| dc.description.abstract | The 6th IWG Conference on Women and Sport was held in Helsinki, Finland, June 12–15, 2014 under the main theme ”Lead the Change – Be the Change”. More than 800 participants from nearly 100 countries attended the conference, which was organized under the aegis of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG), hosted by Valo, the Finnish Sports Confederation, and facilitated by the support from the Ministry of Culture and Sport, Finland, the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa, and numerous national sport organisations and other stakeholders in Finland. Ms. Tarja Halonen, Former President of the Republic of Finland, served as the conference Patron. | en_US |
