Active Workplace Certification - EMoCS | European Meetings of Company Sport

KEY INFO

In Europe +200min people are physically inactive.

The health costs related to sedentary behavior amount to 80billion euro per year in EU28.

Europeans spend large time of their daytime at work, that can be the most suitable setting to engage people in physical activity.

Physical activity at work is good for employees in terms of health, wellbeing and stress reduction, but is good also for company’s productivity, absenteeism and turnover reduction, better reputation, talent attraction, increased motivation and social inclusion.

However, only 13% of active people do it at work and the number is still the same since 2013.

WHY A CERTIFICATION?

To regulate the field of physical activity within European companies to implement sport programs safely and effectively (or in order to guarantee security and effectiveness).
To allow compagnies to have a reliable way to show their audiences they are taking the issue seriously.
To incentivize compagnies that that are not active enough and to reward good practices.
To raise the awareness about the importance and the benefits of company sport.
To help companies in their process of being or becoming inactive.

WHAT DOES "JOINING THE CALL FOR AN ACTIVE WORKPLACE CERTIFICATION" MEAN ?

Signatories agree on the setting up of a taskforce with all the relevant stakeholders to start working on the creation of a unique European certification for Active Workplaces under the following criteria :

CREDIBILITY
PROPORTIONALITY
TRANSPARENCY
SCALABILITY
SUSTANABILITY

The final proposal, criteria and specification will be presented by 31st December 2019.

WHO CAN JOIN THE CALL?

The call can be signes by companies, public authorities, sport federations, associations, health organizations, trade unions, chambers of commerce, insurances, athletes, sport trainers, universities, MEPs, regions, cities, Europeans citizens and, more generally, whoever wants to support the creation of a unique European Active Workplace Certification and to join a network of organizations and stakeholders in favor of company sport.

HOW TO JOIN THE CALL FOR AN ACTIVE WORKPLACE CERTIFICATION ?

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