The Minsk 2019 European Games Organising Committee (MEGOC) has unveiled its “Bright Team” project that has the aim of engaging the public with the event.

In particular, the scheme has the goal of involving more people in the 15 sports on the programme.

The Bright Team began its work over the weekend taking part in a beach soccer tournament at the city’s Beach Soccer Complex – which has been specially built inside two months for the Games in the Belarus capital – along with other amateur teams made up of applicants for volunteer roles, journalists, MEGOC Members etc.

The name of the team comes from the official Minsk 2019 motto “Bright Year, Bright You”. This in turn has been based on the letters BY, the first two letters, phonetically, that make up the word Belarus and also the internet country code domain for the nation.

Next friendly sport event on the “Bright” programme will be the 3on3 basketball, scheduled on 29 of August.

In total, more than 4,000 athletes from all 50 European National Olympic Committees will compete in Minsk on 21-30 June in 15 sports, 10 of which will be qualifying for Tokyo 2020.