The FISU Gender Equality Awards honours projects or individuals who have made significant efforts to advance and achieve gender equality within university sport in their country, continent or internationally.

Winners of the FISU Gender Equality Project will receive a grant of up to €5,000 (£4,280/$5,700), with the key criteria for selection based on sustainability and replicability.

Bethlehem University created The Walking Steps Challenge, which is designed to increase female participation in sport at the university and the importance of physical activity in Palestinian and Arab societies.

The University of New South Wales devised the UNSW 2025 Women's Sport and Active Recreation Strategy.

The scheme is a long-term project which focuses on four key pillars – participation, investment and infrastructure, marketing and promotion, and leadership and governance.

British Universities and Colleges Sport launched The FA University Women's Leadership Programme after identifying a gap in women's talent development pathway.

The project aims to play a major role in increasing the quantity and quality of female talent in the leadership pipeline to support the Football Association in assuring a diversely represented workforce.

University of Western Cape submitted the Female Student Athletes Support Program.

The overall objective of the project is to create space for women to exercise their rights and freedoms, get access and success to education through sport and be accepted by society as equal partners to men, it is claimed.

The project is targeted at girls and women that strive to use sport as a tool for their development and it was developed as one of the tools to address the legacy of women’s oppression that was created by the Apartheid regime.

The project is also aimed at educating and training young women to be independent and use their sporting talents to contribute meaningfully to society.