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The 5th Outdoor Sports Euro’meet

The 5th Outdoor Sports Euro’meet was held in Viana do Costelo, Portugal, from 23rd to 26th september 2019 with 492 delegates from 18 different countries at the event. Three themes were explored throughout the event:

1. #BeActive, be healthy, be outdoors

2. Urban Outdoors

3. Blue Growth

As a result of the Euro’Meet, the delegates worked collaboratively to develop a series of 26 keys recommendations that are detailed in Section X of this report. 14 of the recommendations are for the European Network of Outdoor Sports (ENOS) and will help form the work programme for the ENOS Management Committee who meet 3 times per year.

The management committee members are all volunteers and ENOS has only 1 part time officer (provided by the CREPS Rhone Alpes in France) which means that the capacity to deliver on these is somewhat limited. However, members are fully committed and enthusiastic practitioners in outdoor sports and so will endeavour to prioritise and work through the actions. 12 actions were identified as key recommendations that should be sent to the EU Sport Unit which sits under the Directorate General for Education Youth Sport and Culture (EAC).