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Report on the SHARE 2.0 Conference

Alberto Robles-Garcia15 October 2025

Belgium Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium
11 th September 2025 – Brussels


The conference was held with approximately 70 delegates from across the Sports Sector. Initial welcomes and introductions were provided by staff from the commission Sport Unit. Each of the Share 2.0 Communities of Practice were presented by members of each of the steering groups as follows:

  1. EU Funding – Vassos Koutsioundas (Cyprus Sport Organisation)
  2. Health – Andreu Raya Demidoff (Sport for Education and Health)
  3. Innovation – Grzegorz Botwina (Institute of Sport Governance)
  4. Green Sport – Mike McClure (European Network of Outdoor Sports)

What became clear during the presentations and information was that there was a lot of synergy between each of these COP topics and the opportunities that are provided by the outdoors and how sustainability is a recurring and mainstream theme.

The report on the Green Sport was effectively the launch of the Green Sport Manifesto.

“It was a real privilege to be able to launch this at the event on behalf of ENOS and the Green Sports COP” (Mike McClure)


The Manifesto is designed to be signed up to by both the public authorities that have responsibility for sports development and policy, but also the sports sector from the grass roots sports club right up to European Federations. For either sector there is a requirement to sign up to 5 commitments that are relevant to that sector. For the sports sector these 5 commitments are as follows:

  1. Put a sustainability governance structure in place;
  2. Produce a sustainability strategy covering European Green Deal topics;
  3. Measure and report sustainability progress yearly, across operations and events;
  4. Support green sport cooperation and knowledge-sharing;
  5. Develop, use and share green sport tools.

For each commitment there is the opportunity to highlight if it is :

a. Implemented
b. In Progress
c. Planned

More information

Once it is signed you will receive communication tools:

  • Green Sport Manifesto – An interactive one-page document outlining the commitments and space to put your organisation’s details in.
  • Primary and Secondary Messages – Adaptable text to help you communicate your commitment.
  • Green Sport Manifesto Logo – Official branding assets.
  • Social Media Profile Picture Template  – For use on your organisation’s social channels.
  • Signatory Badge – To showcase your commitment to sustainability.

We would encourage all ENOS members to review the information and sign up to the manifesto.

Following the morning sessions there were breakout sessions were members form each COP and others could meet to discuss what had worked well through Share 2.0 and what should be further developed.

The key messages from these workshops for the Green Sport COP that ENOS was represented on was as follows:

1. Common Framework for ethical sponsorship

  • Define what we mean by ethical – do we just include environmental or also the social dimension (e.g. child labour etc.)
  • Use experts and existing reports and data to create a set of criteria and publish checklists to make it easy and accessible for sports organisations to verify how ethical a potential sponsor might be
  • Should be delivered through collaboration via the COP

2. Mainstreaming green sport

  • For some sports – this is already high on the agenda – especially the outdoor sector but for others especially indoor sports it may not be as high
  • Strong communication required on the advantages of being sustainable:
    • Cheaper energy costs
    • Creating sponsorship opportunities
    • Greater public acceptance to assist promotion (example from golf and water usage)

3. Funding of sustainability in sport

  • We need to communicate effectively on the benefits of funding sustainable sports facilities. There are needs to have more funding allocated to support mobility and events
  • Explore opportunities for co-financing between governments and owners of facilities
  • Build on and even update the work that the initial share initiative had done on funding.
  • Ensure there are strong communication messages on how to access funding.

4. Develop and increase the use of tools and templates

  • There are tools available and we need a library or hub for where these can be easily accessed.
  • However there also needs to be training in how to use them and while this could be done through capacity building webinars but also recorded and available within the hub so it has long term accessibility.
  • The development of templates to support grass roots organisation sign up to the manifesto (such as governance Terms of reference or a draft sustainability strategy) could be developed at various levels.
  • Ensure that resources are available in national languages as this can be a barrier to access.