Visiting the Unesco in Paris

At the end of July, Karen Petry, Alana Richardson and Sally-Ann Jennifer Fischer represented the UNESCO chair and the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies at UNESCO’s Change the Game Ministerial and Partner Forum.

On day 1, the Partners’ forum, we gained interesting insights from a range of sessions on the social impact of sport, investing in people and infrastructure, and innovating investments. On day 2, the Ministerial forum, 4 sessions focused on quality physical education and sport for sustainable social legacies, fighting racism, discrimination and hate speech: the role of sports teachers, gender equality in and through sport, and safe and equal sport. The forum also launched UNESCO’s new report ‘The Social Impact of Sport: unlocking the potential of sport to drive social transformations’. The report provides recommendations for policy-makers, academics, investors and sport stakeholders. As academics within the chair, we look forward to contributing to the calls for more evidence-based insights, research and collective action to #ChangeTheGame over the coming years.

More about the eventand the program "Change the Game".