SPORT & EU

The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union has the pleasure to announce that Mr. Stanislas Frossard, from the Council of Europe, has confirmed his attendance to our annual conference in Lausanne. Sport&EU 2012 Conference will be held by the Swiss School of Public Administration on 21-22 June 2012. Mr Frossard will deliver his keynote address in the morning session of 22nd June.

Stanislas Frossard is the Executive Secretary of the « Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport », which is the intergovernmental platform of co-operation of the Council of Europe on Sports policies. Mr Frossard started in the Council of Europe as an Administrator, in charge of the Sports Conventions Unit (Anti-doping and Spectator Violence Conventions).

For more information on the conference programme and registration, please visit our website, where you can also read a full profile of our keynote speaker, Stanislas Frossard.

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The provisional programme for the 2012 Sport&EU Conference, to be held in Lausane 21-22 June 2012 is now available in the website.

A pre-conference event will be organised on 20th June and the conference will start in the morning of 21st June.

Click here to access the full programme.

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The registration for our 7^th Annual conference, to be held in Lausanne on 21-22 June 2012 is now open.

 This year, the conference is organised by the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, IDHEAP. The theme of the conference, ‘Towards a networked governance of sport’ promises to deliver high quality academic debates on the reality of sport just a few days before the inaugural ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. Sport&EU travels for the second time to continental Europe and Lausanne, the olympic city, promises to be the perfect host for our annual showcase event. The proximity of many international sport governing bodies ensures an enriching debate between academic and practitioners in issues pertaining to EU sports policy and law.

 The local organisers have managed to keep conference fees at a very reasonable level in comparison with similar events hosted in Switzerland. So please, recognise their effort and join us in Lausanne. Moreover, following Sport&EU’s traditional policy, we have secured preferential registration and accommodation rates for PhD student. We encourage PG students to join our debates in Lausanne this summer.

For full information on the conference programme, registration fees, travelling and accommodation, please visit our website.

 More information regarding the programme and guest speakers will be uploaded to the website, so we invite you to check it regularly. 

We would like to thank our local organisers, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, Madalina Diaconou and Jean-Loup Chappelet for their hospitality and their hard work in organising our 2012 Conference.

Please, come and join us in Lausanne. We look forward to seeing you in the Olympic capital.

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The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union is searching for candidates to organise its 8th annual conference in summer 2013. Given the success of past conferences and the good prospects of our upcoming conference in Lausanne in 2012, it is fair to say that Sport&EU’s annual conference is becoming a regular stop in the academic circuit. It is also particularly attractive for practitioners. Thus, local organisers certainly benefit from organising the event. If you are interested in organising our 2012 conference, please download the form and send it duly completed to Borja Garcia by email no later than 16 April 2012. Applications from outside the United Kingdom and southern european countries are especially welcome.

Download the application form.

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The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union (Sport&EU) invites the submission of paper and panel proposals to be considered for the 7^th annual conference entitled “Towards a Networked Governance in Sport” which will be held in Lausanne at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration between 21^st and 22^nd June 2012. The organisers would welcome proposals that address some of the main topics of the conference: 1) networked governance in sport; 2) Sport Betting: A transversal challenge; and 3) The Summer Olympics are back in Europe: The Games and EU Law. Papers and panels with an interdisciplinary approach are encouraged, whilst graduate students and emerging scholars are also urged to submit works in progress. Panels and papers that do not fall within the main themes will also be considered.

In line with Sport&EU’s traditional policy of promoting gender equality, female academics and/or practitioners are specially encouraged to send their proposals, and papers with a focus on gender equity in sport will be also welcome.

For single paper  proposals, send a 250 word abstract, together with a short biography and your contact details.

For panel proposals (maximum of 3 papers per panel) send (in a single document) a 250 word panel abstract, together with a 250 word abstract for each paper. Please also include a chair for the panel (if you cannot find a suitable chairperson we will allocate one) and a biographic note for each presenter.

All paper and panel proposals should be sent to Jean-Patrick Villeneuve at conference2012@sportandeu.com.  The deadline for submissions is 25^th January.

All papers submitted by this deadline will be peer reviewed with confirmation of successful applications provided by 27^th February.

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IDHEAP will host Sport&EU Conference in 2012.

The Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union is proud to announce that our 7th Annual Conference will be organised by the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) in Lausanne (Switzerland). The conference is scheduled on the 21st and 22nd June 2012. This is the second time that Sport&EU travels outside the United Kingdom and it will be the first time that our annual conference is organised outside the European Union, in recognition to the interest that European sporting issues have beyond the physical borders of the EU. The summer of 2012 will be packed with high level sporting events across our continent. Football’s EURO 2012 will reach the knock-out stages of the tournament by the time delegates meet in Switzerland, and a few weeks later London will host the summer Olympic Games. With the new European Sports policy starting to develop, and a few decisions of the Court of Justice due between now and the conference, there will be plenty of issues to discuss. As always, Sport&EU will welcome researchers, academics, PhD students and practitioners with an interest in sport and the EU to participate in our annual conference, which is now becoming one of the important dates in the conference circuit. Please reserve these dates in your diary, as we would like to see as many of you as possible in Lausanne. In due course, a call for papers and panels will be made public through the website, so please log in regularly to get the latest information about Sport&EU, our annual conference and all our events.

With the selection of Lausanne as host for our annual conference, we also expect to attract significant practitioners and officials from public administration, to engage in meaningful debates on the future of the EU and sport. Commenting on the decision to take the conference to the premises of IDHEAP, Sport&EU honorary chair, Professor Richard Parrish commented: ‘We are delighted to be taking our annual conference to Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference will offer our members the opportunity to further explore the complexities of international sports governance and regulation in a country very closely connected to sport. We would like to congratulate our hosts, IDHEAP, for putting together an exceptional conference proposal closely rivalled by other truly outstanding applications from other members’.

The local organising committee will be headed by Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, Assistant Professor at IDHEAP and a regular attendee of Sport&EU conferences. Jean-Patrick commented on the award to host the conference: ‘We are thrilled to be hosting the next Sport & EU conference at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration. We hope to see all of you in Lausanne, the Olympic capital and home to numerous international sport organisations. On the eve of the London 2012 Olympics, this will be the perfect venue to discuss issues of Sport & EU’

Spoprt&EU would like to thank the interest of many outstanding academic institutions in organising our 2012 conference. We received a good number of outstanding proposals. The Sport&EU Committee would like to congratulate all the applicants for the extreme good quality of their proposals, which made the decision very difficult to take. We would like to encourage the unsuccessful applicants to consider applying again (in due course) to host our 2013 conference. Similarly, we would like to encourage all our members to consider the possibility of applying to host Sport&EU in the future. Please contact us if you want to discuss the details of organising a Sport&EU conference.

Finally, Sport&EU would like to thank the local organising committee, headed by Jean-Patrick Villeneuve and with the support of Dr Madalina Diaconu and Professor Jean-Loup Chappelet. They presented an outstanding application and we are sure that they will deliver an exceptional conference. We look forward to seeing many of you in Lausanne in June 2012.

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The programme for the 6th Annual Conference of Sport&EU is now finalised. We are honoured to welcome the Guardian’s David Conn to open proceedings as our keynote speaker. David Conn will evaluate the current state of football governance in the United Kingdom and Europe. There is a full research programme with a total of 19 interesting papers divided in 6 research panels. The conference programme is available in this website through this link, and also clicking on the link in the right sidebar. Similarly, paper abstracts are also available in the section, ‘Speakers’. You can access through this link or by clicking on the right hand side bar menu.

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The traditional dinner of the 2011 Sport&EU conference will take place in Le Mistral Bistro & Cafe, a very welcoming restaurant  in Nottingham City Centre. The Conference dinner, on the evening of 30th June, is always a pleasant social event for all the conference delegates.

Le Mistral in Nottingham City Centre is located in a quiet courtyard oasis just off the Market Square. It’s a real escape from the busy streets of the city. A converted warehouse, the buildings’ character adds real atmosphere to the great food and drink on offer. There’s seating for around 70 people on two floors.

Le Mistral’s motto is “Slow food in a Fast World” and is reflected in their approach to their cuisine: good quality food prepared and cooked from fresh using the best ingredients. The menu is seasonal and can change daily according to the freshest ingredients available at the time. Many of their ingredients are sourced directly from the Rungis Market in Paris. Expect an innovative twist on classic French dishes.

Do not forget to reserve the conference dinner when registering for the conference. More information about registration can be found here.

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The provisional programme of the 6th Annual Conference is now taking shape. We can now confirm that The Guardian’s David Conn will be our guest speaker, presenting on Thursday 30 June at 9.45 am. David will start proceedings in what promise to be two days full on interesting activities. You can see more details on the provisional programme through this link.

David Conn is an award-winning writer for the Guardian newspaper and author of two acclaimed books chronicling English football’s commercial transformation: The Football Business (1997) and The Beautiful Game? Searching for the Soul of Football (2004). He has earned a reputation as the foremost journalist critically investigating football’s structure and governance, as well as ownership and takeover sagas at individual clubs. David has been a key critic of the Premier League’s free market approach, which has opened clubs to speculation by investors looking to make personal fortunes, and he has argued for collective principles in football. He has always been a strong advocate of supporter representation at clubs, and continues to argue, in the era of billionaires, that clubs should ideally be mutually owned by their supporters, and be primarily community organisations. 

David qualified first as a lawyer before embarking on a career in journalism. He has written for all England’s broadsheet newspapers on a range of issues including football, and made documentaries for BBC television and radio. He wrote a weekly investigative column for the Independent for six years before moving to the Guardian in 2005. He was last year voted UK sports news reporter of the year by the Sports Journalists Association, an award he also won in 2005. He has been named football writer of the year by the Football Supporters Federation three times, in 2002, 2005 and 2009.

For more details about the conference, please visit our website. Registration is now open and you will also be able to find details about accomodation and travel to Nottingham.

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Registration for the 6th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union, to be held at Nottingham Trent University on 30th June and 1st July 2011, is now open via this link

The conference is provisionally scheduled to commence at 09.30 on 30th June and close at 15.00 on 1st July.

For more information on the programme and the provisional programme please follow this link.

The conference will take place in the University’s Newton Building on the City Campus, close to Nottingham City Centre (Number 22 on the University’s map)

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