In the group stage, the Slovenian team will be playing in Celje in a group that includes the teams from Denmark, Sweden and Serbia. The first three teams in the group go on to the next stage of the competition, where they will play three further matches of the group stage in Ljubljana’s Stožice stadium.

The sustainability and the empowerment of women

The championship organising committee is led by Franjo Bobinac, its honorary president who is also the president of the Slovenian Handball Federation (SHF), and Bor Rozman, a member of the RZS presidency. For the first time at such a large sporting event, the championship’s organising committee includes a professional head of sustainable development, Gašper Pavli, along with his team. This means the main focus is on the protection of natural resources and the climate, the well-being of the local community and broader society by the inclusion of local stakeholders, and care for the health and safety of championship spectators and participants. The team plans to introduce elements of sustainable development in 12 domains that are important in the organisation and implementation of a sporting event. There are 40 defined targets, which are to be achieved with the help of 100 planned activities. 

Two of the main championship sponsors are SKB banka, a subsidiary of OTP Bank, and the Slovenian Tourist Board (STO). The executive director of SKB banka is Anita Stojčevska, while the director of the STO is Maja Pak. Both women are also two of the seventeen ambassadors of the European Championship, who all hold important positions in the business world or public life. Their role is to encourage the public to support the empowerment of women in sport and society as a whole. The aim of the activities is to increase the number of active women who will choose to assume positions of responsibility in a business environment, and more generally in public life.

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