About

With the general objective of raising environmental awareness with the help of sport and physical activity, the Fit4Green project brings together university sports organisations’ aspirations for more sustainable sport events and educational institutions’ need to fight unsustainable consumption practices at campuses.

Lead by the EUSA Institute, a balanced partnership of six organisations, in terms of geographical coverage, transnational and local experience and expertise from sports, education and sustainability, implemented the 18-month project, between June 2024 and November 2025.

Fit4Green engaged young people to actively participate in sustainable measures using sport events by the planning and execution of “green campus sport events” and preceding campaigns and activations in three countries: Austria, Latvia, and Slovenia.

The green campus sport events wre not-for-profit, non-competitive, youth-led sport events conducted in an environmentally responsible manner with the aim of promoting participation in physical activity and sports.

The innovative approach to increase the environmental awareness and sustainability competence of young people through their active involvement in the planning and execution has been summarised in the resources, which are publicly available, and provide ideas for environmentally sustainable solutions for grassroots sport events.

Thanks to people-centred project management methodology focusing on target groups as well as the co-creation and "Learning by Doing" methods in the implementation, the project made an impact on changing behaviours towards healthy- and eco-conscious lifestyles and serve as a good practice example for environmental transformation through sport for campuses, educational institutions, and youth and sport organisations in Europe and beyond.

Fit4Green is Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Fit For Green (Fit4Green) project was coordinated by the EUSA Institute (Slovenia) in partnership with Innovationsmanufaktur (Germany), Holztechnikum Kuchl (Austria), the National Youth Sport Association NYSA (Sweden), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Latvian University Sport Federation (Latvia).