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for the Human Right to MOVE
MOVE CONGRESS 

4–6 OCTOBER 2017
Birmingham | UK
MOVE CONGRESS

MOVE CONGRESS

for the Human Right to Move

The MOVE Congress is one of the few conferences in the world that focuses solely on recreational sport and physical activity. It brings + 500 stakeholders in grassroots sport together to discuss key topics in the sport and physical activity sector.

It’s our Human Right to MOVE, so what’s stopping us?

Humans have a fundamental right to be active, but urban environments are stripping us of active spaces and restricting us with dangers and barriers that make it harder to keep moving. As stakeholders in the physical activity sector, we are the enablers of the human right to MOVE. And the transformation from inactive to active communities starts with us – right now.

 

What our speakers and participants say

  • A lot of people at the Congress are very interested in the This Girl Can campaign. It’s been such an experience. I’m so grateful and thankful for you having me here and I think it’s one of the best things I could have attended for my career.

    SHIRIN MEHMOOD, LEAD OFFICER OF THE THIS GIRL CAN CAMPAIGN, UK

  • I’m from the field of physical activity and public health, so for me I come to the Congress, which is particularly on grassroots sport, I now see the role that grassroots sport plays in promoting physical activity to the whole population.

    DR NIAMH MURPHY, LECTURER AND RESEARCHER AT WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IRELAND

  • You grow old in your ideas if you don’t interact with people. So I’ve already heard some interesting things about campaigns on a local and national level that I wasn’t aware of. They made me stop and think. I’ll share them with my members and take them away.

    KEVIN MAYNE, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AT EUROPEAN CYCLISTS’ FEDERATION, BELGIUM

  • The world has many problems, like obesity and sedentariness, so it’s necessary to make these sorts of events because the world and its cities need solutions.

    OSCAR RUIZ, DISTRICT INSTITUTE OF SPORTS AND RECREATION (IDRD), COLOMBIA

  • The personal relations you get here are really valuable always. The common European/global platform of seeing how sport can actually make changes is a lot stronger now than it was a few years back for sure.

    FREDERIK VON SPERLING, PROJECT LEADER AT DGI UNDERGROUND, DENMARK

  • I attended my first MOVE Congress in 2013 and left in awe of the contacts I made and knowledge shared by all participants. I am looking forward to learning more, collaborating more and expanding opportunities through this global initiative!

    DR. JAYNE GREENBERG, US PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON FITNESS, SPORTS AND NUTRITION

  • The main plus, I would say, of the Congress is the rich and diverse experiences, and the possibility to have side discussions with people and go deeper into questions that we sometimes wouldn’t get the chance to do.

    PROF. JEAN CAMY, EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LYON, FRANCE

  • The MOVE Congress in Rome has sent a strong message to the European Parliament and the Italian Government, which is that “sport for all” is an internationally recognised movement.

    VINCENZO MANCO, PRESIDENT OF UISP (ITALIAN SPORT FOR ALL ASSOCIATION), ITALY

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