C ZERO SPORT CLUBS

On the 24th of April 2024, an event was successfully held as part of the Carbon Neutral Sports Clubs Network – C ZERO SPORT CLUBS initiative. The project aims to encourage small European sports clubs to take concrete actions to support climate protection by adopting an eco-friendly approach to governance and using digital tools. Participants in the event were students from the Department of Wrestling and Judo of the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski". The students performed a practical activity – they cleaned the green areas of the Academy, emphasizing the importance of caring for nature and its conservation. This example shows that caring for the environment should be a priority for all students, lecturers and guests of the NSA.

On March 26th, 2024, in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgarian sports development association, in cooperation with the volleyball club "Ahil" Sofia, held a dissemination event within the initiative "Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB". The event was attended by the young graduates of the volleyball club and their coach Alexander Rashkov, who supported the initiative and planted flowers and trees, highlighting the importance of children taking an active part in this process.

In the period 7-10.02.2024 in the city of Sakarya, Turkey, an international partner meeting under the "Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB" project was held. During the meeting, the "Carbon Footprint Measurement Programme for Sports Organisations", created for the purpose of the project, was discussed, as well as the results obtained and analysed and the future objectives and activities of the project. The consortium consists of 7 partner organisations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Turkey.

On October 17, 2023, the Bulgarian Sports Development Association conducted an online training course for the "Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB" project. During the training course, the "Carbon Footprint Measurement Program for Sports Organizations" created for the project was presented, demonstrated, and discussed. The course also covered the results obtained from the C ZERO SPORTS CLUBS study, future project goals and activities, as well as the roles and responsibilities of partner sports organizations. The consortium consists of seven partner organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, and Turkey.

In the period September 20th and 23rd, 2023, in the city of Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia, an international partnership meeting was held for the "Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB" project. During the meeting, the "Carbon Footprint Measurement Program for Sports Organizations," created for the project's purposes, was presented, demonstrated, and discussed. The results obtained from the C ZERO SPORTS CLUBS study, as well as the future goals and activities of the project, along with the tasks and responsibilities among the partners, were also addressed. The consortium consists of 7 partner organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, and Turkey.

In the period 14-18.05.2023, in Lisbon, Portugal, an international partner meeting under the "Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB" (Network of sports clubs without carbon emissions) project was held. During the meeting, the results obtained from the C ZERO SPORTS CLUBS study were discussed, as well as the goals and activities of the project, tasks and responsibilities between the partners were presented. The consortium consists of 7 partner organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Turkey. Joanna Dochevska and Ivaylo Zdravkov – board members of BSDA – took part in the meeting on behalf of Bulgarian sports development association (BSDA).

On the 14th of February 2023, the first online meeting of the “Carbon Neutral Sports Club Network – C ZERO SPORTS CLUB” project took place. The goals and activities of the project were presented, as well as the tasks and responsibilities between the partners were officially distributed. The consortium consists of 7 partner organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Turkey. Kalinka Gudarovska and Ivaylo Zdravkov – board members of BSDA, took part in the meeting on behalf of Bulgarian sports development association.

The “Carbon Neutral Sports Clubs Network” (C ZERO SPORT CLUBS) project aims to encourage small sports clubs operating in Europe to take action and develop a sustainable understanding for climate action. It is a necessity for sports clubs to encourage an environmentally compatible management approach by including digital tools and to take responsibility environment because it is especially important for local sports clubs to carry their local activities outside of sports and to gain the support of the society by developing environmentalist behaviours. With the Carbon Neutral Sports Clubs Network, we plan to establish, we will have determined a roadmap for environmentalist activities we will plan in the future and we will apply inside of the sport clubs. These activities will be related how to manage a sport club management in an environmentalist approach, which are using recycled materials, using eco-lamps, using more bicycles for their daily works, organizing attractive planting activities etc.