ALLSTARS project
Good Practice for Active Lifestyles in Local Sports Policies – Governing the integration of marginalised groups in sports
January 2024 - December 2025
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Topic of the conference
From people to policy – How local networks provide sport and physical activities for all
21 November 2025
Brussels, Belgium
Venue: Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brussels
The AllStars project has been dedicated to identifying and analysing successful local sport policies that foster inclusion and active lifestyles. Its aim has been to explore how local initiatives and governance structures can enhance participation in sport.
The final conference will present the project’s findings, share inspiring examples, and bring together policy-makers, sport organisations, and community actors to discuss future opportunities for inclusive sport at the local level.
- Brussels, Belgium
- Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brussels
- Rue Montoyer 47, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Programme
9.30 - 10.00
Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.30
Opening
Alessia de Iulis, Chair of ENGSO Youth
10.30-12.00
Session 1: ALLSTARS team presentation & results
Research team presents results from the research project “ALLSTARS – Good practice for active life styles in local sports policies”
Presentation and results from Germany
Jürgen Mittag
Till Müller-Schoell
Constanze Schulte
German Sport University Cologne
Presentation and results from Spain
Irantzu Ibañez
Ekain Zubizarreta
University of the Basque Country, Leioa
Presentation and results from Norway
Mari Eik
Oskar Solenes
Solveig Straume
Molde University College
Presentation and results from the Netherlands
Nathan Geurink
Remco Hoekman
Mulier Instituut, Utrecht
Presentation and results from Poland
Pawel Zembura
Fundacja Institute for Sport Governance (ISG), Warsaw
12.00-13.15
Lunch break and network
10.00-10.30
Session 2: Interactive
What do networks need in order to be successful in catering to new target groups, fostering sport for all, and collaborating despite different knowledge backgrounds and understandings of sport
14.15-14.30
Coffee break
10.00-10.30
Session 3: Panel discussion
Stanislas Frossard, Head of the Council of Europe’s Sport Divison
Hebe Schaillée, Professor, Sport & Society Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Katarzyna Biniaszczyk, Accredited Assistant to MEP Zdrojewski
Iñaki Iturrioz, Head of the Sports Service of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Spain
15.30-16.00
Wrap up and good bye
About Allstars project
ALLSTARS – Good practice For Active Life Styles in Local Sport Policies is an EU-funded research project that runs from 2024-2026. It is dedicated to describing and understanding inspiring sport projects and programmes that manage well in catering sport for all on a local level.
What kind of networks lead to a more inclusive sports practice?
Which common features can be depicted in otherwise very different projects?
How can municipalities contribute to sport and physical activities for people who are not or do not feel addressed by the regular sport club?
Which role do sport clubs play in this?
ALLSTARS aims at both, giving answers to these questions, as well as enabling people from sport organisations and municipal administration to get hands on information, network opportunities and inspiration the like.
Step 1:
The goal is to identify and analyse successful local sport policies for enhanced sport participation.
Step 2:
By identifying good practices, the aim is to better understand inclusion through sport policies and programs.
Step 3:
With better understanding, we improve participation in sports for the segments of society that are usually underrepresented or excluded.
Data collection
- 5 countries
- 32 good practices
This collection showcases good practices for promoting active lifestyles within local sports policies, with a focus on integrating marginalized groups into sports.
The project team identified and analysed successful local policies and brought them together in a mapping system. By highlighting and understanding these good practices, we gained deeper insights into how sports contribute to the integration and inclusion of marginalized groups.
Partners
ALLSTARS is an ERASMUS plus Sport-project involving the following actors:
Scientific partners:
German Sport University Cologne (Germany)
University of the Basque Country, Leioa (Spain)
Mulier Instituut, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Molde University College (Norway)
Fundacja Institute for Sport Governance Warsaw (Poland)
Partners from the field of practice:
Scientific background and trajectories
Background to the ALLSTARS project are the well-documented deficits of existing sport policies with regards to sports for all and sports participation. The mainstream of existing sports policies within the European model of organised sport is rather successful in activating the affluent, healthy, young, non-migrant, male members of society, but they struggle in catering to the less affluent, physically impaired, older, migrant or non-male members of society to varying degrees. Key to an improvement of this situation is a better understanding of the creation and implementation of policies that aim at usually less organised segments of society.
The ALLSTARS project assumes that the local level, cities and municipalities are the focal point for improvement as they are practically involved with sports for all. It is here that new and innovative approaches can be developed and it is the very locus of participation in a tangible sense.
By combining good practice, institutional change and the analysis of local networks, the project seeks to highlight new and successful ways in process and content of local sport politics and governance.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.