Over 31 000 Europeans have received an organ transplant in 2013 and the number of people accepted into active treatment are at least ten fold. The serious illness leading to dialysis and/or eventually to organ transplantation is often several year long, physically and mentally stressful process. Physical rehabilitation alongside of psychological and social rehabilitation is proved to greatly enhance the quality of life of dialysis patients and organ transplant recipients.The European Transplant Sports Week (ETSW16) takes place in Vantaa, Finland 10th -17th July 2016. The ETSW16 is the biggest sports event in the world for persons with organ transplants in 2016. The ETSW16 comprises International Youth Camp, Sport for all - public events, Researcher Workshops and Transplant Sports Symposium. The events reach 1000-1500 organ transplant related participants and 10 000+ non-related local participants.The ETSW16 goals are: 1) To enhance social inclusion of organ transplant recipients by using sports in European and national level. 2) To promote equal opportunities and participation in organ transplant sport on European and national level. 3) To bring together European transplant sport and patient associations. 4) To raise awareness of organ transplant sport and health enhancing physical activities.The ETSW16 gathers European organ transplant recipients, dialysis patients, students, volunteers, families, medical and sport professionals and European transplant sport organisations together to promote organ transplant sports and organ transplantation. Events are targeted for all dialysis patients and organ transplant recipients in 65 European organisations.The ETSW16 local communication program reaches over 1 million people. On a European wide communication network, ETSW16 covers the estimated 10 million target persons.