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The "All In Plus: Promoting greater gender equality in sport" joint European Union - Council of Europe project will receive the Grand Prix Edouard Eskenazifrom the Association Franaise du Corps Arbitral Multisports (AFCAM).

The AFCAM Executive Committee and its President Patrick Vajda unanimously decided to grant this prize to the "All In Plus" joint project, in recognition of its work highlighting the benefits of gender equality in officiating and more specifically promoting women's refereeing.

The Edouard Eskenazi Grand Prize stands as a testament to innovation, teamwork and dedication within the realm of multisport officiating, recognising initiatives that enable refereeing to progress. By selecting "All In Plus", AFCAM recognises the efforts made to promote gender equality in officiating, in particular through its data collection in more than 20 European countries.

"We are immensely proud to receive the Grand Prix Edouard Eskenazifrom AFCAM," stated Francine Hetherington Raveney, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe's Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS). "This accolade not only recognises our collective endeavours but also reaffirms our unwavering dedication to promoting gender equality in officiating at European level and beyond."

The award ceremony scheduled to take place on 5 April 2024 will serve as a platform to explore the three pillars of the "All In Plus" project. Over 220 representatives from Olympic, national and school federations and referees' associations as well as other stakeholders will be brought together on the occasion of the 39th AFCAM General Assembly.

More information about the "All In Plus" joint project:

"All In Plus: Promoting greater gender equality in sport" (1 March 2023 28 February 2025) is the follow-up project to the "All In: towards gender balance in sport" joint project (1 March 2018 31 October 2019). Its overarching goal is to highlight the benefits of greater gender equality in sport and its key objectives are to ensure that the relative invisibility of women in sport and the ongoing lack of awareness about gender imbalance in sport are brought clearly to the forefront. The joint project is structured around three pillars:

More information about AFCAM:

The French Association of Multisports Referees (AFCAM) was founded in 1985 with the aim of assisting officiators and referees in all sports. In November 2020, AFCAM brought together the refereeing body of more than 80 disciplines/130 structures, i.e. a total of 244,000 judges or referees, 30.32% of whom are women. Its mandate is to:

More information about Edouard Eskenazi: Secretary General of AFCAM for several terms, he died of a serious illness a few weeks after his appointment as the lead judge of the Olympic Games London 2012 and was therefore unable to carry out his dream of being a referee at the Olympics. In 2012, AFCAM decided to create a grand prize that would allow to perpetuate his memory. The crystal blockbearing his effigy is awarded annually to a person or an institution that has done much for the advancement of officiating. Normally, and with two exceptions, this award is never given to a referee and was never handed over to a sitting referee.

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All In Plus joint European Union - Council of Europe project to receive the Grand Prix Edouard Eskenazi by AFCAM - Council of Europe