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Sport for Development Resource Toolkit

The toolkit provides detailed information about the "Sport for Development" (S4D) approach, its strategies and methods.

Sport in the context of international cooperation and development

Now available: Volume 1 (ed. Karen Petry) published on 30.03.2020 by Barbara Budrich.

Workshop Playing Fields at the German Footballmuseum in Dortmund

Workshop Bolzplatz (playing fields) at the German Footballmuseum on 6th of März 2020

POLIS-Workshop at German Sport University 6.-7. Feb. 2020

Title: Polity, Politics and Policies of Sport at the local level: Comparing European cities and municipalities

Symposium on Ruhr and NRW sports policy: Jan. 2020 in Bochum

The debate about the application for "Rhine-Ruhr City 2032" is currently leading to lively discussions about the importance of sport in the Ruhr area and in NRW. The symposium aims to reappraise the historical development of sport in this region.

Conference: Sino-European Perspectives on Urban Sport and Health Development

The Research Unit Sport Policy China-Europe of the Institute for European Sport Development and Leisure Research invites to its annual conference entitled " Sino-European Perspectives on Urban Sport and Health Development" on 19-20 December 2019.

Venue: Senatssaal, German Sports University Cologne

Guest Lecture Prof. Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, 11.12.2019

Prof. Lindholm, an expert in sports law at Umeå University in Sweden, will join us on Wednesday, the 11th of December, for a guest lecture, covering the jurisprudence and case-law of the supreme dispute resolution body in sport, CAS.

Guest Lecture with Paulina Tomczyk (EU Athletes)

The General Secretary of EU Athletes will visit us on the 27th November to talk about and to discuss chances and challenges of athlete representation on the European level.

Von globaler Ungleichheit zu Fairplay?

Spannende Podiumsdiskussion zur Nachhaltigkeit in der Produktion von Sportartikeln im Rahmen der Themenwochen Sport.Global.Nachhaltig.

Final report of ERASMUS+ Project "Player Agents" published

Der Abschlussbericht des ERASMUS+ Projektes "Promoting and Supporting Good Governance in the European Football Agents Industry" ist am 1.11.2019 in Manchester offiziell vorgestellt und veröffentlicht worden.