FSGC also present at UEFA meeting on Sustainability and Social Responsibility

From Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 May, the Sustainability Officer Meeting took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, a gathering aimed at sharing UEFA’s new confederation-wide strategy and projects on Sustainability and Social Responsibility. Representing the FSGC was Sustainability Officer Andrea Zoppis. The meeting, organised by the Director of the UEFA Football and Social Responsibility Department, Michele Uva, brought together twelve European Associations, including San Marino’s, which were able to share their own experiences and initiatives on issues related to social matters and sustainability in its broadest sense: environmental, social and financial. Zoppis and his eleven colleagues (from Andorra, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro and Ukraine) carried out intensive work, first and foremost listening to UEFA’s new strategy, divided into eleven sub-topics and focused on a set of concrete objectives to be achieved by 2030, through the essential vehicle of ever closer collaboration and synergy between the national associations that make up the UEFA family. These objectives include, for example, the complete reduction of carbon dioxide emissions during events organised by UEFA and its member associations, the eradication of discriminatory incidents, and ensuring that football and stadiums are accessible to all persons with disabilities. The social and environmental issues addressed are among the most pressing at global level, which is why football cannot and does not wish to underestimate them, let alone ignore them. Both UEFA and the FSGC, as well as the other associations present, are determined to support this new strategy designed to make football accessible to everyone, without limitations or discrimination, and to reduce the ecological impact of all its events. The FSGC has been highly attentive to these issues for several years now, as also demonstrated by the award received at the recent CAFE Awards ceremony, and last year published its own social responsibility strategy, which will be updated again to be even more closely aligned with UEFA’s new objectives

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