Governance seminar presentations now available for download

Under the title 'The Challenge for Europe in the Governance of Sport', leading experts on sports governance from five different EU-funded governance projects presented their findings yesterday at a seminar in Brussels.

The seminar was hosted by Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Studies and marked the conclusion of the project 'Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations (AGGIS)'.

It provided a platform to reveal the final findings of the project and to launch the 'Sports Governance Observer' -  a tool to measure transparency, democracy and accountability in international sports organisations.

At the seminar, four similar projects presented their contributions to better governance in sport and, along with representatives of the Olympic movement and the international federations, took part in the debate.

The four projects were presented by the European Olympic Committees (EOC), Supporters Direct, Sport & Recreation Alliance and the International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA). 

The speakers at the seminar have kindly shared their presentations.

Below, you can find the presentations from the AGGIS group as well as presentations from the four other EU funded projects on governance and SportAccord: 

• AGGIS presentation: The current status of international sports governance Results of a test study by AGGIS-partners among international federations in 2012Arnout Geeraert, PhD student, KU Leuven, BelgiumJens Alm, analyst, Danish Institute for Sports Studies, DenmarkMichael Groll, scientific co-worker, German Sports University Cologne, Germany 

• AGGIS presentation: Existing sport governance frameworks and principlesMichael Mrkonjic, PhD student, IDHEAP, Lausanne, Switzerland 

• AGGIS presentation: What is good governance?Barrie Houlihan, professor, University of Loughborough, UKHans Bruyninckx, professor, HIVA, KU Leuven, Belgium 

• Sport 4 Good GovernanceFolker Hellmund, head of the EU Office of the European Olympic CommitteesGabi Freytag, Director of the Leadership Academy of DOSB, Germany 

• “Better Boards, Stronger Sport”Mikkel Larsen, governance administrator, Sport and Recreation Alliance, UK 

• Good Governance in Grassroots SportSaska B. Tomat, project manager, International Sport and Culture Association, DenmarkSylvia Schenk, board member, Transparency International Germany 

• Improving football governance through supporter involvement and community ownershipAntonia Hagemann, Head of European Development, Supporters Direct, UK 

• International Sports Federations: Better Governance, Jeopardized Autonomy?Ingrid Beutler, Director, Integrity Unit, SportAccord, Switzerland 

See also the Opening Speech by Jens Sejer Andersen, international director of Play the Game

See the full seminar programme

For more information on the Governance seminar, the Sports Governance Observer and the AGGIS project visit the project website www.aggis.eu