Loughborough University has agreed a landmark international partnership with The Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport (the GO) to drive the elevation of activities connected to women’s sport.
Recognising the urgent need for collective action, the GO was established to advance gender equality and empower women and girls in all their diversity in and through physical education, physical activity, and sport.
Led by colleagues from the University’s School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, the two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) underpinning a strategic collaboration that will expand research and innovation activities related to advancing gender equality in sport globally.
The agreement sees Loughborough become the first UK-based university to enter a partnership with the GO and will build on the already successful research and innovation projects delivered by the University’s Health and Wellbeing of Women in Sport cluster.