ENGSO Youth is the youth organisation within ENGSO (European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation). It has the aim to represent the interest of people under the age of 35 dealing with sport in Europe and to achieve, promote and support the implementation of the ENGSO guidelines for children and youth sport. We promote sport, health and participation of children and young people as well as volunteering and international cooperation in the sport sector.

ENGSO Youth welcomes the sports provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the supporting, coordinating and supplementing measures that are now enabled. When implementing these provisions, ENGSO Youth encourages the decision-makers to assume a broad understanding of sport. Sport should not only be seen as elite sport, and youth sport should not only be understood as aiming to the top. In our view, the Treaty gives good support to this broad defi nition of sport with its reference to the social and educational function of sport.