‘European Women in Sport’ (WinS) is the new European project in which UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia participates together with universities and institutions from France, Poland, Finland, Belgium and the United Kingdom. This research, which is part of the Erasmus+Sport call co-funded by the European Commission, aims to raise awareness and understanding of the specific problems that women face in their sporting careers, and it focuses its case study on football. To launch the project, the nine partners met in an online meeting. UCAM was represented by its Faculty of Sports. 

After the kick-off, the partners started to plan the actions to be developed during the next three years. Surveys will be disseminated to sport clubs to better understand which implemented practices would be most relevant for the project. In addition, innovative tools will be developed and implemented in order to raise awareness of the specificities of women in sport, help understand how to include them and how best to support them in sport. 

The exchange of good practices between the different countries will lead to the creation of an Observatory on Women in Sport. E-WinS aims to analyse those practices that promote changes to achieve real equality between men and women in the field of football in particular and sport in general.

The Faculty of Sports will be in charge of developing this project through the researchers María José Maciá, Lucía Abenza, Encarnación Ruiz, Raquel Vaquero and Fernanda Borges; Alejandro Leiva, as main researcher of the project and Antonio Sánchez Pato, dean of the faculty.