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Empowering Women Athletes: Tackling Feminine Abuse, Violence and Discrimination in EU Sports Clubs or simply EWA is an ErasmusPlus co-funded initiative which is developed by sports federations, research centres and universities, local public administrations, transnational non-profit associations and it aims to combat violence, abuse, harassment, and discrimination against women in sports.



Sport is a means of self-expression and fulfilment, as well as a force for citizenship and solidarity, while stressing how violence against women, stereotyping, differences in payment and barriers to women’s involvement in management are still problems tackling the sport sector. Those barriers act on multiple levels (verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, cultural, organisational, economic, mediatic) and are collectively perceived as a pervasive chauvinist culture that permeates the career of any female athlete.


The main objective of the EWA is to develop a community of female athletes, professionals, sport managers and policy makers in Europe who actively prevent and counter violence, abuse, harassment, and discrimination against female athletes in key sports environments, providing them with knowledge, education, and practical tools specifically designed by the project. EWA was designed on the basis of a Multi-layered Model approach to the given issue, for which a stratified set of stakeholders — individuals but also organisations — contribute to the determination and maintenance of a well radicated problem.


“EWA is not just a project, She is an ideal. She is every girl and every woman who loves her sport, who wants to feel safe in the changing rooms of her club, respected as a human being, acknowledged as an athlete, supported by her team of professionals. EWA is the female athlete who struggles every single day to break records, win games, have fun.”


Find out more at project webpage www.ewa-project.eu