Brussels Bulletin

On 30 May, the Commission adopted its proposal to double funding for Erasmus to €30 billion for the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, making the programme available to 12 million people, three times the number currently able to participate.

MEP Bogdan Wenta hosted past Tuesday, 5 June, 2018 the High-Level Panel "Time to act for Europe against sports manipulations" in the European Parliament in Brussels. The first key note speech was delivered by Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport.

On 6 June, 2018 Member of the European Parliament Martina Dlabajova hosted the event on Social mobility- – how can we increase opportunities through training and education- in the European Parliament. The panel discussion was jointly organized by ACCA, PwC, European Movement International, and the European Youth Forum and brought together representatives from the EU institutions, civil society organisations and the private sector.

EuropeActive participated in the ANIF National Conference at the Rimini Wellness which confirmed to be one of the largest show dedicated to fitness in the world. The 13^th edition hosted 400 companies, 200 conferences, 1500 hours of workout lessons and thousands of visitors. This success is also due to the growth (ca.

The UK fitness industry is continuing to grow year by year in terms of size and value.

At the same time the SIQAF project is coming to an end, EuropeActive’s new project “Blueprint for skills development and employment for Active Leisure” is speeding up with the first Technical Expert Group (TEG) meeting. Blueprint is the long-term strategy to develop new skills for current and future workers, for improving employability of young people, and supporting entrepreneurship and growth across the sector.

On 22^nd and 23^rd of May, EuropeActive attended the two-day seminar on the European Week of Sport (EWoS) in Riga, Latvia.

One of EuropeActive’s projects in its key area “Skills, education and qualifications” is coming to an end. The SIQAF project has been running for 22 months and will be concluded in summer 2018. The task force composed of Active Leisure and qualifications experts and stakeholders came together for their last meeting on Tuesday, 22^th May 2018 in Brussels to discuss the final findings and the report.

Ukactive announced Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to headline the National Summit 2018, taking place 12^th September 2018 at QEll Conference Centre, London. Last year’s summit brought together more than 700 delegates, among them leaders from the health, physical activity, sports and charity sectors. Ukactive will move this year from plotting the role of physical activity as the “golden thread” in solving society’s greatest challenges, to a focus on delivery - as part of organsiation’s work to make 2018/19 a year of action.

On the 2nd of May, the European Commission presented its proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework for the 2021-2027 period (2021-2027 MFF), outlining the structure of the EU budget and the policy priorities of the EU for a period of seven years, together with proposals on own resources financing the EU budget with regard to Brexit.  Regarding the structure of the 2021-2027 MFF, the Commission’s proposals have the ambition to align the budget closer to the political priorities, to simplify the structure of the EU budget (i.e.