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; to achieve, promote and support the implementation of the ENGSO guidelines for children and youth sport and to represent the interest of young people in sport on the European level. We promote sport and health, participation and volunteering of children an young poeple in sports and international cooperation.

ENGSO Youth is partner at the EU-Youth Health conference. The European Commission and its partners encourage young people to become active partners in promoting their health! Why? Most health behaviours are established and shaped during childhood and youth. Adopting healthy behaviours early in life can prevent chronic disease later in life. As a part of the idea to empower young people to become active partners in actions to improve their health, the Commission has set up a new Initiative on Youth and Health. Read more about the conference and the youth health invitiative ..

ENGSO Youth Conference "Give Youth a real say in sport" took place on 21st-26th of April 2009 in Paris and provided during four working days an opportunity for young leaders in your organisation to receive training and information that will help them in their work as young sports leaders. The participants from all over Europe discussed challenges in youth participation in sport organisations, developed solutions and to created a platform for sharing experiences, good practice and drafting future projects in the field of youth participation in sport.

ARCTOS (Anti-Racism-Tools) is a multimedia training programme which will be used in the training and further education of trainer/coaches and sports instructors in each of the participating countries. The goal of the project is to develop assisting and supporting material for fighting and avoiding racism in the youth sport area. The 10 ARCTOS video clips produced in Austria are online here. You can download them in two qualities.

The ARCTOS-handbook (download here) including a CD-Rom can be ordered at the ENGSO Youth office (engso-youth@dsj.de).