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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.

Registration for workshop "Spirit of Football"

For the third time, the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies organizes during the winter term 2019/2020 in cooperation with Engagement Global e.V., several events related to topics such as inequality and discrimination in sports media, the sustainable production of sports equipment or sport in the context...

Special interest weeks with Engagement Global in November 2019

Sport makes an important contribution to sustainable development in the sense of Agenda 2030. With the 17 goals for sustainable development, the member states of the United Nations committed themselves in 2015 to leave no one behind in their fight against poverty, discrimination and environmental pollution.

According to this,...

15th Forum of the European Network of Sport Education at the University of Vienna: Sport, Education, Society, Links & Solution.

More than 100 participants and presenters from all over the world joined the 15th Forum of the European Network of Sport Education (ENSE) in Vienna, Austria, which was held during the European Week of Sport on the 26th and 27th of September 2019. Researchers, practitioners and students met at the Institute for Sport Science at...

Jean Monnet Report 2018/2019

The Jean Monnet Report 2018/2019 is online. The Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies introduces the reader to the teaching and research activities as well as the additional activities and services carried out by the institute and the chair holder.