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We’re happy to announce to you that the 11th MOVE Congress will be held in Madrid from 15-17 November 2023! Registration will open soon, so we invite you to save the date and watch this space for more news. We hope to see you for an active three days of networking!
The MOVE Congress 2023 is supported by the European Union through projects including Icehearts Europe, Placemaking and Sport, European Grassroots Esports, IRTS Ukraine and an EU4Health programme operating grant. The International Sport and Culture Association is the lead organiser of the conference together with our Spanish partners Fútbol Más and Deporte para la Educación y la Salud (DES).
What’s the MOVE Congress? Find out more and here’s a video recap of the 2021 event:

We're happy to announce to you that the 11th MOVE Congress will be held in Madrid from 15-17 November 2023! Registration will open soon, so we invite you to save the date and watch this space for more news. We hope to see you for an active three days of networking! The MOVE Congress 2023 is supported by the European Union through projects including Icehearts Europe, Placemaking and Sport, European Grassroots Esports, IRTS Ukraine and an EU4Health programme operating grant. The

Reconnect. Rebuild. Restart. After two years of meeting via computer and mobile screens across countries and continents, 250 physical activity promoters from 40 countries reconnected in person from 17-19 November 2021 at the MOVE Congress in Brussels. The opening of the MOVE Congress at Tour & Taxis’ Maison de la Poste venue kicked off two days of active networking and expert-led presentations, panels and workshops. Here are a few of the many highlights. NowWeJuggle! Will Borrell from Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles led

For the MOVE Congress 2021, we at ISCA prioritised delivering a physical event, because we believe in the power of the physical meeting between people, and we wanted to enable our members and partners to come together to Reconnect, Rebuild and Restart. Some speakers were unable to be there with us in person, so we used our experience in delivering hybrid and online events to bring their expertise to the congress nonetheless. 300 participants, including 60 speakers plus performers, joined

Migration expert Adnan Abdul Ghani from Save the Children in Sweden started the MOVE Congress 2021 workshop ‘Reconnect: Collaborate by networking and including refugees’ by sharing his story of starting a movement as an asylum seeker to highlight the skills asylum seekers and refugees can contribute to their new communities. His keynote, followed by a vignette of the refugee’s experience from Girl Power founder Khalida Popal, set the scene for a workshop led entirely by former refugees and migrants who

The MOVE Congress 2021 plenary session on 18 November featured a discussion panel of experts voicing the points of view of people who are typically – and often systemically – excluded from sport and physical activity. We put inclusion in the “sportlight” and asked why sport has failed to provide safe and inclusive spaces for girls and women, refugees and migrants, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ participants in the past and how we can take things that we’ve learned during

A little provocative nudge in a different direction is something we need right now – to “build back better”, to create a “new normal”. And our MOVE Congress 2021 keynote speakers on 18 November, Lars AP and Magid Magid are experts in disruption when it comes to nudging individuals and communities towards social change. “Part of the theme here is Restart – but how?” Lars AP, the founder of the F***ing Friendly movement in Denmark challenged the audience of community sport

“Let us make a promise not to denigrate but inspire. Rather than bemoan the present, paint a picture of what could be. And instead of inciting hatred and instilling fear, rise above the chorus of our age and dare to sing a different song.” Magid Magid is a Somali-British activist and author, founder of the Union of Justice, former Lord Mayor of Sheffield and former Member of the European Parliament who broke into leadership roles in British and European politics and

After two years of meeting via computer and mobile screens across countries and continents, 300 physical activity promoters from 40 countries reconnected in person on 17 November at the MOVE Congress 2021 in Brussels. The opening of the MOVE Congress at Tour & Taxis kicked off two days of active networking and expert-led presentations, panels and workshops, with the first full-day programme starting on 18 November at 9:00 CET. The plenary session will be live streamed here on ISCA’s Facebook

The official opening of the MOVE Congress on 17 November 2021 concluded with an ISCA Awards ceremony, with this year’s awards recognising best practices and role models in the Integration of Refugees Through Sport (IRTS). All 12 shortlisted nominees gathered for the ceremony and the winners were revealed by four of the jury members who had been part of making the final selection in three categories. The winner of the fourth category, the IRTS Role Model, was selected through a

Press release: The MOVE Congress 2021 starts this Wednesday, 17 November at 7pm CET at Tour & Taxis in Brussels! The world stopped moving during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now is the time to reconnect and reignite the sectors that help us all to be more physically active and healthy. The MOVE Congress is a dynamic global event for stakeholders in grassroots sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing, where participants walk the walk and get a huge dose of inspiration from