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We talked to WLO member José Vicente Pestana, researcher at the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology of the University of Barcelona (Spain). In one sentence: What does leisure mean to you? Leisure means to me the context and the experience to deeply go into what we actually are and may be. What leisureRead more

We talked to WLO member Fabián Vilas Serna, coordinator of the Entertainment Team of the Permanent Forum of Free Time and Recreation, and director of the Centre for the Promotion and Research on Play, Recreation, Cultural and Community Work Recreándonos (Uruguay). In one sentence: What does leisure mean to you? From our reality and culturalRead more

The University of Sao Paulo has launched the programme Giro Cultural USP, aimed at facilitating access for everyone, within and beyond the university community, to the USP’s cultural and leisure offer. Departments and museums in Cidade Universitaria, the main campus of the University of Sao Paulo and the biggest in Latin America, can be visitedRead more

Building on the relations developed within the WLO Future Leaders programme, the Young People’s Leisure Network (YPLN) was created by participant universities and students to involve youth coordinators and adult supervisors in the organisation of a wide range of activities to promote international exchange in the leisure field. Among the activities organised by the YPLNRead more

A sports delegation from the Chinese universities Zheijang University and Nantong University visited Hungary from the 14th to the 20th June. The visit was hosted and supported by the City of Pápa, in northwest Hungary, and co-organised by the Young People’s Leisure Network (YPLN), together with Pápa Table Tennis Association and Bamafo Foundation. Chinese athletesRead more

We at the WLO Secretariat are happy to launch WLO News, a monthly newsletter that aims to be a window to the wide leisure world. Having dissemination of knowledge and information as one of our raisons d’être, and being aware that we live in a world overloaded with information, we find it crucial to provideRead more