International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women

IAPESGW is joining MINEPS 7 BAKU 2023 | UNESCO Global Sports Conference , where Ministers and Senior Officials responsible for Physical Education and Sport define with stakeholders the future of the sport-for-development ecosytem, culmulating with the launch of the Fit for Life Alliance. IAPESGW contributes as official observer.

Supporting women and girls was a key principle in MINEPS VII recommendations. IAPESGW intensified its collaborations with other global PE organizations like FIEPS, AIESEP, ISCPES, with the other global women sport organizations WSI, IWG Women & Sport, GO and with ministries from different nations.

Join our IAPESGW webinar on ‘Women, Physical Education and Sport in Ibero-America” and meet the editors of the book! Please register via QR-code or the link: http://bit.ly/IAPESGWJune02

Join our IAPESGW webinar on the situation of “Women and Sport in Asia” and meet the editors of the Routledge book Rosa Lopez de D’Amico (Venezuela), Maria Luisa M. Guinto (Philippines) and Maryam Kouskie Jahromi (Iran).


IAPESGW joined an interesting day together with WSI (WomenSportInternational), IWG (International Working Group on Women and Sport), TAFISA (The Association For International Sport for All) as guests at the Headoffice of WSF (WomensSportFoundation) in New York. Thanks to these great women for an exiting exchange of ideas and cooperation! (From left: Carole Oglesby, Lisa O’Keefe, Rosa Diketmüller, Game Mothibi, Diane Huffman, Sarah Axelson and Morgan Powell)

IAPESGW is celebrating the International Women’s Day 2023 at the United Nations NGO CSW67 Forum (Consensus Status of Women). Together with other global women and sport associations (WSI, IWG, WSF) and TAFISA and ACSM we will discuss in a Panel “Enhancing research, education and advocacy in women’s sport through technology“. Rosa is focusing in her presentation also on the setting of Physical Education.
Register for the session and join on-site or online (NGO CSW67)
The Global Observatory for Gender Equality and Sport organizes its first International Conference on Inclusive Gender Equality on Feb 1st. IAPESGW was invited to take part and presented in Panel 1: Women Sports: State of the Field the long history of inclusive approaches in IAPESGW since 1949. Rosa Diketmüller und Marianne Meier also contributed to the Strategic Meeting the day before to develop a strategy plan together with other relevant organizations and experts to bring gender equity in sports and Physical Education globally forward.
by Mariam Koushkie Jahromi (Iran)
Here you can find the recording of the presentation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-xHjVaJs6F66owq3sNjG5-_gVrHXheb/view?usp=share_link
Join our IAPESGW Webinar on December 14, 2 PM CET (Vienna, Austria) with our speakers Beatriz Ferreira (Brazil), Darlene Kluka (USA), Helena Altmann (Brazil) and Usha Sujit Nair (India).


Join our first IAPESGW online Members’ Meeting on Thursday Nov 24, 1 pm. We’ll come together to meet, to present first results of the membership survey & to exchange ideas and needs of our members as a basis for next steps for IAPESGW. Please join and register for the meeting https://univienna.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Alceyvpj4iHdHFBQFDpGyWfakbOPKyy9dA or join the members’ meeting directly via Zoom link ( Meeting-ID: 648 6578 5875 Passcode: 860864 )