The project’s chief executive Mårten Hedlund says the project is currently inviting partners from around the world to help with its design, but that plans already feature a 100,000 square metre complex, the first stage of which will be completed in 2012. Hedlund and colleague Kent Widding Persson are the co-founders of the initiative.
“The new centre is all about sport on the terms and conditions of women,
individuals as well as entire teams, and within all sports,” says Hedlund. “You could say that women’s sport has always been based on male role figures, but scientists have now found that women need to train, eat and rest in different ways to men in order to avoid injury and improve performance levels.”
A non-profit organisation, called the World Village of Women Sports Foundation will receive and donate funds to research and visiting professorships.
Hedlund and Persson, say they want to put together a Board including representatives from the world’s biggest sports clubs and eminent scientists. The first Board will be elected in autumn 2009.
