24-26.10.2024 With Europe Direct the European Union at the Venicemarathon
Europe Direct participates in the initiatives organised as part of the Venicemarathon, which this year takes place on Sunday 27 October 2024.
Europe Direct is present at the Venicemarathon, in particular at the initiatives such as the Family Run on 25 October, a non-competitive run over a distance of around 4 km that brings together children, families and all those who want to spend a day of health and fun, and ExpoSport on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 October, a sports and leisure fair and meeting point for marathon runners to collect their bibs at the San Giuliano Park in Mestre Porta Blu (opening times: Friday 25 October 9.00-20.00, Saturday 26 October 9.00-20.00). Europe Direct will be present at stand 4 in the indoor area.
The aim of the initiative is to promote the values that the European Union attributes to Sport as an instrument of social integration and intercultural dialogue, as an opportunity to spread notions of peace, tolerance and mutual understanding. Education and Sport represent two key areas for fostering the harmonious development of young people's personalities, for building models of aggregation and identification, for providing emotional and affective cues combined with symbols of belonging. The strong and proactive message that we want to get across to young people is that of sport to be perceived as an "added and transversal competence" to enhance and harmonise those inherent values such as fair-play, overcoming oneself, team spirit, tolerance, in order to better live everyday life.
The EU intends through sport to promote educational and social values in order to disseminate them among all citizens, as called for in the White Paper on Sport, adopted in 2007 by the European Commission with the aim of giving strategic orientation to the role of sport in Europe, encouraging debate and raising awareness of the needs and peculiarities of the sector.
Since 2008, the Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the Municipality of Venice has participated in sports events dedicated to young people, such as, on this occasion, the initiatives linked to the VeniceMarathon, such as ExpoSport and Family Run.
Some photos of this year's event:
Via Spalti 28, Mestre-Venezia
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e-mail: infoeuropa@comune.venezia.it
Email: info@venicemarathon.it