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Active Esports Arena: use your body as a controller
Co-initiated by Eindhoven Football Club PSV, Active Esports Arena combines gaming software with a harness that transforms your body into a controller. The idea creates a unique gaming experience with many challenges, also physical ones.
The arena is a place that gives you access to a virtual gaming world where you are part of the game. It combines the interests of both the tech industry as well as the sport sector. The Active Esports Arena in is one of the first of its kind and PSV the world’s first major professional football club that is actively involved in this type of e-sport. The group wants to take the gamer out of their desk chair and onto the virtual gaming floor.
Exodus Burned is the first game available to play and contains elements of sport and strategic games with many challenges. The combination of intelligent software and a simple high-tech harness lets players use their whole body to control the game. It can be played recreationally or competitively, either as a team or individually.
Active Esports Arena and PSV want to organise tournaments and competitions between major professional football teams in the near future.
Cruyff Courts: ensuring inclusiveness and equality
The Cruyff Foundation initiates and supports projects that stimulate sports and games and, above all, cooperates with local communities. The organisation has set up Cruyff Courts all over the world that offer freely accessible and safe places for children to play.
Simply kicking a ball around on the street has often become a thing of the past. Neighbourhoods are built up, streets are crowded with cars, and traffic is busy, forcing children to stay indoors. They need a safe place that encourages them to play outside.
Cruyff Courts offer a safe place to get together and where children get to know the importance of togetherness, inclusiveness and equality. It is a place to make friends and identify ones talents, all valuable experiences that they carry with them as they develop physically and mentally, and as they move through society
Alongside the Cruyff Courts in the community, the foundation set up Special Cruyff Courts at institutions for children with disabilities. These courts are adapted to the children's needs.
The Cruyff Courts and Special Cruyff Courts enable children to practise all kinds of sport and take part in activities that are supported by Cruyff Foundation Coaches. At the same time, the Heroes of the Cruyff Courts project ensure that young people play an active role in organising these activities.
The Cruyff Foundation has created 262 Cruyff Courts in 21 countries since its founding in 1997. In 2019, the organisation appointed 32 Cruyff Foundation Coaches worldwide. The foundation supported 46 different sport projects for disabled children in 2019 and 21,513 children visit a Cruyff Court weekly.
Signify: shine the light
Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Based in the Dutch City of Light – Eindhoven - their energy efficient lighting products, systems and services provide sport fans high quality and sustainable lighting during games.
Signify illuminates many of the world’s stadiums: T-Mobile Park baseball field in Seattle, Wanda Metropolitano football stadium in Madrid and the world’s largest cricket stadium - the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, India.
Signify not only lights the pitches for the players and fans, the company also provides fast and reliable internet connectivity for sport reporters. Their Trulifi LiFi system provides stable internet through light waves which is free from interference as supposed to WiFi’s radio waves.