numerous mass events, as was our custom in pre-pandemic times, due to the validity of the risk of contagion in Spain despite the massive vaccination that has been carried out in our country. Even so, we have been able to record a significant number of activities (191) that have been uploaded from all over the national geography to our platform.


We wanted to remain cautious and therefore we have organized a single great event, the BEACTIVE NIGHT of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which was a great success in attendance, in which visitors were able to practice very different sports modalities in a festive atmosphere. This video illustrates what has been done with the invaluable collaboration of the City of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

We have also challenged the Municipalities of Spain to send us a video of around 1’30” that reflected the sports offer of their town or city classified in four different categories depending on their population and we have received 63 high-quality proposals of which we leave a sample below. We hope that these images will motivate us to stay active by taking advantage of the resources that the municipalities put at our disposal.

 

 

St. Stephen of Gormaz:

 

The Casar:

 

Teruel:

 

 

Pamplona:

 

 

Cartagena:

 

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2020:

The appearance of COVID-19 meant the restriction of sports activity in Spain, especially at the end of September, after the summer, in which the number of infections and deaths was increasing daily. This meant the cancellation of all the participatory events that could have been planned, including the one we wanted to have held in Gijón, which had to be transformed in a matter of days into a closed-door filming of the master class that we had planned to have done in a central area and close to the beach of San Lorenzo.

Instead we proposed the participation in a photo and video course to which some high-quality works were presented but, as happened with the other face-to-face events, the awards ceremony also had to be suspended, the trophies being sent to their respective recipients by post.

We have our hopes in mass vaccination that will allow us to celebrate the SED again as usual, with great participation from the whole sports sector.

 

 

EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2019:

The fifth edition of the European Sports Week was held from 23 to 30 September 2019. In our country it was inaugurated on September 21 at the High Performance Center of Madrid with an Open Day in which more than a thousand people participated. From September 23 to 27, promotional events were held with sports activities in municipalities, schools, universities, hostiptales, sports clubs, work centers, museums, etc. The Week closed with the celebration of twelve #BEACTIVE NIGHTS in different Spaniards highlighting the one in Ciudad Real the night of September 28th to 29th.It should be noted that this edition has registered more than double the activities uploaded to the platform of the European Sports Week of those that were uploaded in the previous edition, showing the growing commitment of sports entities with this initiative. In this video you can find out what the BeActive Night in Ciudad Real was like.

We doubled the number of activities carried out from 23 to 30 September uploaded to the platform compared to the previous year: from the 336 activities registered in 2018, we went to a total of 682 activities in 2019.According to data from the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Spain has been the country with the greatest impact on social networks of the 42 participating countries with 23%, followed by the United Kingdom with 17.4%.

12 #BEACTIVE events were organized with the direct support of the CSD throughout the Spanish territory.More than 340,000 participants were counted.16 of the 17 Autonomous Communities that make up our country participated.

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  • EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2018:

    The fourth edition of the European Sports Week was held from 23 to 30 September 2018 and the official opening at European level took place in Vienna, Austria. At the national level it was inaugurated on September 23 in the Esplanade of the King of Madrid Río. Subsequently, the Sport Village was moved to Valencia, where an evening #beactive (or “beactive night”) was held the night between 29 and 30. In this edition, from 24 to 28 the #beactive caravan was launched which, leaving Madrid and having as final destination Valencia, from 24 to 28 September stopped in the towns of Tarancón, Cuenca, Sarrión (Teruel), Tortosa and Castellón.

     

     

     

  • EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2017:

    The third edition of the European Sports Week was held from 23 to 30 September 2017 and the official opening at European level took place in Tartu, Estonia. At the national level, the CSD once again held an event in the Plaza de Colón with various sports demonstrations.

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  • EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2016:

    In 2016, the second edition of the European Sports Week was held with the main objective of promoting participation in sport and physical activity throughout Europe. At the national level, the CSD held another event in the Plaza de Colón with various sports demonstrations.

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  • EUROPEAN SPORTS WEEK 2015:

    The first European Sports Week, co-funded through the European Commission’s Erasmus + Programmes, was held from 7 to 13 September 2015. The Plaza de Colón in Madrid hosted different sports demonstrations.